Sentence examples for environmental dumping from inspiring English sources

Mr Sarkozy talked of Europe's expensive climate-change commitments and the need to fight "environmental dumping".

(Seeds of Change, Vol. 32, No.1, Jan-April 2016, p. 15) The SDG Goal 17.1 calls for more trade liberalisation and power for the WTO - although environmental threats mandate the opposite: boarder tax adjustments to stop environmental dumping.

That money, $218 million this year alone, will now start flowing to projects that will do real good in neighborhoods that have too often been neglected -- or worse, used as environmental dumping grounds where politicians thought it was safe to locate freeways, oil refineries and other polluting facilities that affluent communities didn't want in their back yards.

Beyond flooding and destruction, Hurricane Irene is likely to have caused less visible environmental damage by dumping sewage, pesticides and other contaminants into waterways along the East Coast, federal officials said.

It is unclear when the department stopped the practice, but as environmental rules restricted dumping waste in the ocean, the Police Department, like other agencies, turned to other means of discarding unwanted goods.

Today, we have a much greater appreciation than people did in 1900 of the potential environmental hazards of dumping huge amounts of energy into the atmosphere in the form of microwaves.

This summer, Southern Water was convicted in court of breaching its environmental permit after dumping 40m litres of raw human sewage into the sea at Worthing in September 2012, because three pumps had failed at a treatment works and were threatening to push the sewage back into the town.

You don't have to be a highly trained scientist to see the long-term environmental costs of dumping more than 1 billion pounds of pesticides on the American landscape annually.

Mr Kerry proposes to review all trade deals, from the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) down, to see where labour, dumping and environmental protections need to be tightened up.

But neighborhood activists like John McGettrick, a chairman of the Red Hook Civic Association, have accused the E.P.A. of trying to enrich Mr. Quadrozzi, the owner of several city concrete plants and someone they say has been cited by New York State's environmental agency for illegally dumping in Gowanus Bay.

Europe-wide austerity, attacks on the protection of individuals by the ECHR, welfare reform, relaxing of business regulations, streamlining dismissal procedures, anti-immigration hysteria, making it more difficult for unions to take industrial action and the dumping of environmental controls on industry, are all part of that same nexus.