Sentences with phrase «radioactive pollution of»

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I sometimes think that the difficulties we now face in controlling water, air, and soil pollution, and the undue dissemination of radioactive materials, are the result of a common impression that «the boundary between life and non - life has all but disappeared.

The generation enjoying the benefits of producing chemical and radioactive waste should consider investing a portion of today's profits in an endowment fund, gathered perhaps from a pollution tax.

Dan Telvock continued his relentless coverage of lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner - city, radioactive contamination in Niagara County and pollution along Scajaquada Creek.

This result is surprising because many types of fungi, including truffles, grow underground in — and draw nutrients from — soil prone to accumulating radioactive pollution.

«This year, we will press the United States and other nations to exert strong leadership in advancing an agenda that extends beyond whaling to the broader range of threats that imperil whales throughout our oceans, including ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, entanglement, oil spills, radioactive contamination, emerging diseases and climate change,» says Kitty Block, HSI vice president, who will be attending the IWC meeting for the 14th time.

And they listed a set of what they call «no trespass zones», from which refugees would be excluded either legally, or by violence, or by the risk of landmines or radioactive pollution.

It is a future in which the IWC plays a primary role in the health and protection of our oceans, a future in which the body exerts greater leadership in respect to the raft of threats that jeopardize all marine life, whether it be oil spills, radioactive contamination, entanglement in fishing gear and marine debris, ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, emerging diseases, climate change or all of these cumulatively and synergistically.

U.S. wind farms benefit wildlife by helping to keep our environment clean, as wind energy emits no air or water pollution, requires no fuel, uses no water in the production of power, and creates no hazardous or radioactive waste.

Until these risks are properly mitigated and the complete nuclear fuel cycle — from the mining and milling of uranium to the final disposal of radioactive wastes — is sufficiently regulated, nuclear power should not be a leading strategy for diversifying America's energy portfolio and reducing carbon pollution.

Candidates were asked which of these phrases - «acid rain», «global warming», «noise pollution», «radioactive waste» — went into these sentences: 1.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

This session we saw legislation passed to bolster protections for mineral and royalty owners, increase fees for stationary sources of air pollution, enforce the state's call - before - you - dig program and ensure safe and orderly processing of certain kinds of naturally occurring radioactive waste — all supported by our industry.