The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.

The staff said the plant posed "no undue" risk.

Under normal conditions, mere plants or beasts would pose no threat to a thick-hulled vessel.

Fears have been expressed by campaigners that the huge plant might pose serious health and social risks to people living nearby.

As for environmental protection, the plain fact is that modern waste-to-energy plants do not pose a threat to our air or water supplies.

Certain plants, however, pose problems every year, and their complete removal may prove to be the only solution.

That's not practical, and isn't always necessary, since one can surmise which plants might pose problems.

In addition, the plant may pose broader ecological risks.

To critics, however, the leak is one more sign that the 19-year-old plant poses an unacceptable risk to the metropolitan region.

Illegal plant poaching has posed a major threat to Ceratozamia species.