Sentences with phrase «beyond water pollution»

Beyond water pollution, air pollution is the next - highest - ranking environmental issue.

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Part of the money would be spent on projects beyond gray infrastructure — like replacing water and sewer lines and expanding wastewater plants — and instead pay for ways to prevent water pollution in the first place, proponents said.

The proliferation of the pollution in a variety of sites confirms that pollution in the village goes far beyond the Saint - Gobain facility that state officials have determined is responsible for the PFOA in the municipal water supply and could make finding a new water source more challenging.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

The attempt to increase global living standards (and thereby reduce population growth) by exporting production facilities to regions with lower wage and environmental standards has backfired by increasing levels of water, air and soil pollution — increases that have been felt well beyond the boundaries of those regions.

In North Carolina, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director Mary Anne Hitt joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, along with representatives from Earthjustice and Clean Water Action, for a press conference in Charlotte that emphasized Duke Energy's poor record on coal water polluWater Action, for a press conference in Charlotte that emphasized Duke Energy's poor record on coal water polluwater pollution.

While the University's choice to move beyond coal was certainly a commitment to protect the health of its students and the climate, the University began planning for a transition to natural gas, another fossil fuel that contributes to climate disruption, air, and water pollution.

Beyond the energy issue, water pollution and conservation is also becoming a crisis of similar proportions.

They pointed to a handful of recent cases in which courts have found EPA actions on water pollution to be beyond the agency's authority.