They argue that widespread ocean dumping of carbon dioxide could unbalance the aquatic environment.
There, a Texaco subsidiary left widespread pollution, dumping waste into waterways and leaving behind hundreds of unlined pits brimming with toxic wastewater, a lawsuit filed in New York -- and later in Ecuador -- has charged.
Investors engaged in widespread selling on Thursday, dumping telecommunications stocks after the debt of WorldCom was downgraded to junk status.
Mr. Mangano said patient dumping was widespread and added, "We need to hold hospitals accountable, but also work with them to resolve these issues".
The law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), applies to any hospital receiving funds under Medicare or Medicaid (effectively, all of them) and was signed into law by President Reagan to combat the widespread practice of "patient dumping" -- hospitals' refusal to treat low-income and uninsured patients who need emergency care.
Eiten was sued in September 2006 by William Galvin, Massachusetts secretary of state, for engaging in "widespread 'pump and dump' transactions by publicly promoting certain stocks at the same time he was selling them".
India has a very limited number of sanitary landfills, and thus, open dumping is common and widespread.
Super Typhoon Haiyan — which is one of the strongest storms in world history based on maximum windspeed — is about to plow through the Central Philippines, producing a potentially deadly storm surge and dumping heavy rainfall that could cause widespread flooding.
In rural communities, the practice of dumping waste in rivers, streams, and ravines is widespread.
The degradation of the world's oceans caused by the dumping of plastic has long irked him, as has the widespread poverty he witnessed on his travels around the globe.
