As we now know, the largest environmental disaster in our country was taking place.
They say that our fixation with GDP and growth is threatening an environmental disaster.
Authorities said a major environmental disaster was unlikely as the swift current dispersed the oil.
In a similar way Amtrak is an environmental disaster, consuming billions of dollars more than it produces.
As Illinois waters became clogged with the invasive Asian carp, Schafer saw opportunity where others saw environmental disaster.
Writer Mark Gimein described the energy requirements as "an environmental disaster" in a blog post for Bloomberg.
We have always maintained that this development was ill thought out and potentially an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.
First came the region-wide financial collapse and environmental disaster the haze of smog from forest fires on Sumatra and Borneo.
April 20 marks the start of the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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Staff at the station were subsequently honoured for preventing a major environmental disaster.
In short, this is the largest response to an environmental disaster of this kind in the history of our country.
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If there is an environmental disaster, he warns, it won't just be China's problem, it will be the world's problem.
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the situation as an environmental disaster, but the refugees have yet to be moved.
They might include an industrial accident that causes injury or death, or an environmental disaster for which the company is responsible.
Assaulted by climate change, massive air pollution, and biologically dead rivers, the cities of the South are becoming environmental disaster areas.
Their findings suggest the spill has already eclipsed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, which was the worst environmental disaster in US history.
Having made such a mess of his own life, suddenly he is offered the chance to save the world from environmental disaster.
Repair work has also continued on the reservoir itself amid fears that what is already Hungary's worst environmental disaster could even get worse.
The resulting oil spill has not only dealt an economic blow to Americans across the Gulf Coast, it also represents an environmental disaster.
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Greenpeace has said that drilling in the middle of the Davis Straits, also known as "iceberg alley, " poses the risk of an environmental disaster.
There are some folks who are against raising the limit on what companies like BP have to pay if they cause an environmental disaster.
All in all, we are confronting the largest environmental disaster in our history with the largest environmental response and recovery effort in our history.
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But the US trade embargo against Communist Cuba would limit the ability of US companies and government agencies to respond to any environmental disaster.
Worries are growing that the ship could cause an environmental disaster if it breaks up and sheds its load of about 2, 300 tonnes of fuel.
The campaign flopped but the Senator picked up the pieces and earned respect with a best selling book advocating public policy change to avert environmental disaster.
And BP ignored repeated warnings and made one bad decision after another until it was an environmental disaster and then they continued to make more poor decisions.
They will lead the National Commission on the BP oil spill in the Gulf, which is now the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history.
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Opponents want U.S. President Barack Obama, who in the past has rejected rapid approval, to outright reject the pipeline project, arguing it would be an environmental disaster.
Depending on the point of view, zombies may result from an act of God, the irresponsible use of science, an environmental disaster, a cosmic event and so forth.
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