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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
academic/political/environmental etc criteria
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The winning product must satisfy a range of environmental criteria.
air/environmental/water etc pollutants
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New regulations will reduce hazardous air pollutants.
an ecological/environmental disaster (= causing great damage to nature )
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This region is facing an ecological disaster as a result of toxic waste.
an environmental hazard (= a danger or problem in the environment )
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Oil from the tanker caused an environmental hazard.
an environmental impact
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The environmental impact of the construction project is being investigated.
an environmental problem
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Air pollution is our most serious environmental problem.
economic/social/environmental etc benefits
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Tourism has brought considerable economic benefits to the island.
environmental conservation
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It is important to encourage environmental conservation and awareness.
environmental damage
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The programme will concentrate on reducing environmental damage and pollution.
environmental destruction
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The islands are already threatened by environmental destruction.
environmental factors
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Various environmental factors affect the growth of grapes.
environmental footprint
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You can reduce your environmental footprint by recycling as much as you can.
environmental harm
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The report highlights the environmental harm caused by transporting goods around the world.
environmental pollution
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Most environmental pollution originates in the developed countries.
environmental protection
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A draft agreement on environmental protection for Antarctica was discussed.
environmental regulations
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The Bill stipulated some of the toughest environmental regulations yet seen in the industrial world.
environmental standards (= to protect the environment )
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They called on the Indian government to apply stricter environmental standards.
environmental/nuclear/economic etc catastrophe
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The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
environmental/political/social awareness
reduce...environmental footprint
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You can reduce your environmental footprint by recycling as much as you can.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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activist
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There are no animal rights or environmental activists on the banned list.
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The group, like other environmental activists , would prefer the use of hydrogen alone to generate power for fuel cells.
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The group was divided into two subgroups: one for teenagers, and one for the community's environmental activists .
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Until relatively recently, organized religion has left environmental protection to environmental activists , concerned scientists and political figures.
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Few environmental activists would agree with that judgment.
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There's considerably less bitching about the federal government, environmental activists and co-ed dorms.
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It also points to a developing new alliance between environmental activists and religion.
assessment
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Before the decommissioning and construction of a maintenance facility can occur, however, the Navy must complete an environmental assessment report.
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Road building proposals for sensitive areas such as Oxleas Wood and Twyford Down must be subject to full environmental assessment .
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We produced a whole environmental assessment , not just what I think, but what several other coral researchers thought.
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They are supported by a very detailed environmental assessment .
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People need to be satisfied that the environmental assessments for King's Cross and the high-speed link are accurate.
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This paves the way for the start of environmental assessment , but construction is not envisaged for some years.
awareness
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The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness .
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And that includes hues of oatmeal and taupe, which color consultants say suggest wholesome environmental awareness .
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Such training includes environmental awareness carried out in conjunction with the Environmental Department.
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The nine included product quality, technical back-up, innovation and environmental awareness .
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In an age of increasing environmental awareness , the new £250,000 plant in Bolney, West Sussex is the ultimate recycling plant.
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However, growing environmental awareness also poses challenges for conservation bodies.
benefit
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It is here that any given expenditure will produce the greatest environmental benefit .
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There also is the obvious environmental benefits to biking, since it reduces air pollution and reduces traffic.
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Depending on how it evolves, electricity liberalization could bring environmental benefits .
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The social opportunity costs of conservation, without denying their environmental benefits , are frequently high.
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This can be a difficult and expensive process, but it is one that delivers a range of environmental benefits .
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It's environmental benefits may be undisputed, but it seems its suitability for the car engine has now come into question.
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It is essential that any proposals should be scientifically justifiable otherwise costs increase and jobs are threatened with no real environmental benefits .
catastrophe
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They act as a complement to his large works which are responses to a progressive environmental catastrophe .
change
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For instance, if environmental changes are capricious, the animal's migration viewed in isolation will also be capricious.
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It allows organisms to protect their essential dynamical properties in the face of environmental changes by varying less essential dynamical properties.
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Planetary overload: global environmental change and the health of the human species.
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The 1970 National Environmental Policy Act extended this principle to environmental changes .
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Both forest management and afforestation are responsible for direct and indirect environmental change .
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Analyse policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development.
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For all of these agents of environmental change , economic and political considerations are primary factors in their operation and future development.
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This, and similar organisations, may well become agents of environmental change in the not too distant future.
concern
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Its chairman, Helmut Sihler, said that environmental concerns would add tens of billions of dollars to industry's costs.
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In this case, the Court answered no, though the legislation was prompted by strong environmental concerns .
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Out of environmental concerns , the steel will be retrieved.
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They contend that environmental concerns have been thoroughly studied and debated.
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As some observers noted, the new regulation establishes the principle that environmental concerns take precedence over commercial arguments.
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They become entangled in national budgetary squabbles or bogged down with environmental concerns .
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Similarly, some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns.
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Local observers were encouraged to report on distribution and migration patterns, thus paving the way for an interest in environmental concerns .
consequence
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Some of the environmental consequences have been deeply negative.
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While addressing this economic question, how can we use natural gas to mitigate the environmental consequences of increased coal burning?
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We have difficulty making even the most obvious connections between human activities and their environmental consequences .
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In addition, the social, employment and environmental consequences of open cast mining are the subjects of quite varied interpretations.
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Yet the environmental consequences of unchecked population growth will be devastating.
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However, nothing is known about the long-term environmental consequences - or even effectiveness - of using the ocean beds as dumps.
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This has had damaging environmental consequences , such as creating new pressures for house building and increasing reliance on car-based transport.
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Removal of tariffs on forest products will have devastating environmental consequences on the world's remaining forests.
consideration
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But social and environmental considerations are also being considered.
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This is an area of rapid development with little or no environmental considerations .
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What are the environmental considerations or limitations?
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These, as we now know, involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees.
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As to Broughton moor, we shall do all that we can to take environmental considerations into account.
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Other measures proposed include action to tackle traffic flows, and greater environmental considerations of spending on new transport infrastructure.
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Ethical and environmental considerations are an important part of this innovative programme.
control
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Sixthly, on environmental controls , I congratulate the Government on their more sensible and practical approach.
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The internal part of the mid-section was also pressurized and contained the guidance computer and the environmental control system.
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The fear is based on the difference in environmental control standards between the two countries.
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To the extent environmental controls undermine our economic base, they threaten our ability to pursue the environmental goals we all share.
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Crumley starts by analysing the piecemeal approach to development and lack of adequate environmental control in the Cairngorms.
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The environmental control unit was a squat concrete abutment with metal slotted vents.
cost
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Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
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Foes, in addition, worry about the environmental cost .
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This clearly implies that the full environmental costs of mining operations should be borne by the operator.
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Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
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Planning can include social and environmental costs . 2.
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Moreover, countries should price fuels to reflect their full costs , including environmental costs.
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In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs .
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Then there are the environmental costs .
costs
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Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
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This clearly implies that the full environmental costs of mining operations should be borne by the operator.
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Social and environmental costs Much has been written on the social and environmental costs of opencast coal.
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Moreover, countries should price fuels to reflect their full costs , including environmental costs.
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Planning can include social and environmental costs . 2.
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In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs .
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Then there are the environmental costs .
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Trade has environmental costs , for instance.
damage
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The replacement of surface skin cells slows down, and they tend to become more prone to environmental damage .
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When that happens, the result is environmental damage and human suffering.
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Paradoxically, environmental damage is a source of growth because it prompts people to spend money on repairs.
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Seventy percent of global environmental damage is because of the rich countries.
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Wesley Smith Opponents say it's a policy doomed to fail - creating massive environmental damage .
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But the precise size of the spill and the incumbent environmental damage remained unclear Saturday.
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It is likely that very severe environmental damage would be done if parts of this reserve were activated.
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Local self-sufficiency is further hindered by widespread environmental damage .
degradation
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The report speaks of extensive environmental degradation caused by high population growth, rapid urbanization and fast industrialization.
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I realized the data did not square with the theory that population growth causes resource depletion and environmental degradation .
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Declining productivity levels and environmental degradation have caused a widespread exodus of people to centres of economic activity.
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In a few short but intense years we began to atone for centuries of environmental degradation .
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It would wipe out farm profits, undermine rural employment and cause environmental degradation in East Anglia, he says.
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Many of these relations directly or indirectly affect land using decisions which lead to environmental degradation .
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The results of the research will increase the knowledge of the socio-economic and demographic causes of environmental degradation in the Sahel.
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Regional geochemical maps provide information on background levels of metals against which environmental degradation can be monitored.
destruction
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The killing, which occurred in 1988, was met with worldwide outrage and focused attention on environmental destruction of the Amazon.
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Yet in the age of unprecedented environmental destruction an awkward question nags at us.
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They are already threatened with environmental destruction , since 88 % of their original vegetation has been destroyed.
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The downside was inefficiency, corruption and environmental destruction .
disaster
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If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster .
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The result is that civil, socio-political and environmental disasters are now threatening the roots of our existence.
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Of course, the Third World has already had - and has - some considerable environmental disasters .
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Although the oil wells survived they where badly managed and an environmental disaster .
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Perhaps international pressure can stop this environmental disaster .
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By 1903 the spectre of that environmental disaster had vanished.
factor
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On average, environmental factors caused about twice as many cancers as inborn genetic factors.
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Another environmental factor long thought to contribute to alcoholism is expectancy.
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Hence inherited characteristics could not be modified by environmental factors .
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Finally, it might be the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors .
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It could be forgotten that these limitations are also set by environmental factors .
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For plans to be effective management should consider the wider environmental factors that relate to the firm.
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This example shows that environmental factors can not be cleanly isolated from biological ones.
group
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Interest in clean technology among governments, industrial organisations and environmental groups is, therefore, high.
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Her decision drew strong criticism from environmental groups , nuclear non-proliferation activists and some members of Congress.
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Of course, disparity between the timber industry and environmental groups centres on the definition of sustainability.
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Myers is director of the W.. Alton Jones Foundation, an environmental group .
health
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The team recently collected a silver trophy in Aylesbury Vale District Council's environmental health competition.
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Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
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Subsequently the scientists had advised the local environmental health officer of the dangers and he closed the water.
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Eventually, environmental health officers seized Mary Carruthers' stereo system and speakers after a petition from neighbours.
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And Northamptonshire's environmental health officers are backing up that message.
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In Darlington applications have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks.
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The work of the environmental health officer will be particularly affected.
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People holding loud parties or operating noisy machinery will be closely scrutinised by the council's environmental health officers.
impact
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The Commission claims that the government has breached the directive which requires an assessment of the environmental impact of major projects.
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Fresh details of the zoo master plan were presented to the Planning Commission on Thursday in a 190-page environmental impact report.
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These are just two reasons why an environmental impact survey is needed but the planning committee have not considered this.
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Its main task would be to ensure that the environmental impact of military activities were kept to a minimum.
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We will encourage environmental audits for companies, showing the environmental impact of their activities.
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Our addiction to petroleum can only be managed by incorporating environmental impacts in fuel costs.
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In many cases, both the minimisation of environmental impact and cost savings compared with previous practice have been achieved.
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Increasingly such requirements are based on life-cycle assessments of the product's environmental impact during production, consumption and disposal.
improvement
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A third have also carried out environmental improvement work, mainly teacher instigated.
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It's the latest move in Teesside Operations' environmental improvement programme.
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Some environmental improvements and land reclamation had additionally taken place.
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A special study has been carried out on the need to balance environmental improvements with potential disruption of essential traffic.
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It cooed about sewage treatment, environmental improvements and coastal waters.
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It could even be represented as an environmental improvement of a run down site.
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Over recent years, environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products.
issue
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Includes comment on the incorporation of affordable housing, but focuses on design and environmental issues .
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The lawsuit asks a judge to halt the project until environmental issues are sorted out.
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Protecting our planet. securing our future: linkages among global environmental issues and human needs.
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But the commission, long criticized for inattention to environmental issues , is under fire from a sister agency.
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The planning department of this sixth company questioned the usefulness of determining key environmental issues , particularly given the effort involved.
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The Environmental Department also trains management on specific environmental issues in order to implement procedures to comply with other policy objectives.
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As with so many of the environmental issues that face us now, every little helps.
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The plan gave priority to environmental issues , but also provided for land reform, improved education and administrative and financial decentralization.
law
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It was investigated in 1989 for violations of environmental laws , and production ceased later that year.
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He defied reporters to point out an instance of where Republican-led initiatives succeeded in rolling back environmental laws .
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Its structure aims to allow the reader to compare and contrast aspects of environmental law between different jurisdictions.
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Their unsuccessful efforts included a move to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing provisions of environmental laws now on the books.
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Strong majorities of freshmen want more gun control, tougher environmental laws , and support gay rights.
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Environmentalists pointed out that many of the other environmental laws are under fire in the Legislature and Congress.
management
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It examines the relationship between fertility histories and household labour availability, and the consequences for labour intensive techniques of environmental management .
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A combination of medication, lifestyle adjustments, and environmental management will allow you to control your condition.
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The main topics were environmental management and marine pollution.
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Early workers concentrated on destroying the immature aquatic stages in their breeding places using what we would now call environmental management .
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The initiative will seek to identify the best examples of environmental management to be used for setting a benchmark for the future.
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Yet these human disasters are as much to do with complex social and economic processes as they are with environmental management .
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Once again this highlights the significance of social and administrative factors in environmental management .
matter
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We are committed to openness on environmental matters .
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Full marks for style, but how on earth is he going to cope when environmental matters are on the agenda?
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The preference for directives as opposed to regulations for environmental matters has also been repeatedly expressed.
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Even individuals who follow environmental matters keenly will find new information or a new perspective.
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Author Richard Mabey is a writer and broadcaster on country and environmental matters .
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This organisation provides technical assistance to community groups on planning, housing and environmental matters .
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In this respect Ramsay Spence was given overall responsibility for quality, health, safety and environmental matters during the year.
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Edinburgh's integrated approach to teaching, research and institutional behaviour on environmental matters leads the way for others in higher education.
movement
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In the environmental movement , it was women who led demonstrations and marches and clung to trees to stop them being felled.
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The environmental movement is devoted to-and is itself a form of-conscious evolution.
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Many people have dated the start of the environmental movement to the first sight of the Earth rising over the lunar highlands.
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The more successful the environmental movement becomes, the more radical its partisans become.
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In Britain at least, the role of art in the environmental movement has been fairly marginal.
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As one environmental goal after another is achieved, the environmental movement raises new issues and objectives.
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In the environmental movement the comparable issue is the rights of future generations of humans.
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Much of the environmental movement today appears to fall well within that definition.
performance
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It will also continue to seek ways to reduce emissions further, in line with corporate objectives for continuous improvement in environmental performance .
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Overall responsibility for environmental performance is vested with Brian Baldock, joint Deputy Chairman.
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Manufacturing sites now provide information about their environmental performance to their local communities.
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This included the publication of specific information relating to environmental performance and emissions data.
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Some 114 sites surveyed had improved their environmental performance while that of 30 had deteriorated.
policy
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Among the things they want to know are: what are the company's social and environmental policies ?
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Although these can be valuable instruments of environmental policy , the application of such requirements to imported products can pose significant difficulties.
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Government takes the lead responsibility in social and environmental policy , including that affecting provision and use of electricity.
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His task would be to promote the government's international environmental policies abroad.
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The environmental policy has progressed from its initial remedial approach to one of prevention and anticipation.
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Trade and environmental policies are therefore inextricably interlinked.
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Communicate our environmental policy to employees, customers and the community.
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It was also accounted for in Government planning guidance and other environmental policies that influence land use.
pollution
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The most important areas were agriculture, energy, environmental pollution , competition regulations, and foreign trade.
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The most obvious examples of spillover costs involve environmental pollution .
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Low level environmental pollution was detected - ie sulphates and nitrates.
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The project has enabled farmers to reduce environmental pollution whilst raising crop yields.
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Heavy industry was developed along the north coast, without any consideration of chemical, atmospheric and environmental pollution .
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Nor do they contribute to environmental pollution by burning fossil fuels.
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They also include the control of environmental pollution , and we could benefit greatly through co-operating further on defence and foreign policy.
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Yet as with many agreements on environmental pollution , voluntary abstention is unsuccessful.
pressure
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However, there will be environmental pressures on packaging and this is going to be a major factor.
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Concepts of strategy introduce consideration of market forces, environmental pressures , and organizational imperatives which form the backdrop for visionary initiatives.
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The structure which is selected is likely to be a compromise between environmental pressures which pull in opposite directions.
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There was, at times, a marked hostility to environmental pressure groups and to the trade union movement.
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But with new technology to exploit and ever greater environmental pressures Mr Middleditch demands top notch advice to maintain that relationship.
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Other environmental pressures could shorten this to nearer the fifty years required by law in the United States.
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Second, there is growing environmental pressure , particularly on organic solvents.
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Energy conservation and environmental pressures are rightly being placed on oil and gas producers in the North sea.
problem
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Among the environmental problems related to coal mining, two are considered here: opencast mining and subsidence damage.
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Their fortunes may thereby serve as an early warning system to humankind of previously unrecognized environmental problems .
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Hydrogeochemical maps are being developed as an aid to interpreting environmental problems such as acidification and agricultural and mining pollution.
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But that could cause other environmental problems .
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In the Galápagos Islands, for example, the attractions of natural beauty and a unique wildlife are leading to serious environmental problems .
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But a new environmental problem is on the horizon.
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A plan to build one in a meadow several years ago was derailed by environmental problems .
project
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SeaWatch encompasses all our environmental projects and was formed to improve everyone's understanding and respect for the seas.
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The three governments will fund specific environmental projects in the region.
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A study based on a volunteer for a show-piece environmental project may turn out to have drawbacks, too.
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The scheme is the latest in a series of environmental projects Wedgwood has run in conjunction with the school.
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The proceeds from the taxes will be used for environmental projects .
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The winner will receive a £25 voucher plus £100 for an environmental project at his or her school.
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Some competitions yield better results than others, particularly worthwhile are environmental projects and also some of the prestigious art competitions.
protection
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The buzz at Geneva last week was about smaller cars, wholesale commitment to environmental protection and rationalised, merged conglomerates.
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New and pressing concerns of geologists are conservation and environmental protection .
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Women are key agents of environmental protection .
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The plan also calls for balancing the budget without deep cuts in Medicare, education and environmental protection .
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On June 12 the Bank had approved a loan of US$29,200 million for an environmental protection and resource conservation project.
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Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., as a day to rally for environmental protection .
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There will have to be compromises about power conservation and environmental protection , and the cost will have to be shared.
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Women are more likely to think around issues of education, of health care, of environmental protection .
quality
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Green eaters go further, buying food with good environmental quality as well.
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Instead of a problem, Tahoe is a showplace to see what the United States has done correctly for environmental quality management.
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Focuses on urban ecology, social equity, land conservation, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental quality .
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An improvement in environmental quality is also an economic improvement if it increases social satisfaction or welfare.
regulation
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These orders, valid into the next century, carried few conditions when granted and would not meet current environmental regulations .
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They are historic issues that developed at a time when environmental regulations did not exist.
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But whatever the actual cost of environmental regulation may be, it is large and commands attention.
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With the number of environmental regulations escalating, companies have naturally turned to outside services for help and advice.
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The space agency and its contractor switched supplies to comply with environmental regulations .
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For most industries, costs attributable to environmental regulations rarely exceed about 1.5 % of the total.
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Above all, the water companies may pass on to their customers any new costs caused by changes in environmental regulations .
science
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One solution has been to create university departments of integrated environmental science or of earth sciences.
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Perhaps concern about the environment has induced them to learn more about a key environmental science .
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In environmental science , interdisciplinarity is all.
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Lawrence River, where she takes samples from polluted water and instructs local residents in environmental sciences .
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We should choose to promote environmentally aware and responsible science - as well as to prioritise investment in environmental science itself.
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He left with a degree in environmental sciences and was employed by the Norfolk Naturalist Trust, a voluntary conservation organisation.
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How does it relate to environmental sciences ?
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Again, relative to most other international environmental science processes, this one is pretty secure.
service
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The range of environmental services on offer is seemingly endless - from environmental auditing to public relations.
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In 1995, it added environmental services .
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The districts collect the rubbish ... take responsibility for housing ... and look after certain environmental services .
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Its remit covers consultancy, training, security, education and training, environmental services and applications development.
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Head of environmental services , Mr Keith Atkinson, told them it would cost around £200,000.
standard
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If anything, competition is bidding up environmental standards .
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The volunteer has to meet all relevant environmental standards , of course.
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Higher environmental standards have to some extent highlighted the problem of offensive odours.
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In addition, environmental standards have improved - sometimes dramatically - and leisure and recreational facilities have been substantially enhanced.
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Countries with initially low environmental standards are not immune to pressures to raise them.
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Under the code, each country would be allowed to meet its own environmental standards .
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Model clauses for contracts and leases will be drafted to meet the higher environmental standards now expected of businesses.
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The garbage giants' advantage was their ability to meet new environmental standards requiring safer, costlier methods of disposal.
study
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Teachers' notes illustrate where the resource fits within the new national guidelines for environmental studies for pupils aged 5-14.
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The environmental studies were the hardest challenges for the Marines because of the strong opposition from area residents, he acknowledged.
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The application of geochemical mapping to environmental studies in developing countries is being investigated.
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Shine, who distrusts photographs, has been conducting environmental studies at the lake for 20 years.
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The question last week was whether the city should launch another in a series of environmental studies .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An oil spill of that size will cause a lot of environmental damage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new environmental cabinet permits simulation of weathering in a wide range of environments.
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According to Samuel Epstein, professor of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois, the reason is obvious.
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And Northamptonshire's environmental health officers are backing up that message.
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The action is exactly reversed in an environmental analysis.
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The pictures sent back to earth tell an important environmental story.
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The planning department of this sixth company questioned the usefulness of determining key environmental issues, particularly given the effort involved.
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These three trends combined to form a more environmental physical geography which may have been late but hopefully not too late.
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We believe a much better understanding of the environmental implications of using secondary aggregates is urgently required.