Sentences with phrase «environmental nightmare»

«This was the biggest manmade health and environmental nightmare in the City of New York,» Oddo said.

SHANGHAI — For over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam — the world's largest — had the potential of becoming one of China's biggest environmental nightmares.

Dear EarthTalk: Isn't spray sunscreen a health and environmental nightmare when it seems that more of the sunscreen ends up going up my nose than on the kid at the beach next to me?

There are two tragedies in the Chevron case, writes Jennifer Wells: the environmental nightmare delivered upon the Huaorani people and the case itself.

It helps stop people from faster mining but is an environmental nightmare.

Which is an environmental nightmare of carbon dioxide, ammonia, sulfides and methane gases, contributing greatly to climate change and the pollution of the water table.

An industry in the spotlight It is easy to condemn the plastic sea of greenhouses in Almería, Spain as an environmental nightmare.

«I've seen the port grow from being sort of an interesting place to an environmental nightmare,» said Dr. John G. Miller, an emergency room doctor and an environmental activist who has treated large numbers of harbor - area children suffering asthma attacks and adults suffering heart attacks.

Since the 1970s, the massive port complex has exploded to five times its original size, transforming the surrounding area into what one local physician called «an environmental nightmare.»

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

They are also an environmental nightmare.

Ridding the Earth of Plastic From boom to bust, the reputation of plastics since World War II has gone from revolutionary dream invention to environmental nightmare.

This has become our environmental nightmare that we must defeat by all means,» Kenya's environment minister Judy Wakhungu told the BBC.

Forego the bottled water (it's an environmental nightmare and a financial scam) and drink it from the tap.

You may have seen Hyperion Power's promotion of using its portable nuclear power units to power tar sands mining operations, and how I put forth the idea that really this is only one factor in why tar sands extraction is an environmental nightmare.

New York City is an environmental nightmare This myth has been debunked many times, most recently by author David Owen, in his New Yorker article titled «Green Manhattan.»

China has the biggest shale - gas reserves in the world and would dearly like to unleash an American - style fracking boom (which is its own kind of environmental nightmare, of course).

Comparing the environmental nightmare of tar sands production to the human rights horror of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia or the repression of dissent in Iran?

Beauty salons are a bit of an environmental nightmare.

Of course, it's not cool Especially not when so - called clean coal technologies are decades away at best, and retrieving the stuff from the ground creates an environmental nightmare like no other.