Sentence examples for preventing spills from inspiring English sources

Milk storage facilities have been subject since the 1970s to federal regulations aimed at preventing spills that can contaminate water supplies.

The oil industry has made enormous strides in preventing spills.

That should be the goal even if our overwhelming preoccupation is with preventing spills.

"Applying any conditions to the permit that address preventing spills is outside our purview.

Members of the delegation said it was not clear how drilling companies working in Cuban waters would be able to obtain safety equipment from the United States, like capping stacks or blowout preventers, to prevent spills or mitigate their effect.

Screw caps prevent spills when the opened bottles lie horizontally in refrigerators.

Once you finished drinking, the tab snapped back into place to prevent spills.

The best strategy, of course, is to prevent spills in the first place.

In the short term, the agency will seek to prevent spills like the one at the Kingston plant, where the wall retaining a pile of ash 55 feet high ruptured, destroying nearby homes and choking waterways with a toxic sludge.

In addition to the increase in potential fines for violations, to $2 million from $1 million, the legislation allows the secretary of transportation to mandate automated shutoff valves on new or replaced pipelines to prevent spills.

To highlight the effort, the administration announced it had repealed an environmental regulation that classified milk as a kind of oil that required elaborate safeguards to prevent spills that might contaminate waterways.