environmental claims

collocation in English

meaningsofenvironmentalandclaim

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environmental
adjective
uk
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk
/kleɪm/us
/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In fact, none of the prosecutions covered by the statistics involved environmental claims.
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Clearly most environmental claims would be caught by that provision.
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It is time that we began to check out the environmental claims made for all sorts of products.
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Too many misleading, meaningless and unsubstantiated environmental claims are made for products with the aim of inducing consumers to purchase them.
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The phraseology was such that it can and has been used by those who are producing an ambivalent reply for people pressing for the simplest of environmental claims.
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Making false environmental claims is already illegal.
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The guidelines give advice on the types of substantiation needed to support environmental claims, and give examples of claims that are to be avoided.
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The case has been described as giving birth to environmental litigation and helping create the legal doctrine of standing to bring environmental claims.
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In some countries, involuntary creditors (such as tort victims) also have preferential status, and in others environmental claims have special preferred rights for cleanup costs.
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Lomborg approached environmental claims from a statistical and economic standpoint, and concluded that often the claims made by environmentalists were overstated.
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