Sentence examples for raft of environmental from inspiring English sources

Ikea has hit the headlines for introducing a raft of environmental policies in the last year.

Shell's Arctic quest has consumed seven years and $4 billion over two presidential administrations, overcoming a raft of environmental concerns, the opposition of a wily and unpredictable Inupiat Eskimo leader and the fallout from the BP disaster.

She is bound to come under immediate pressure, however, to roll back a raft of environmental regulations that the Clinton administration has imposed, including final pollution control rules that would force drastic reductions in the emissions of buses and trucks over the next decade.

It failed to hit the targets that it had agreed at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, scrapped a raft of environmental rules, and, in 2011, became the first government to back out of the Kyoto protocol, which the Liberals had ratified in 2002.

We would do well to heed his wise words as we sail our raft of environmental laws into the brave new world we've created.

In the decades that followed, Kennard sparked a raft of environmental initiatives – organizing rallies and demonstrations, forming committees and coalitions, and founding several non-profit organizations.

The nineteen-seventies saw a raft of new environmental laws and the growth of the Sierra Club's membership from tens to hundreds of thousands.

One of the contradictions in China today is that, on paper, the government has a raft of stringent environmental regulations, intended to protect the air, water, and soil.

BEIJING — China, the world's most prodigious emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to suffer the downsides of unbridled economic growth despite a raft of new environmental initiatives.

In short order, Congress passed a raft of powerful environmental laws that govern how we manage ecosystems and the species in them: the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA, 1970), the Clean Air Act (1970), the Clean Water Act (1972), the Endangered Species Act (ESA, 1973), and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA, 1976), among others.

Adani has maintained that the mine will deliver substantial economic benefits to Queensland and will be bound by a raft of rigorous federal environmental conditions.