Sentence examples for environmental sins from inspiring English sources

But the company has also been spending hard to make amends for its environmental sins.

In the Hudson River, the number of shad has been dwindling because of overfishing and decades of environmental sins.

For it to appear after so many years was mythological, a message of forgiveness: maybe our environmental sins weren't so bad.

Sensing trouble, my wife, Karen, called in an arborist to determine what sort of environmental sins I was about to commit.

You can argue that the president's people have successfully diverted attention from their other environmental sins by keeping this argument alive long past the moment at which it should have been settled and a decision should have been made.

But she is no fan of General Electric, which she thinks should be fined a billion dollars or more -- roughly the cost of dredging -- as punishment for past environmental sins.

For many people reading this, air travel is their most serious environmental sin.

Ms Rosenthal explains:For many people reading this, air travel is their most serious environmental sin.

We can pass environmental sin taxes (like Ireland's tax on plastic shopping bags) and use our clout as a vast market to persuade manufacturers to reduce packaging.

But if you're going to have one, and of course most of us do, then surely the worst environmental sin is to waste what you've frozen.

It was a downer, but the audience found a restorative within the hour in Mr. Feagin's presidential address, a paean to "societal usefulness," chock-full of condemnations of racism, sexism, exploitation, domination, resource inequality, environmental degradation and other sins.