Sentence examples for attack on the environment from inspiring English sources

Jay Inslee (D) said Wednesday that his state would challenge the president's "dangerous attack" on the environment.

Ordinarily, adding any kind of solid mass to the shallows around New York City is considered an illegal attack on the environment.

In its ruling, the first of its kind in France, the court also recognized the principle of ecological harm "resulting from an attack on the environment".

Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who is running for president on a plank focused on climate change, denounced Trump's order as a "dangerous attack" on the environment.

"This latest attack on the environment sends a clear message to the president's corporate polluting cronies -- do whatever you want to improve the bottom line," said Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey.

An attack on the environment was an assault on the rights and living conditions of the most vulnerable, he said, warning that at its most extreme, environmental degradation threatened humanity's survival.

"Having some kind of alternative voice might control judicial appointments, attacks on the environment, civil liberties and the deficit".

In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.

"It looks like Labor would wind back some of the worst attacks on the environment by the Coalition, but it has left a lot of work to do for itself on climate change," Wakeham said.

After announcing, on an Aegean island, that attacks on the environment should be considered sins, he called pollution of the world's waters "a new Apocalypse" and led global calls for "creation care".

While attending protests at places like Standing Rock, he has come to realize how people of color are disproportionately affected by corporate attacks on the environment.