Sentence examples for imminent substantial from inspiring English sources

Actual or imminent substantial core damage or melting of reactor fuel with the potential for loss of containment integrity; radioactive material is released and may be above acceptable thresholds beyond the boundary of the power plant.

In an audit issued in 2007, the state comptroller accused city officials of foot-dragging, saying they "did not adequately monitor the extent and nature of the leaks" and had "not established an adequate plan to protect the public in the event of a sudden or imminent substantial loss of water from the Delaware Aqueduct system".

Environmental groups accused New York City of dragging its feet, and a 2007 report by the state comptroller criticized city officials for failing to "adequately monitor the extent and nature of the leaks" and to establish "an adequate plan to protect the public in the event of a sudden or imminent substantial loss of water".

The Environmental Protection Agency said the disaster posed "imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health".

The federal agency said adherence to the safeguards proposed in the plan "will help prevent the occurrence of a situation that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment".

The Newtown Creek Alliance, a local advocacy group, wrote letters last month to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Gov. David A. Paterson and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, saying that the airborne contaminants posed "an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health that must see immediate action".

Last Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency accepted the authority's decontamination plan, saying its safeguards "will help prevent the occurrence of a situation that may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment".

Of the South Korean news media, Ms. Jee said: "Attitudes reflected from conservative media and progressive media may be different, but one thing they have in common is that they do not emphasize any imminent or substantial sense of threat.

And that inaction has now led the state attorney general's office and the Mohawk tribe to threaten to sue General Motors, on the grounds that the dumps "may present an imminent and substantial endangerment" to the well-being of the river, the endangered species that survive in it, and to the roughly 9,000 people here, west of Plattsburgh on the Canadian border.

The suit claims that spraying the insecticide violates two state environmental laws as well as the federal Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which governs toxic substances that present an "imminent and substantial endangerment" to health or the environment.

All told, the EPA has issued 228 orders under Section 1431 since 1991, forcing polluters to address "situations where there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment".