In an environment of severe budget constraint and at a time when policymakers are considering both budget and tax reform, is it time to rethink the role of charities and other non-profits?
Chevron is also engaged in the exploration and production in neighboring Poland and Romania but has faced opposition from groups who argue that shale gas extraction, which involves hydraulic fracturing (fracking), has severe consequences on the environment.
The filters "world reduce the amount of radioactive material released into the environment" in a severe nuclear accident, Boxer wrote in a letter signed by 11 fellow Democrats.
In densely populated Haiti, the degradation of the environment has been so severe that only a handful of species are known for certain to still be viable in the country and even they are in trouble, said S. Blair Hedges, a biology professor at Pennsylvania State University who has studied frogs in the Caribbean since the 1980s.
Image damage from "no" votes could be severe in today's turbulent corporate governance environment, so companies must now become far more assertive in explaining how their top executives are paid.
"The security environment surrounding our country is increasingly becoming more severe as we face provocation to our territorial rights, " he told self-defence forces in a tour of Okinawa region.
Assembly Environment Minister Carwyn Jones visited flood hit communities at Trefriw and Llanrwst January after the area was hit by severe flooding for the second time in under a year.