Coal pollution combined with emissions from China's burgeoning industries and the exhaust of a fast - growing national vehicle fleet are plenty enough to impair breathing and jeopardize health.
Not exact matches
That has helped to boost rates of cardiovascular disease and other health effects of such air
pollution, a problem that
combined with the health effects of air
pollution from industrial
coal burning that costs China roughly $ 66 billion dollars per year and causes 760,000 premature deaths, according to a World Bank report.
«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic
pollution from
coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the
pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries
combined.»
[McCarthy continues:] However, it is important to note that under the proposed carbon
pollution standard for new power plants, companies would not be required to build natural gas
combined cycle units; they would be required to meet a standard of 1000 lbs / MWh, which can be met either through the use of natural gas or by burning
coal along with carbon capture and storage [CCS].
Combined with the US
coal industry's efforts to boost exports, subsidized US
coal could have a similar impact abroad, undermining global efforts to reduce carbon
pollution.
The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming
pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing
coal - fired power plants
combined.
He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from
coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which
combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming
pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.
Combine that with the direct damage that air
pollution from
coal combustion does to human health, and there's a reason why some have called
coal the enemy of the human race.»