What to do with all this waste, I learned, is a huge environmental issue.
This is not merely an environmental issue: it is an economic and social priority.
By coming out with his own set of sensible proposals, Bush checkmated Gore on the environmental issue.
Wayne State ignored my request in this environmental issue of public safety, and they ignored my FOIA appeal.
More often than not the bigger environmental issue lies in how that stuff gets to the city in the first place.
Apart from the enormous cost he said there were major environmental issue to consider as well as the positioning of the SS Montgomery which would blow any airport out of the water.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing, " says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse.
The environmentalist George Monbiot called the appointments a " declaration of war on the environment" by the prime minister, and there's been plentiful speculation in the media on the ministers' attitudes on this key environmental issue.
The recent ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that sonar training off of the West Coast was not a national security issue, but rather an environmental issue subject to the constraints of federal environmental statutes, illustrates the reality of this risk.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing, " says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse (nyse: CSR - news - people ).
However, at the heart of every corporate practice that touches upon an environmental or social issue, there are individuals weighing the costs and benefits of taking social responsibility factors into consideration.
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The Department of Environmental Conservation will issue an interim access plan within a few weeks that is expected to enable paddlers to walk 0.8 of a mile from the iron bridge just below the Goodnow River confluence along an old logging road to parking, agency officials said.
While the growing number of passenger cars is cited as an issue, environmental regulations for cars are already strict.
"Old water can be, unlike old beer, very fresh and clean, as it was infiltrated before environmental pollution was an issue, " Quinger told the newspaper.
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Obviously the whole issue of environmental integrity on tribal lands is something that too often has slipped through the cracks or decisions have been made in the absence of consultation with the tribes.
"The issue of environmental refugees promises to rank as one of the foremost human crises or our time, " says British environmentalist and Oxford University professor Norman Myers, who has published extensively on the subject.
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Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality insists the issue is a tempest in a garbage bag, pointing out that 80% of solid waste going into landfills last year was Michigan's own and that total waste fell by 5% last year.
"The local economy's been badly hit and then there's also the issue of environmental damage, and we really need to look at what caused this, what action was taken and how quickly it was acted on, " Mr Driver said.
As an Environmental Systems teacher in Ecuador, I had begun to appreciate that energy is the key issue at the intersection of environmental and social issues for our country and the world.
The Chavez government has approved a feasibility study twice, but, inexplicably, has declined to issue the necessary environmental permits.
The three studies appear in the April 21 issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Since its inception in April 2011, FracFocus has been extremely effective at addressing the issue raised by these environmental groups.
In the suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, the environmental groups asked a judge to issue an injunction to stop construction of North Sky River.
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Water management is quickly emerging as a core business issue, along with other environmental, social, and governance factors.
The issue has been hotly contested by environmental groups, local residents and the industry.
Given most Texans' dislike of regulations, there has never been a strong grass-roots environmental movement in the state, so the issue has never been high on the agenda of any governor.
FracFocus was created to address a very specific issue that had been raised by environmental groups: Several years ago, there was supposedly a hue and cry from landowners wanting to know the chemical content of the frac fluids that were going down oil and gas wells on their land or on adjacent lands.
The event saw more than 200 corporate and academic supply chain management experts discuss how to bring environmental sustainability and social responsibility to the key business issue.
Whether or not the impact of these particles becomes an issue of substance or dissipates as many environmental problems sometimes do, there is another good reason why the future of the metal might not be so solid.
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