Sentences with phrase «cleaning up the river»

Lee widened roads, dug canals, cleared slums, erected high - quality public housing estates, herded the satay and chicken - rice vendors cluttering the sidewalks into spacious food courts, cleaned up rivers, planted trees and zealously fined citizens, especially the superstitious who believed in ejecting the «evil spirits» lurking in one's throat, who splattered Singapore's roads with spit.

The lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan, want Cuomo to work with G.E. to continue cleaning up the river after the company finishes its six - year dredging project to remove PCBs on a 40 - mile stretch of the river.

It was to clean up the river,» said Bertha Lewis, a social justice activist and longtime ally of Mr. de Blasio's.

The Ohio EPA worked to clean up the river in the following decades, and the water quality has improved dramatically — so much so that in 1998, Cuyahoga was recognized as one of 14 American Heritage Rivers.

From 1998 to 2006, most of the Superfund site's cleanup money — about $ 100 million — went toward cleaning up the river.

But how do you clean up a river?

I wouldn't send my dog Tasha to go swim in it, but the Yarkon River gives an enormous amount of pleasure to people on the weekends, especially in the area of Tel Aviv where it joins a large park.In the past few years, environmental awareness has been gaining speed in Israel and true to the nature of the region, everything including the environment (and cleaning up rivers) is a political issue.

«These new standards will not only clean up our rivers and streams, but require polluters for the first time to report dumping so that communities will know what's going into their water and be empowered to take action to clean it up.»

Not exact matches

Beartooth Capital Partners Based in Bozeman, Montana, Beartooth Capital buys ranch land and cleans it up, restoring rivers and planting grass to make the ranches more animal and buyer friendly.

For example, the multi-national corporation is still fighting an EPA mandate that it clean up the Housatonic River in Western Massachusetts.

For instance, Navius found that households in the Peace River region could save up to $ 1200 a year by 2030 on energy costs by switching to cleaner and more efficient vehicles, home heating and energy sources.

Conventional clean - up equipment such as skimmers and oil booms proved useless in recovering the large amounts of submerged oil that now covers an area of river bottom estimated to be approximately 200 acres.

Households in the Peace River region could save up to $ 1200 a year by 2030 on energy costs by switching to cleaner and more efficient vehicles, home heating and energy sources.

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

Oh there is plenty of negativity around, atheists don't have a corner on that; — RRB -... the loving, kind, altruistic atheists aren't posting on discussion boards; they're reading to kids, planting trees, teaching classes, cleaning up litter, rescuing dogs and rivers and forests and bad neighborhoods.

The NSW government will introduce cash for containers recycling, with Premier Mike Baird writing to the beverages industry last week to invite companies to get on board and help clean up the state's beaches, parks and rivers.

If you're feeling like giving back this Saturday morning, consider joining the 3,000 other volunteers as they clean up the Charles River.

As part of the Spring Big Sweep, local soil and water conservation districts sponsor numerous clean - up days at creeks, lakes, streams and wetlands that flow into area rivers.

These statistics from single - day clean - ups at specific beaches in Chicago demonstrate how many plastic straws are being left behind here in Chicago, polluting Lake Michigan and the Chicago River.

New York state lawmakers have included $ 40 million dollars in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

New York State lawmakers have included $ 40 million in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Local officials, environmental advocates and residents demanded that the EPA take more action to clean up the Hudson River from contamination by General Electric during a meeting in Saratoga Springs last night.

The Bronx River is getting $ 5 million in clean - up funds, part of settlement with several Westchester County towns accused dumping raw sewage into the rRiver is getting $ 5 million in clean - up funds, part of settlement with several Westchester County towns accused dumping raw sewage into the riverriver.

He founded the organization Clearwater in the 1970s with the goal of cleaning up the Hudson River.

«We hear they want to cut it by 31 percent and decimate programs to clean up the Great Lakes and get PCBs out of the Hudson River.

«We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the Buffalo River but because of combined sewage overflows and the like, we're repolluting those waterways.»

It also provides $ 300 million annually for continuing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program that has been used to clean up the Buffalo River, restore the lake sturgeon to Buffalo Niagara's waters and improve recreation opportunities for beach - goers.

«Whether it's lowering the cost of living, forcing polluters to clean up the Hudson River, or helping victims of Lyme Disease, I look forward to taking on these challenges and delivering results for the people of the Hudson Valley.»

With the potential for the Hudson River to become a major oil transportation corridor, there's concern from environmentalists as to how complicated cleaning up a spill on the river woulRiver to become a major oil transportation corridor, there's concern from environmentalists as to how complicated cleaning up a spill on the river woulriver would be.

Big news for Bronx environmental advocates: the Attorney General is giving $ 2 million to borough organizations to help them in their efforts to clean up the pollution in the Bronx River.

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

Cuomo administration officials argued at the time of their vote on the loan in July that they needed the money to clean up water pollution in the Hudson river, where the bridge is being built.

New York's governor should push General Electric to clean up the Hudson River pollution it caused, environmentalists say.

Fifty years ago this month, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller assured visiting President Lyndon Baines Johnson that the Buffalo River would be «all cleaned up» by 1970.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a third meeting about the review of the Hudson River Superfund clean - up project.

ALBANY — A group of Senate Democrats and one Republican are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pressure General Electric to do more to clean up PCBs that the company dumped in the Hudson River for decades.

Critics have warned that stripping money from a fund intended for infrastructure improvements like sewer repairs and river clean - up to build a bridge could set a national precedent if it is copied by lawmakers in other states.

The federal government gave the company a favorable deal for the clean - up of a river the company polluted, saving Alcoa millions of dollars, according to WWNY - TV.

His campaign also called Monday for General Electric to fully clean up the Hudson River, into which it dumped more than 1 million pounds of PCBs over the years.

Just last month, the New York Times harshly criticized GE for refusing to finish cleaning up the toxic PCB's it dumped in the Hudson River, and Governor Cuomo for letting GE off the hook.

One of the lousy things about living in New York City is that it is difficult to get away: The journey across potholed Brooklyn streets, backed - up East River bridges, and highways ablaze with brake lights can take a good two hours before you reach the world of clean air and open trails.

It worked for cleaning up a wastewater site at Savannah River, though nobody actually showed up to dine on the end product.

Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.

The Chinese government announced in December 2001 that it would spend 40 billion yuan ($ 4.8 billion) by 2010 on projects to clean up the Three Gorges and upstream stretches of the river.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

It's unclear how the bankruptcy would affect sediment removal on the river, but Spoelstra said it would likely put another significant obstacle in the already slow road to cleaning up the site.

A deeper understanding of the various factors controlling uranium mobility could potentially lead to better ways of cleaning up the nation's legacy of contamination from uranium mining and processing, and may help researchers devise new remediation strategies for contaminated sites in the upper Colorado River basin and elsewhere.

He also wants to see the heavily polluted river cleaned up.

For her ninth - grade class, she divided students into two teams, General Electric and the Waterkeeper Alliance, to debate who should clean up PCBs in the Hudson River.

Farsighted civic leaders have cleaned up downtown, rebuilt substandard housing, and dedicated the $ 45 million freshwater Tennessee Aquarium on the banks of the snaking Tennessee River.