Sentence examples for major environmental issues from inspiring English sources

The bipartisan passage of AB 32 in 2006 showed California, once again, willing to act on major environmental issues even if Washington could not.

Global concern for major environmental issues is at an all time low, according to the results of a global poll of more than 22,000 people in 22 countries, released earlier this week.

In these times of increasing wealth divide, underfinanced public schools, decaying infrastructure, major environmental issues, increasing poverty rates, a shrinking social safety net and the damaging corporatization of American life, such a viewpoint is hard to root for on Sundays.

"So the whole thing is how do we translate the tremendous amount of anxiety and interest in addressing major environmental issues into something concrete that people can do whose effect is measurable and significant?" Visitors to the clinic talk about an array of concerns, including contaminated land, polluted indoor air and dirty storm-water runoff.

Several major environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change currently concern the international community.

Global warming has been identified as one of the world's major environmental issues.

"This is the same naked politics that this administration has exhibited on every major environmental issue," Mr. Clapp said.

Mrs. Whitman, 54, has dealt with virtually every major environmental issue in her seven years in office: regulatory reform, suburban sprawl, air pollution and water quality.

One might assume that only a disagreement over a major environmental issue could create such virulence among people whose mission is protecting the earth.

Someone in the audience stands up and complains that no one ever talks about population: why not, when it is obviously the major environmental issue?

The retailers' organisation also said that plastic bags were not a major environmental issue, making up a fraction of 1% of household waste, but if governments wanted to reduce their use they would have to legislate.