Sentence examples for cleanup battle from inspiring English sources

(Read Raffi Khatchadourian on BP's cleanup battle, and join him for a live chat at 1 P.M. E.T. today).

Cleanup workers say the battle is a Sisyphean task.

For his organization, winning Federal financing for the $5 billion Rocky Flats cleanup has become a fight comparable to the battle in the late 1980's to win financing for Denver's $5 billion airport.

PAGE C1 Showdown Over the Hudson General Electric's vow to fight a proposal for dredging the Hudson River to remove toxic PCB's is only one sign that the battle over the cleanup has just begun.

At the post-nuclear Hanford, the cleanup is tangled in legal battles over workers' health, dangers to the environment and disputes among government agencies about oversight of safety.

And off the barrier islands near Barataria Bay, workers are in a constant battle with what one former cleanup worker calls "reefs of oil" that lay on the sandy ocean bottom near the coast.

As the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez spill disasters have shown us, there is no such thing as oil spill cleanup -- once oil has been spilled the battle has been lost.

The months after the attack have emerged as the focus of a contentious battle over the health effects of the cleanup, with workers at the site saying that their long-term exposure to toxins there caused serious illnesses, and that the Giuliani administration failed to recognize the risks in pushing for a speedy cleanup.

Oil spill "cleanup" is a myth: Once oil has spilled, the battle is lost -- it is impossible to effectively contain, recover, and cleanup.

The company is battling with environmentalists and regulators over the cleanup of the upper Hudson River, where the company discharged polycholorinated biphenyls decades ago.

"We hope the next battle is not having to fight DTSC for the cleanup".