By the late 1960s, the United States was confronted with the environmental threat presented by gasoline-powered automobiles.
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This would give rise to a competitive industry that determines accurate prices for the most efficient and cost effective manner of reining in CO2's environmental threat.
In the cities, where education levels are often higher and information flows more freely, Chinese citizens have even begun to protest in advance of a potential environmental threat.
With the deteriorating Russian nuclear arsenal posing a severe environmental threat, U.S. military officials believe the real challenge for the U.S. is not Russia's military strength but its weakness.
South Korea has stressed that the reprocessing technology it is seeking to master, called pyro processing, is crucial to managing its growing nuclear waste, which could potentially pose an environmental threat.
Activist Wu Dengming says that all that can be done now is to keep the threat of environmental catastrophe disaster to a minimum.
Article nine of the convention requires that people have the ability to challenge critical environmental decisions, without facing the threat of large legal costs.
On the day the Copenhagen summit started last December, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health.
Scientists are working to establish their exact toxicity, but a draft report from the US Environmental Protection Agency indicates dioxins are considered a serious threat to public health.
These are responsible for a wide range of environmental and socio-economic pressures that pose a serious threat to World Heritage properties.
The annual report uses data from thousands of rivers groups, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen watchdogs to identify waterways under imminent threat by dams, industry or development.
When environmental activists claim global warming is an imminent and alarming threat to humanity, their claims ring hollow when they oppose a cost-effective, environmentally friendly means of substantially reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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Environmental campiagners have said that many of Britain's wetlands which are under threat have been left off an government list of sites to be saved.
But Tyson's proposal could spark a backlash from politically powerful business groups and meet with stiff opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who see environmental regulation and international accords like the Kyoto Agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions as a threat to opening markets and increasing trade around the globe.
Environmental activists, he has long argued, are doing more harm than good by exaggerating the threat from chemicals.
In another sharp turnaround from the Bush era, America's Environmental Protection Agency ruled that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases were pollutants that posed a threat to public health, delighting greens and disappointing some business groups, which gave warning of the cost of further regulation.
The International Development Committee (at 9.30am) ponders the threat of a global food security crisis caused by rising demand, growing populations, climate change and environmental problems. witnesses include NGOs, food policy experts and economists.
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