environmental liability
noun[C,usually plural]
ACCOUNTING,ENVIRONMENTukusthecostto acompanyofcleaninguppollutionthat iscausedbyitsactivities:
Thefirmsufferedtax,legal, andenvironmentalliabilities amounting to £396m.
Examplesofenvironmental liability
environmental liability
Costs are minimized by using wastewater for fertilizer, integrating crops for pest protection, maintaining biodiversity, treating water via natural processes, and reducingenvironmentalliability.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Abandoned structures from this era are recognised as a potentialenvironmentalliability.
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Structural equation modelling was applied to determine to what extent back-neck pain and symptoms of anxiety and depression share genetic andenvironmentalliabilityfactors.
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I believe that strongenvironmentalliabilitylegislation will have a preventative effect with regard to environmental damage and will encourage the repair of the damage.
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Environmentalliabilityis an important subject that has received well-deserved attention and caused intensive discussion for many years.
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That is why we have added a text in theenvironmentalliabilityproposal.
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The objective of this study was to investigate a hypothesis of shared vulnerability by examining whether panic attacks and cigarette-smoking share genetic orenvironmentalliabilityfactors.
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Legislation agreed in recent weeks ranges from financial services to rail market opening, to intellectual property rights and toenvironmentalliability.
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Clear rules on co-existence are required, and rules are also required concerningenvironmentalliabilityin relation to genetically modified crops.
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We do not want specific genetic engineering liability, we want generalenvironmentalliability.
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