Sentences with phrase «over waste dumping»
Initially Esposito was due to face Republican Anthony Senft, but he dropped out of the race in the midst of a controversy over waste dumping in a local park.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
Most famously, Capt. George Streeter waged a decades - long battle in the late 1800s over rights to what later became known as Streeterville — now valuable property on Chicago's Near North Side built out of construction waste dumped on a sandbar in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire.
Global trading business Trafigura's settlement over allegations of toxic waste dumping is a major blow to the company's reputation.
He says the Onondagas» concerns continue to lie in the fact that 80 to 90 percent of industrial waste, dumped by various companies over the years, still lines the west shore of what was once called the most polluted lake in the country.
Accusations fly over criminal dumping and scuttling of cargo ships carrying industrial and radioactive waste
Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.
Under North Dakota regulations, the agencies that oversee drilling and water safety can sanction companies that dump or spill waste, but they seldom do: They have issued fewer than 50 disciplinary actions for all types of drilling violations, including spills, over the past three years.
So if you are checking a profile and find out the member came online over a month ago and you don't dump the profile, you are only wasting your time.
From the grayed - out countrysides over which the sky has closed like a lid; to the drizzly neon decadence of Los Angeles; to a San Diego refashioned as a waste dump worthy of Wall - E; to the Ozymandian wreckage of Las Vegas — the film is a splendor of the first order.
We've laid a lovely turf lawn over a toxic waste dump, and are all too willing to assume that the underlying issues have been solved.
He said: «Food waste makes up a significant proportion of the household waste we throw out each week, with over 70 % of the food waste dumped in landfills coming from households.
It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).
Ramu Nickel dumps over 5 million tonnes of toxic mine waste into the Bismark sea.
The idea is to «diminish money's influence over the building process,» with Kloehn and his collaborators collecting whatever they can find from illegal dumps, household and commercial waste that can be reused to create small, habitable spaces.
With the equivalent of one truckload of plastic trash being dumped in the world's oceans every minute, and consumption expected to rise significantly over the next few years, plastic waste management is an urgent issue.
Dane: I just now (4-14-16) heard you discuss climate engineering and the synergistic complexities which flare into existence when combined with Fukushima Radiation in both the air and the Pacific — and other radioactive particles from who knows where (Iraq war DU,left - over above ground atomic explosions, millions of tons of nuke waste just dumped into the oceans since 1945)?