Sentences with phrase «air and water quality»

«But we now know from extensive research is that trees are also the lungs of our city and do a lot to improve air and water quality and have other environmental benefits.

Among the community attributes included in the survey, the quality of the environment, including air and water quality, is rated as a top priority or high priority by 87 percent of Americans.

Implementing green practices reduces waste, conserves natural resources, improves air and water quality, and protects biodiversity.

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Seattle, WA About Blog Find stories on land use, climate change, air and water quality, radiation, toxins and other environmental issues.

We provide astute representation in litigation and regulatory matters involving hazardous substances and wastes, air and water quality, land use, CEQA, toxic torts and other environmental matters.

Mark represents clients in projects and litigation covering the gamut of environmental laws including air and water quality, the ESA, NEPA, CERCLA and their state equivalents.

He has successfully represented clients in matters involving hazardous substances, air and water quality, land use, toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory issues.

This transition has greatly harmed air and water quality.

We are perhaps fooled by past efforts at reducing pollution, where we have greatly improved air and water quality when we wanted to.

The document describes the involvement in sustainable development and partnerships in biodiversity and habitat, energy and climate change, air and water quality, and waste management.

Five ethanol facilities in Minnesota have been cited in the past 12 months for widespread air and water quality violations.

It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.

In the U.S., starting with the 1970s, the air and water quality has been dramatically improving; the number of people who smoke has dropped like a stone; the pharmaceutical / medical / health care research complex has produced wondrous solutions for communicable diseases; and yet, despite all that good news, the overall health of Americans and their lifespans have in some respects actually declined.

A community that generates revenue by producing excess energy, has superior air and water quality, and a world class infrastructure that enables and enhances the very essence of community.

As established in the 2016 U.S. Climate and Health Assessment — The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment — the resulting changes in our climate are creating conditions that harm human health through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechanisms.

A majority of Americans say the federal government isn't doing enough to protect air and water quality.

for BLM air and water quality monitoring activities intended to make oil and gas permitting safer.

At the same time, the reforestation of degraded land can improve biodiversity, enhance habitats for wildlife, improve air and water quality, provide soil filtration, control erosion, and prevent heat islands.

Hotter temperatures also pose threats directly to human health, including more heat waves, worsening air and water quality, and increases in infectious diseases.

Even as Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape designs continue to naturally ease urban flooding and improve air and water quality on our cities, just as he imagined they would, few urban dwellers see his works as anything more than ornamental wonders and respite from the harder urban world.

HEAL challenges air and water quality permits for coal plants that do not adequately protect public health and the environment

Helps bring sustainable development benefits to communities, such as improved air and water quality, improved income, improved health, reduced energy consumption and much more;

U.S. air and water quality have improved dramatically during the past several decades because of the creation of reasonable federal standards for criteria pollutants, such as sulfur, carbon monoxide, and particulates, and allowing the affected companies to choose the most effective and least expensive means to comply.

The failure of OSM to address these troublesome programmatic issues is particularly alarming given recent scientific studies that have documented the scale of the impacts to air and water quality, and the link between these impacts and human health problems in Appalachia.

She led successful legislative efforts to establish clean energy programs and accompanying funding sources, clean vehicles and fuel technology standards, air and water quality rules, and natural resources protection programs.

While China does have serious air and water quality problems, they are not from carbon dioxide.

Think resource depletion, acid seas, biodiversity, and ecosystem services like air and water quality, equity, energy independence etc..

Effects on air and water quality, habitats and protected species are addressed through regulations, lease restrictions and fines.

Improving air and water quality would pay dividends in terms of public health and economic productivity.

Shows commitment to a higher quality of life by focusing on air and water quality, pollution, CO2 emissions, and resident equity and engagement

Many thanks to the City of Portland, Ecotrust, the Willamette Partnership and the Urban Greenspaces Institute for helping to pull it together and even more so, for their ongoing work pioneering natural infrastructure innovations that are saving money, beautifying communities, improving air and water quality, and capturing carbon.

It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife and agricultural land — and uses vast amounts of raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air and water quality.

Ashley shares how natural gas fracking in Wester Pennsylvania is impacting her air and water quality.

If you doubt this, contrast the air and water quality in New York City with that of any similar - sized city in the developing world.»

Extreme heat, heavy downpours, and flooding will affect infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, air and water quality, and more.

At the same time, Americans are closely divided (52 % to 48 %) over whether or not it is possible to cut back on regulations while still effectively protecting air and water quality.

Amid these changes, Americans are divided on whether it is possible to cut regulations while still effectively protecting air and water quality, with 52 % saying it is possible and 48 % saying it is not.

On August 11, 2005 Peter Gleick testified before the California Assembly Select Committee on Air and Water Quality.

«Alan Lowenthal has proven that he can create jobs while simultaneously improving coastal air and water quality,» said David Wilmot, Ph.D., Ocean Champions» President and Co-Founder.

«Georgia Power and Plant Scherer comply with all standards for air and water quality that are set by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Georgia Environmental Protection Division,» says Mark Williams, a company spokesman, in an e-mail.

For example, many of my students live in poor, heavily polluted areas, so when we study intermolecular properties and precipitation reactions, we examine the air and water quality in their neighborhoods.

Emissions practices have led to dramatic improvements in air and water quality.

Married with the direct environmental impacts, the indirect co-benefits created include improved air and water quality and quantity, job training and creation of jobs, lessening of extreme weather patterns, storm protection, pest control, increased recreation and tourism through bird watching, hunting, and fishing, and the creation of new technology.

It presents key facts and figures on environmental topics such as waste and recycling, air and water quality, and climate change.

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Some causes of overproduction of free radicals include, poor air and water quality, denatured and excess fatty foods, radiation, computers, cell phones, cigarette smoke and alcohol.

Air and water quality will suffer.

He also said that, despite lawsuits he'd filed to prevent EPA from enforcing lead pollution rules, he believed EPA had a role in regulating air and water quality, especially across state lines.

The cuts target scientific work in fields including climate change, air and water quality, and chemical safety.