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Defining environmental risks and `Uncertainty` under the sarbanes-oxley act of 2002
Find out how Marsh's Strategic Environmental Risk Assessment (SERA) process helps corporations protect assets and create value by recognizing, evaluating, and managing enterprise risk. THE ENVIRONMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT To meet these new challenges and obligations, the risk management profession has developed a strategic process that allows companies to distinguish and manage their exposures ...
By AHC Group
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Environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals: Regulatory developments
Concern about the potential environmental impact of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment was first expressed over 30 years ago. It is therefore surprising that there is still so little current regulation requiring environmental risk assessments to be undertaken on human pharmaceuticals. Particularly in view of the rapid development in legislation, that has taken place in many ...
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Exploring the environmental information in sell-side analysts' research reports
This study shows how environmental information is used by financial analysts when valuing companies. Unlike the previous studies on analysts' perceptions, we use content analysis to examine the actual use of environmental information in valuations. Research reports from large investment banks in the USA and Europe are collected. The sample consists of reports from two industries, oil and ...
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Increasing Environmental Commitment in Supply Chain Performance Management
In 2015, China reinforced its environmental policies and laws, strengthening air and water pollution controls. Trend toward Environmental Commitment Almost immediately, polluters found themselves subject to litigation, for example, a group of chemical companies subjected to compensation demands for about US$26 million (1). China is supporting victims of air and water pollution by actively ...
By SGS
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Risk–based land use planning around hazardous chemical installations
This paper presents a framework for supporting land use planning decisions around hazardous chemical facilities taking risk into consideration. The proposed methodology contains all the steps that a planner needs to fully define the problem based on multi–criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and incorporating the needs of major local stakeholders. The decision is supported by the generation of the ...
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Development of a framework to translate environmental risk assessment outputs into socioeconomic analysis inputs when developing Restrictions under REACH
The aim of this project, which was undertaken for ECHA’s Risk Assessment Committee, was to develop instructive examples for translating environmental risks into environmental impacts which can be practically used to inform SEA and eventual decision making under REACH. Specific project objectives were: To identify two substances for use as examples in this project. These were: ...
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Towards a harmonised approach for environmental assessment of human activities in the marine environment
With a foreseen increase in maritime activities, and driven by new policies and conventions aiming at sustainable management of the marine ecosystem, spatial management at sea is of growing importance. Spatial management should ensure that the collective pressures caused by anthropogenic activities on the marine ecosystem are kept within acceptable levels. A multitude of approaches to ...
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Environmental Management Planning for Small Business
What is a business environmental management plan? A business environmental management plan is a list of actions or activities that a business intends to undertake to address the environmental impacts of its operations. In general, an environmental management plan is designed to achieve a business environmental objectives/goals for the purpose of improving its environmental performance.The ...
By Trade Wash
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Environmental damage: what to quantify, prevent and insure
The Environmental Responsibility of the various economic agents operating in Spain has already been required for the last two years with the passing of Law 26/2007 of 26 October on Environmental Responsibility. Also, its partial development, as defined by Regulation 2090/2008 of 22 December, has helped to better know the environmental damages repair projects contents. Over the next year, one of ...
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Fluoroquinolones in the Wenyu River Catchment, China: Occurrence simulation and risk assessment
Concern is increasing regarding the environmental impact of the high usage rate and intensive release of antibiotics used for human and animal therapy in major urban areas of China. In this study, regional environmental distribution simulation and risk assessment for three commonly used fluoroquinolones in the Wenyu River Catchment were conducted using a typical catchment model widely used in ...
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Uncertainty adjustments to deterministic atmospheric dispersion models
Atmospheric Dispersion Models (ADMs) are routinely used in environmental impact assessment, risk analysis, and source apportionment studies. There are a variety of such computational ADMs, but these models usually only provide deterministic predictions or estimation of uncertainty. By introducing error components in ADMs, we formulate statistical modelling to obtain more precise prediction. These ...
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Interview with Mary C. McKiel - 2013 Chairman of the ASTM International Board of Directors
As standards executive for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mary C. McKiel, Ph.D., brings expertise both in government service and in standards development to her term as 2013 chairman of the ASTM International board. Here she talks about federal use of consensus standards, incorporation by reference and other challenges and opportunities at the intersection of government and standards ...
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What to do about the antidepressants, antibiotics and other drugs in our water
As pharmaceuticals taint rivers and lakes, scientists search for solutions. There’s no way around it, the headlines are disturbing. And they come, not from tabloids or click-bait blogs, but from papers published in scientific journals. They describe fish and birds responding with altered behavior and reproductive systems to antidepressants, diabetes medication, and other psychoactive or ...
By Ensia
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Environmental Impact does NOT equal risk
Auditing the new ISO 14001:2015: Environment Impacts does not equal Risk In recent transition audits, there has been one common misconception that I have seen repeated, and that is that environmental impacts are risks. This is not correct. Environmental impacts do not equal risk. Let’s start with the definition of environmental impact from the ISO 14001:2015 standard. “3.2.4 ...
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Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
Why Your Railroad Facility Needs One and What to do About It Did you know that that railroad facilities are subject to the Clean Water Act? This includes requirements to have a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) in place to clarify how you will control pollutants in storm water runoff from your facility. A SWPPP will identify the potential sources of pollution and describe the ...
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Yorkshire Water Develops Environmental Profit and Loss Account Case Study
The EP&L was created in partnership with Trucost, the global leader in natural capital valuation. By putting a monetary value on positive and negative environmental impacts, companies can better manage the challenges posed by climate change, resource scarcity and a growing population. Yorkshire Water wanted to investigate the potential of natural capital valuation to deliver insights for its ...
By Trucost Plc
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The four biggest challenges facing UST operations and what to do about them
The current trend towards consolidation in the retail petroleum marketplace is creating momentum for companies to acquire assets much more rapidly than ever before. Strong asset valuations are driving smaller portfolio sell-offs, and the industry continues to see an influx of capital from companies who wish to invest in the US. With each new acquisition, however, there are increasing ...
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The four biggest challenges facing UST operations and what to do about them
The current trend towards consolidation in the retail petroleum marketplace is creating momentum for companies to acquire assets much more rapidly than ever before. Strong asset valuations are driving smaller portfolio sell-offs, and the industry continues to see an influx of capital from companies who wish to invest in the US. With each new acquisition, however, there are increasing ...
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