Sentences with phrase «coal pollution travels»

Coal pollution travels all over the globe.

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But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

Over a four - day period, the combination of fog and coal pollution created a smog so thick, travel became virtually impossible.

Lots of stuff travels to other hemispheres through the ocean and air — California gets enough Chinese coal pollution to challenge the state's air pollution standards.