Since environmental regulation costs money, imposing or tightening regulation has become increasingly difficult.
Large subsidies support the price of sealskins, which has been plummeting since environmental pressure groups started campaigning.
This is still not intrinsic value, since environmental balance is useful to people, but it is a bit less self-centered.
While the foul odor was turning away tourists, biologists called it the smell of success, since environmental protections were luring endangered fowl back to the area.
In the past 40 years or so, ever since environmental law emerged as a separate field based on major statutes enacted in the 1970s, the Supreme Court has been reasonably receptive to cases brought by environmental groups.
But he said he would not like to see the field dominated by the animal welfare issue, since environmental and public health issues are such important "drivers for this research".
Since environmental protection is one critically important realm in which the Party finds its interests overlapping to some degree, at least with those of independent writers, artists, intellectuals, and non-governmental actors, Cai has been able to push boundaries.
Artificial trees with otherworldly abilities are a great hope against climate change, since environmental experts say it's not realistic to expect humanity to release significantly less carbon into the atmosphere.
The use of dolostone as a flux has increased, especially since environmental contamination has become a widely heeded consideration, because the resulting slag can be employed for such things as lightweight aggregate, whereas that formed when limestone is used cannot.
Since environmental protection is one critically important realm in which the Party finds its interests overlapping — to some degree, at least — with those of independent writers, artists, intellectuals, and non-governmental actors, Cai has been able to push boundaries.
Since environmental policy proceeds mostly by government fiat, consumers have endured higher prices for the products of firms that have borne needlessly high clean-up costs, and homeowners have paid higher property taxes to finance the vast sums spent by their towns on waste treatment and water purification.
