"environmental ramifications" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to the consequences of something with regard to the environment or nature. For example: "The environmental ramifications of clear-cutting forests are becoming increasingly clear."
Given the economic and environmental ramifications of my commute, in fact, it's too bad that it isn't more uncomfortable or more costly.
In September the school established the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, aimed at getting students and professors from different disciplines to collaborate in studying the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
"Because the opening of the Arctic Refuge to drilling raises a host of policy concerns, including serious environmental ramifications, we do not believe this issue should be injected in the budget process," the letter said.
Those affected by development projects must be educated about their legal rights, fully informed about the terms and environmental ramifications of land concessions and encouraged to stand up against unjust corporate practices.
Explaining his activism in language quite different than the lyrics of hits like "Time to Get Ill" and "Rhymin' and Stealin'," Mike D. said, "Any actions as dramatic as those put forth in the Bush energy plan will have worldwide environmental ramifications".
So the destruction of the DRC's forests will have significant environmental ramifications.
The treatment of textile effluent prior to its release into water bodies is must as pollution traits such as solids, oils, metal complexes, high organics, complex synthetic dyes and residues from various pre-processing steps for fabric preparation and colouring have far-reaching environmental ramification.
In summer 2008, IDA sponsored briefings before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives at which Longcore and other experts presented data on the energy, human health, and environmental health ramifications of light pollution.
And what about the environmental and ethical ramifications of having several children?
By contrast, the economic, environmental and social ramifications of almost limitless clean energy have the potential to far outweigh those of a new stretch of high-speed train line connecting a handful of cities on a small island.
However, dependence on this one natural resource to maintain modern amenities has caused negative environmental and geopolitical ramifications.
