Sentence examples for waste spills from inspiring English sources
We could return to grass-roots, state-driven environmental regulations, the kind that have made Texas the nation's leader in clean-water permit violations, hazardous waste spills and toxic emissions from manufacturing facilities.
By volume it was one of the biggest mining waste spills ever recorded, and it happened just over a year ago in central British Columbia.
Beyond health problems, add the cost of coal's effect on land use, energy consumption, and food prices, plus the cost of toxic waste spills and cleanup... $500 billion.
Pathogenic microorgan-isms such as Clostridium perfringens have been documented at high densities in receiving surface waters following CAFO waste spills (Burkholder et al. 1997).
According to the OSMRE analysis, most potential impacts including air pollution, noise, waste spills, and groundwater contamination are predicted to be negligible or minor at worst.
In advance of the storm's arrival, the EPA had predeployed teams to the area, with the mission of guiding debris disposal, assisting in the restoration of drinking and wastewater treatment systems, and containing hazardous waste spills.
In September 2009, for instance, it posted a leaked internal report from Trafigura, a commodities giant, discussing a hazardous waste spill in Côte d'Ivoire.
As you know, this was a case where a vast amount of toxic waste spilled into the Alamosa River in your state.
Last year, 3m gallons of drilling waste spilled into a tributary of the Missouri river from a leaky pipe near the town of Williston, North Dakota.
Generators at a treatment plant in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and one on the Hudson in the West 130's had intermittent problems before eventually quitting, he said, adding that environmental protection officials had been assessing the volume of waste spilled and would report their findings today.
In 2006, a toxic waste spill off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, from a European ship, prompted the Commission to look into legislation against toxic waste.
