Sentences with phrase «pollution out of rivers»

The EPA needs to put these common - sense protections in place to keep this toxic pollution out of our rivers, lakes and streams.»

Rain gardens help absorb runoff when it rains, keeping stormwater pollution out of rivers and streams.

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Numerous conventions between States which turn out to be geographically interdependent have been hammered out, a few before, but most since, that date, covering such matters as the prevention of the pollution of the seas in general, or of particular seas, or common rivers, the reduction of air pollution and latterly the safeguarding of flora and fauna».

For Americans, the percentage is higher: Light pollution prevents four out of five from seeing our home galaxy as a gauzy river of light arcing overhead.

For plenty of years before that there was a general awareness of enormous environmental problems, at least among us old hippies of the past who were watching the Brazilian Rainforests burn and who had come out of a time that generated enormous amount of river pollution and super-fund sites in the USA.

A new study confirms that carbon pollution has ended the era of the stable climate conditions that enabled the development of modern civilization High levels of carbon pollution have caused global temperatures to rise above the slow - changing, relatively stable conditions that existed «when humans were figuring out where the climate — and rivers and sea levels — were most suited for living and farming.»

BAT Industries v Sequana Acting for BAT Industries in a multi-party, multi-jurisdictional commercial dispute concerning liability for environmental pollution of rivers in the United States, and a claim in Chancery Division for over US$ 800 million in respect of dividends paid out by a company in the face of a contingent indemnity liability in respect of such pollution, allegedly unlawfully, in breach of fiduciary duty and as a transaction defrauding creditors under s423 Insolvency Act 1986.