Though the price tag will be steep, we can't afford oil's environmental, economic and political drawbacks any longer.

"True Cost" forced consumers to compare the human labor cost and conditions and environmental drawbacks of products to the sales costs.

For all their environmental drawbacks, he said, the chemicals do work: yields from fields treated with them are improved by 20 percent.

All, however, have environmental drawbacks of some kind.

However, this is likely to have the same environmental drawbacks as salmon farming.

At the company's annual meeting two months ago in Atlanta, he acknowledged the environmental and safety drawbacks of sport utilities.

This alchemy, however, is not without its own environmental drawback.

The rapporteur dutifully refers to the need for scientific research, the environmental drawbacks, alternative funding, development aid and the disadvantages for the countries involved.

Taken together, Ford's plans represent the broadest commitment so far by any automaker to address the safety and environmental drawbacks of sport utilities.

For decades scientists have been trying to come up with materials that can perform as well as plastic without the environmental drawbacks.