Sentence examples for environmental corps from inspiring English sources

For an industry desperate to regain a modicum of public support and political credibility, agreeing to pay taxes specifically earmarked to fund an environmental corps would likely be seen as a small price to pay for increased respectability.

Why not marshal public fury at the Gulf oil disaster to generate funds for a huge new environmental corps, capable of hiring, and training, hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans?

And the federal government could then agree to something like a matching fund commitment, so that as big oil's tax contributions into the environmental corps increased, so too would those of the federal government.

On the environmental front, corps projects have turned free-flowing rivers into lifeless canals and destroyed millions of acres of wetlands -- usually in the name of flood control and navigation but mostly to satisfy Congress's appetite for pork.

The corps, environmental regulators and other federal and state agencies are wary of repeating the mass beach closings of the late 1980s, when medical waste washed ashore in New York and New Jersey.

With the agreement of the environmental agency, a corps contractor had stacked mounds of the dredged material at the demolished Li Tungsten smelting plant site on the north side of the creek.

The corps's environmental study said 80percentt of the benefits would be to reduce mainland flooding.

The corps' own environmental study found little threat to the area's ecology, a sharp contrast to the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, both of which have urged the corps to deny a fill permit.

The department, which forbade the dumping of sand in large areas of the national seashore, said the corps's environmental study failed to justify the need for the project.

Both the corps and environmental activists agree that the work will pull the salt line -- where the sea water is balanced against freshwater moving downriver -- more than a mile upstream.

The new rules reflect steady pressure from the Clinton administration and from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that took the Corps to court.