Robin McKie Air pollution has become one of the major environmental problems for industrialised nations.
Similarly, Iran's major environmental problems - increased air pollution, biodiversity losses, desertification, deforestation, and drying water resources - will cross boundaries with major regional and even global implications, even though sanctions were supposed to hurt only Iran.
The moratorium, combined with an end to tax credits, would deal a double blow to an industry that, solar advocates say, has experienced significant growth without major environmental problems.
Robin West of PFC Energy, a consultancy, argues that some easing of restrictions makes sense: "Even super-green Canada and Norway allow offshore drilling, and have not seen major environmental problems".Yet this is no real crisis warranting government intervention.
The company said that within China, a nation with major environmental problems, Wal-Mart would aim by 2010 to cut water use in half in all stores, design and open a prototype store that used 40percentt less energy, and reduce energy use in existing stores by 30percentt.
Apparently, benign desalination life cycle creates major environmental problems which are still largely ignored.
Such drainage is a major environmental problem worldwide.
These events — called combined sewer overflows — have been recognized as a major environmental problem for decades.
Topsoil loss through the use of mechanized agriculture has emerged as a major environmental problem.
Eutrophication is considered to be a major environmental problem in lake, coastal marine, and estuarine ecosystems worldwide.
In fact, the study cited in the editorial had to reach back eight years to 1999 to find a major environmental problem associated with hog farming.
