Sentence examples for environmentally contentious from inspiring English sources
The company also reaps benefits from the ascendancy of natural gas, particularly in the widespread — and environmentally contentious — mining practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
These techniques appear to be environmentally contentious and may not be commercially viable.
The use of depleted uranium became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of depleted uranium munitions by the US, UK and other countries during wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions of uranium compounds left in the soil (see Gulf War Syndrome).
A broad package of policies will be needed to arrive at this goal — industry innovation, awareness-raising campaigns, nutrition education, cooking skills and, however contentious, a tax on the most environmentally damaging products.
But this latest version of the Permit Extension Act is contentious among environmentalists and smart-growth planners, because in addition to extending permit deadlines, it covers "environmentally sensitive areas" in the Highlands, the Pinelands and other rural zones excluded from the permit extensions in the last two rounds.
Contentious Elections Routledge, 2015.
