Sentences with phrase «of damage to the environment»

Recall that the Economic Community Of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice had in December 2012 ordered the government to hold oil companies and other perpetrators of the environmental damage accountable, ensure reparation for the collective harm done to the communities; restore within the shortest possible time the environment of the Niger Delta; and prevent the occurrence of damage to the environment.

In this lesson students will explore some of the causes and consequences of damage to the environment.

Within a decade consumers will be able to see which companies cause the most amount of damage to the environment if plans suggested by the man in charge of the UN's Green Economy Initiative are approved.

Not paying the cost of damage to the environment is a subsidy, just as not paying the full costs of workers would be... American firms are being subsidized — and massively so.

Courts must also consider the new enumerated «aggravating factors» when sentencing companies convicted of regulatory offences, including whether the offence caused damage or risk of damage to the environment or to «any unique, rare, particularly important or vulnerable component of the environment.»

The increase in traffic congestion has done a great deal of damage to the environment and health of the island.

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In February 2018, 3M reached an agreement with the State of Minnesota that resolved the previously disclosed Natural Resource Damages (NRD) lawsuit filed by the State against the Company related to certain PFCs present in the environment.

The three cases cover deals inked in different circumstances and with different parties, but they are all trying to shield Trump and stop potentially damaging information — alleged affairs in the case of Daniels and McDougal, and an alleged toxic work environment in another — from being made public.

Why is it necessary to damage the environment in order to make energy - inefficient products that will break and be disposed of in a year or two?

You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is oil — yet the clean energy sector provides more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

The in situ method is more costly than the mining method, but it is much less damaging to the environment, requiring only a few hundred meters of land and a nearby water source to operate.

Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson has withdrawn his nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs amid damaging allegations that he created a toxic work environment, drunkenly wrecked a car and maintained poor prescription records while serving in the federal government.

[13] This said, in animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material environment).

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

Man has evolved from being closely connected to our environment, i.e. understanding the lunar and solar cycle, and creating a living off of what this earth offers to us to creating a living off the earth by damaging our environment and less and less of us knowing anything about the celestial bodies that surround us.

Without using such in proportion to character then damage can occur and charismatic environments can lend themselves unhealthily to a celebration of «gifts» rather than wisdom in using them and maturing in character.

As a business owner in renewable energy, I'd wager to say that most business - minded environmentalist think ethanol subsidies are a giant waste of money and damage the environment to boot.

It is a better prospect than continuation of the trend of the 1980s, but many of us think it is still too large and will extend the damage to the already beleagured Australian environment, unless Australians discover ways of making a smaller environmental impact than they do at present.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

He clearly opposes the present steps toward the globalization of the economy, for he believes that it will damage the poor in developing countries, reduce the political will to upgrade welfare in the United States, make it more and more difficult for political power to control the corporations, and most particularly exacerbate those pressures for growth that will degrade the environment.

ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.

«We know that this type of non-biodegradable plastic is having a detrimental impact on the environment and oceans, and for us it's crucial that we play our role in helping to prevent any further damage.»

The overpopulation of the Axis Deer are a threat to both the the environment and agriculture in the islands, as the deer spread invasive plants, cause erosion, and damage ecosystems.

Ten months later Cox sued the NFL for undisclosed damages for forcing him to play in a racially hostile environment; the sides eventually settled out of court, with the league paying Cox's legal fees.

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

Okay so a train journey may only take a couple of hours, but when you think how many flights Arsenal take every month, I think that this one will do a lot less damage to the environment than most of their journeys.

Items that are handmade in small quantities are less damaging to our environment than mass - produced items made in large factories on the other side of the world.

Our infographic below takes a look at the rise in awareness of keeping the environment clean, gives tips for undoing the damage, and gives advice for making the switch to eco-friendly products.

Regular spates of truanting, depression and aggression by British schoolchildren shows what serious damage can be done to a sensitive child when the environment is not appropriate.

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We can't forget that the majority of ground beef in the United States, even if free of said «slime», comes from animals (35 million beef cattle, to be exact) that are treated miserably, is processed by employees under horrible working conditions, and severely damages the environment.

When ordering sole custody, the court can consider the conduct, marital status, income, social environment or lifestyle of either party only if it is shown that these factors are causing or may cause damage to the child.

As the world celebrates World Environment Day on June 5, WABA would like to remind everyone about the ecological benefits of breastfeeding and that the practice of bottle feeding including the production of breastmilk substitutes and baby foods are non - renewable products that create ecological damage at every stage of their production, distribution and use.

Britain's # 50 Billion chemical industry has stated fracking for shale gas is of economic importance to the country, will protect jobs and can be done in a safe way that does not damage the environment.

The coalition government is conscious of the fact that such an unpopular tax rise would be highly damaging to public support in an environment where public spending is being drastically cut back.

«No matter what side of the aisle you're on, we all have a significant responsibility to protect our environment from avoidable damage,» she said.

The scheme was abandoned by the succeeding Labour government in 1974 on grounds of soaring costs and damage to the environment.

In 2010 and 2011, Ad Astra, an association of Romanian scientists, and the Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation sent petitions in response to the project's potential damaging effects on the environment.

Furthermore, Article 8 (2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalizes «intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long - term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated.»

Prosecutors on Poland's Baltic coast have opened a probe into potential damage to the environment of the Bay of Gdansk after the sewage system in this coast city malfunctioned and the refuse was dumped into the bay.

Plastic bags pose hazards to wildlife and pollute our lands and bays, while paper bags damage the environment through the cost of their production.

In a statement to MPs, waste and recycling minister Joan Ruddock said: «The case for reducing the amount of waste we all produce is clear - it is damaging the environment and contributing to climate change.

Under the new system, the cost of damage caused to the environment will be added to the cost of every project before deciding on which scheme to pursue, thereby encouraging more environmentally - projects to be chosen.

Opponents of fracking will not be credible unless they are prepared to build large - scale renewables projects and damage the environment in the process, Tim Farron has told Politics.co.uk.

Opponents of fracking will not be credible unless they are prepared to build large - scale renewables projects and damage the environment, Tim Farron tells Politics.co.uk

His claims echo those made last week by the former minister Leighton Andrews who alleged that a «toxic» environment in the Welsh Government during the 2011 - 16 Assembly was «damaging» to the mental health of ministers such as Mr Sargeant.

«Apart from the disruption of normal oil flow across the pipelines and loss in revenue, this economic crime has on many occasions resulted in deadly fire and oil spillage that have claimed many lives and damage to the environment in several communities.

'' We hereby urge all indigenes of the region to explore the concept to discourage those factors that have caused gross damage to the environment and the oil and gas sector.