Sentence examples for polluting facilities from inspiring English sources

Lerner assesses the diverse strategies used by affected communities to win legal settlements, educate and mobilize their residents, block permits and expansion of polluting facilities, force cleanup of contamination, extract concessions and pollution reduction from fenceline industrial plants, and target enforcement by government.

These communities have been regularly used as dumping grounds for polluting facilities, and consistently suffer the worst health effects from pollution.

Moreover, corporations may own polluting facilities in several states or a facility that emits pollutants into several states, making it difficult for a lone state agency to police them.

Yet no legislation has been tailored to protect a landscape that is perhaps the most vulnerable: the low-income communities that shelter most of America's polluting facilities.

The mere fact of disparate impact, he says, is not evidence of intentional discrimination in the placement of polluting facilities — it's just economics.

City authorities said Thursday that they would place tighter restrictions on vehicle use during the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November, while requesting neighbouring areas to shut down polluting facilities.

"I will not create jobs, or hold jobs, that kill people," Romney says, pointing back at the polluting facility.

A recent study of hazardous and solid waste sites, power plants, and polluting industrial facilities in Massachusetts cities and towns, found that low income communities were cumulatively exposed to environmentally hazardous facilities and sites at four times the rate of high income communities.

In the early 1990s he and his colleague Bunyan Bryant, now director of the Environmental Justice Initiative at the University of Michigan, measured the distance of a probability sample of Detroit area residents to nearby hazardous waste sites and polluting industrial facilities.

"It provides the potential for phasing out old, polluting waste-transfer facilities that are concentrated now in low-income communities," he said.

But Democrats defeated a Republican amendment restricting federal funds for abortion.The Obama administration upped the ante on negotiations in Congress over a bill to lower greenhouse-gas emissions when it said it would use the "power and authority" of the Clean Air Act to impose such reductions on the worst-polluting facilities.