Sentences with phrase «waste dumps for»

Though we may honor our bodily temples with nourishing foods, we can not realize our full health potential so long as we remain waste dumps for mercury, aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, lead and nickel.

And, of course, we need to stop using the sea and sky as waste dumps for our carbon dioxide pollution.»

«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.

Would we like it today if the Romans had developed a modern technological society like ours, and their scientists told them that using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gases would melt the ice caps, acidify the oceans, overheat the tropics, cause species extinctions, etc, and then they decided to go ahead and do it anyway, just because they were selfish and didn't care about other people?

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The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

Instead, the official reason for the visit was to investigate illegal dumping of waste.

As part of the mines continued operations the waste rock dump is to be expanded, resulting in the loss of 75.7 ha of habitat for three threatened species of Black Cockatoo.

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

In 2006, two years after Vedanta acquired the mine, the company dumped hazardous waste into the Kafue River, a major source of drinking water for the country, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 2,000 residents.

Even the BC Teachers» Federation, which has long prided itself on being non-partisan, is clearly campaigning for the NDP this time around, with a pricey TV ad calling on British Columbians to dump a government it insists has laid waste to the education system.

guidedans: «To all you people dumping on ddeevviinn's note, all you have to live for is this life, and you are wasting it getting into arguments on the internet.»

I didn't want all that effort for a beautiful meal to go to complete waste, so I salvaged what I could of the food, dumped it into a smaller but definitely - oven - safe dish and stuck it back in to bake.

There is no excuse for trashing the planet, like so many big industrial companies do (e.g. dumping their toxic waste into rivers, etc..)

Little did I know at the time, you are supposed to dispose of solid waste the same way for disposables as you must for cloth diapers; by dumping it in the toilet before washing or throwing the diapers away.

The culprit could face charges for illegally dumping waste into the river.

Shipping the soil to a dump site for hazardous waste would have cost $ 450,000, he said.

Wilson criticized Stefanik's environmental record, including for what she said was a vote to nullify the Stream Protection Rule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterways.

«That's allowing waste to be dumped into rivers and streams and in the same month, she accepted the River Keeper Award out in the St. Lawrence,» Wilson said, referring to an award given by a nonprofit for the lawmaker's work to support Plan 2014, a plan to modify water levels on Lake Ontario.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced last week that it is seeking to recover cleanup costs for the Niagara Sanitation landfill from the companies and entities that dumped waste there 40 years ago.

Hinchey is also known for his work against the dumping of toxic waste by organized crime.

During a hearing on water quality, Basil Seggos, the New York State commissioner for environmental conservation, said «no fracking waste is being dumped in New York State.»

The day before Datre Jr. and Grabe were sentenced last week, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed legislation that increases penalties for dumping in county parks, including up to a year in jail for people caught dumping waste and construction debris on county parkland, roads or rights of way.

We've got all of the infrastructure for fracking up in New York State, even the waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.

The Dewey Loeffel site in the Town of Nassau was a dumping ground for industrial waste in the 1950s and 60s.

«We're not a dumping ground — not for dead household waste or for live deer,» said Oddo, who has begged the city to contain the ever - expanding herd in his borough for more than a year.

«It has been dumped in the waste bin, flung into the gutter by very little men who have compromised the pivotal moral anchor of civilised engagement for temporary selfish gains.»

You recently voted for repeal of a rule, existing federal rule that was aimed at preventing coal mining waste from being dumped into streams and rivers.

The wasted earth and other materials are either put back onto the mountaintop in an approximation of their original contours, wreaking havoc on local ecosystems and biodiversity, or dumped into neighboring valleys, polluting lakes and streams and jeopardizing water quality for humans and wildlife.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

But permitting a dump site for Class B and Class C material is almost as difficult as siting a high - level waste dump.

Environmental destruction — from smuggling elephant tusks to illegal dumping of toxic waste — generates as much as $ 213 billion annually for criminals and terrorists.

The patent (EPO 564 651) describes a space module for dumping the waste in «graveyard» orbit (where it is sure to remain), using a modification of the Soyuz spacecraft.

The scientists stressed the need for more study of the conditions at the bottom of the ice sheet because of a proposal published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1973 to use the ice sheet as a dumping ground for radioactive waste.

Ten miles from the Columbia river, in the treeless hills of Arlington, Oregon, a monumental dump for domestic waste has been carved out of farmland.

I find John Crowhurst's letter proposing Australia's outback as a dumping ground for the world's nuclear waste offensive (30 November,...

Taken together, all types of environmental crime — from smuggling elephant tusks to China to illegal dumping of toxic waste — generates as much as $ 213 billion for unsavory characters around the world.

When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

Public opposition to a dump for radioactive waste in northern Germany has forced the government to hold a public hearing into the safety and suitability of the plan — the first such hearing to be held in the country.

By BRIAN WYNNE and SUE MAYER When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

Subra's work in refinery communities like Norco exposes the racial and economic fault lines in rural America, where impoverished communities of color often become the dumping ground for our nation's toxic wastes.

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

But Keller, a natural resource manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen a more ominous effect of the boom, too: Oil companies are spilling and dumping drilling waste onto the region's land and into its waterways with increasing regularity.

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.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for resource extraction — or waste disposal.This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities in the face of various «development» or waste dumping projects.

While small amounts of sewage can dissipate quickly, the routine dumping of large amounts of human waste has caused long - term harm to many shoreline ecosystems, and rendered many coastal waters unfit for recreational activities.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

What this means is that the liver is dumping waste into the blood, and while you're waiting for the lymph system to do its thing by ridding you of toxins, you're going to feel pretty low.