Sentences with phrase «flooding after the environment»

Mr Pickles has taken charge of the government's response to flooding after the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson required emergency eye surgery.

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Shelley Mayer has been a vigorous advocate for the protection of our environment, cosponsoring a bill that prohibited oil barges from anchoring in the Hudson River and securing $ 3 million for flood mitigation aid after Hurricane Sandy.

The state Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Babatunde Adejare, who spoke on Sunday after inspecting areas affected by the flood, assured residents that the government had activated its emergency response system to respond efficiently where necessary.

After water purification, one of the most important regulating services of páramo... environments is flood control,» said Daniel Ruiz, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Antioquia School of Engineering and researcher at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

I started out by acknowledging that growth around prospering cities, even in hazardous environments, often feels «impossible but inevitable,» alluding to a line from the geographer Peirce Lewis that I first read in Peter Applebome's fine coverage of the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The science or environment ministers of one nation after another told us of how they are suffering already from droughts, typhoons, flooding and sea level rise which have set back their development by years or decades.

One day after flood watches were issued Monday by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resourses Canada, the counties of Lethbridge and Medicine Hat have declared a state of emergency and are preparing for the rising waters.