Sentences with phrase «endangering people and the environment»

«Closing valves on major pipelines can have unexpected consequences endangering people and the environment.

Not exact matches

The punishments for Evans and Cisse may spark a transition, because in any logical environment a challenge which seriously endangers the well - being of a person should always be dealt with more severely than a spit.

«Focusing on solving the major environmental problems that seriously endanger people's health, (China) investigated and punished harshly illegal pollution and environmental crimes, so as to safeguard people's right to a healthy and clean environment,» it said.

In January, the school council at Boothroyd Primary Academy also hosted its own version of «Question Time» by interviewing MP Paula Sherriff on how her role supports the people of Dewsbury, and by asking what more could be done to save the local and wider environment as well as endangered animals.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Hogan travels to the most endangered environments, striving to save critically endangered fish and the livelihood of people who share their habitats.

Fans of the polar bear, and people concerned about the environment, won a major victory in May 2008 when the big, white bears were listed as a «threatened species» under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

China has banned the solid waste imports because they claim that they «seriously endangered people's physical health and the safety of our country's ecological environment,» but it is creating new problems for everyone; in the West, there is nowhere to put all the waste, much of which came from China in the first place.

Stress is defined clearly by Folkman (1984) as «the relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and as endangering his or her well being».