Sentences with phrase «toxic waste dump»

My study / office looks like a disaster area or toxic waste dump ~ and I can't see the wood on the desk!

The United Church of Christ — a pioneer in the environmental justice movement in the early 1980s when it reported on the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in poor, black neighborhoods — has turned much of its attention to climate change.

Her first novel, Bonfire, a psychological thriller about an environmental lawyer who investigates toxic waste dumping in her Indiana hometown, will be published by Crown Archetype on November 7.

«Scenarios in the past have involved a goose kill on a lake, a break - in at the water quality lab, food tampering at a restaurant, faked primitive artifacts at an archeological dig, and an illegal toxic waste dump site.»

Simultaneously, improve our energy sources: (*) install huge wind and solar farms — as we find better, we can dismantle them w / o leaving toxic waste dumps behind.

That confidence was validated by the red - assing given to the internationals at literal toxic waste dump Liberty National last fall.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

Oftentimes residents will protest toxic waste dumps and other health threats only within their state borders, feeling immune to identical risks that are in neighboring states but even closer by.

, global transportation infrastructure, the effects of sea level rise on sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.

The fiery creature is an extremophile, an organism that thrives in extreme environments, such as toxic waste dumps and hot springs.

While campaigning against toxic waste dumping by industrialized nations in developing Asian countries, Hernandez realized that it was not only hazardous waste, but also toxic technologies that multinational companies were exporting throughout the region.

Global trading business Trafigura's settlement over allegations of toxic waste dumping is a major blow to the company's reputation.

If all of this wasn't enough, the countryside of Campania is dotted with illegal toxic waste dumps that are managed, once again, by the Camorra.

just look at the toxic waste dump that was bought by one of his contributors.

a bozo of an offensive coordinator, a toxic waste dump of a program, and a spot in a middling bowl game.

One hundred and seventy three (173) evacuators of the toxic waste dump in Koko community Delta State, out of which forty were reported to have feared...

We hope to find out what type of skewed immune response the typical autistic child has and to isolate toxic exposures, such as proximity to highways or toxic waste dumps.»

The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

These organisms thrive where other microbes don't dare venture: boiling water holes, freezing lakes, and toxic waste dumps.

The teachers unions alone leave us with a toxic waste dump worth of sludge to clean up.

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.

Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia: A public interest lawyer and mother of two, Zuzana Čaputová spearheaded a successful campaign that shut down a toxic waste dump that was poisoning the land, air and water in her community, setting a precedent for public participation in post-communist Slovakia.

The essays document a range of ecological disasters, including the devastating effects of mining, water pollution, nuclear power facilities, and toxic waste dumps.

She launched a personal investigation and discovered that her neighborhood was built on top of a toxic waste dump, known today as the Love Canal.

Meanwhile, Desmond D'Sa, a South African activist who was awarded the Prize for rallying south Durban's diverse and disenfranchised communities to successfully shut down a toxic waste dump, continues his fight for environmental justice.

This toxic waste dumping is also cited by local fisherman as contributing to declining fish stocks in the region, thereby pushing people to piracy.

However, the proposed site of the new mega-base is situated precariously close to a serious environmental nuisance.The facility in question, Ramat Hovav, is a combination industrial area and toxic waste dump, and has been a serious nuisance to residents of Israel's desert south for years.

Since then, risk assessment has been used to estimate the probability of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant, or the probability of a population of grizzly bears becoming locally extinct because too many roads were cut into their forest home, or the probability of children having their IQ lowered by exposure to toxic lead and PCBs in the soil near schools built on a toxic waste dump.

2014 Goldman Prize winner Desmond D'Sa answers our question about how he rallied south Durban's diverse and disenfranchised communities to successfully shut down a toxic waste dump that was exposing nearby residents to dangerous chemicals and robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to a safe and clean environment.

The horror of the crime and the defendant's U.K. roots have brought an international media gallery to Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., a city previously known in international legal lore as the setting for the toxic waste dump in the book and movie, A Civil Action.

This could happen due to a Great Depression class housing price bubble collapse, or more likely due to something like the discovery that there was a toxic waste dump under the house, or due to the discovery that the house had defective foundations and was at risk of collapsing as a consequence of bad soils or bad workmanship.

Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY made headlines in 1978 when it was discovered that the toxic waste dump had sickened hundreds of residents

«The service we provide is no different from checking records to find out whether a lot has been a toxic waste dump,» says Davey, of Buyers Voice, a 10 - year - old exclusive buyer's brokerage with three offices and 20 salespeople.

It's not unusual to go into a garage and wonder how it became a toxic waste dump.

But if you have toxic waste dump or an underground leaking oil drum or the unit is going through meth abatement, unless this is your specialty, move on to the next one.

Off - Site Conditions Odor, smoke, noise, and hazards affecting property due to proximity to: - Highways - Railroads - Commercial / industrial facilities - Military installations - Superfund sites - Toxic waste dumps