Sentence examples for ambitious cleanup from inspiring English sources

Two months after Modi was elected, he announced his most ambitious cleanup initiative: Namami Gange, or Obeisance to the Ganges.

China is to impose an environmental tax on heavy polluters under an ambitious cleanup strategy being finalised in Beijing, according to experts familiar with the programme.

For four nights starting tonight, New York City Transit will shut down parts of the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 subway lines between 10 p.m and 5 a.m., as part of its ambitious cleanup and repair program called Fastrack.

NARAHA, Japan — The decontamination crews at a deserted elementary school here are at the forefront of what Japan says is the most ambitious radiological cleanup the world has seen, one that promised to draw on cutting-edge technology from across the globe.

Last year newspapers heralded the return of fish to the creek, suggesting that an ambitious billion-dollar city cleanup had improved upon a past when raw sewage and chemicals were routinely dumped into its waters.

The decision by the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman, to proceed with an ambitious, expensive and complicated pollution cleanup plan for the Hudson River appears to have settled the most important overarching question about the river -- whether to dredge it to remove the PCB's on its bottom.

This isn't to say that women involved in the cleanup aren't tenacious, ambitious and daring or, for that matter, immune to failure.

A spokeswoman for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Maureen Wren, did not respond to questions about cleanup methods, but she said that the state was taking ambitious steps to deal with the M.T.B.E.

During the cleanup, the Administration focussed on working constructively with BP while pursuing an ambitious climate bill that would have effectively put a price on carbon emissions, the starting point for moving away from fossil fuels.

That role can sometimes become as controversial as forcing polluters to pay for a cleanup or, as in the case of the Gowanus, interfering with a city's ambitious economic development plans.

Meanwhile, a plan to extend the cleanup from the river to its banks is being pushed by City Hall — part of an ambitious project to lure Parisians back to the river.