Sentence examples for polluting activities from inspiring English sources

Legislation making it easier for energy companies to forward polluting activities such as fossil fuel consumption and fracking were identified in 77 Alec bills so far this year.

The report argues that the strategy should include robust regulation to reduce polluting activities and policies that address market barriers (such as access to bank finance and reforming planning laws).

But the measures they propose are not those needed most; and they may even diminish further the chances of a treaty, since big polluters can now claim that such a thing is unnecessary.Many of the American and Chinese moves are of the command-and-control variety a ceiling on emissions here, a regulation of polluting activities there.

Whether or not Alaska proves to be the "canary in the cage" – the geological shenanigans there heralding far worse to come – depends largely upon the degree to which we are successful in reducing the ballooning greenhouse gas burden arising from our civilisation's increasingly polluting activities, thereby keeping rising global temperatures to a couple of degrees centigrade at most.

Although they have since accepted mountaineering as a way of life, Sherpas retain their respect for the mountains and have attempted to prevent foreign climbers from engaging in profaning and polluting activities, such as killing animals and burning garbage, which they fear will anger the gods.

That's because the money and energy spent on criminal activity could be diverted to other, equally polluting activities if crime were not taking place.

The government immediately asked several states to stop polluting activity.

Maurice Fitzpatrick, a tax expert at Grant Thornton, an accountancy firm, says the Tory position is "reasonably credible" but doesn't dismiss the risk that, if taxes change behaviour, there will be less polluting activity to raise revenue from.Andrew Leicester, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, points out that the government has already been burned in this way.

Introduction The healthcare activity is recognized as a major polluting activity.

So should communities currently dealing with heavy health impacts of polluting industrial activity".

In a sense, Europe is likely to have exported its emissions to places like China, where polluting economic activity continues to increase while the European economy stagnates.