Sentences with phrase «air pollution kills»

«These people validate and rubber - stamp the EPA's conclusion that air pollution kills people.»

A new study by Berkeley Earth shows just how bad things have gotten there, despite some positive steps in the right direction lately: The new study shows that air pollution kills an average of 4000 people every day in China, 17 % of all China's deaths.

Additionally, natural gas contributes half as much to global warming as coal, but natural gas air pollution kills many fewer.

3) Indoor air pollution kills between 3.5 million and 4.3 million people a year.

All told, indoor air pollution kills between 3.5 million and 4.3 million people each year.

Air pollution kills more children than malaria and HIV combined.

While outdoor air pollution kills, it also — inadvertently — counteracts some of the warming effects of CO2.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) released a report very recently indicating that air pollution kills around seven million people each year.

Air pollution kills as many as eight million people prematurely across the globe annually but mostly in developing countries.

Air pollution kills nearly 55,000, 35,000 and 25,000 annually in the U.S., Germany and Japan respectively, according to research in the journal Nature.

Air pollution kills about 3 million people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Around the world, outdoor air pollution kills 800,000 people a year and sickens many more.

Not exact matches

But air pollution is also killing people in the United States.

When it's not horrific mining accidents like the one in Soma, Turkey, on May 13 that killed more than 300 miners, it's the 13,000 Americans who die early each year because of air pollution from burning the dirtiest fossil fuel.

«Wasatch Front air pollution is not just something to complain about, it is killing us.»

The latest cancer statistics in China also showed how smoking and air pollution, on top of other risk factors, are killing the local population with carcinogens.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

Countless studies have shown the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory health — killing millions each year.

Destroy silos, hijack or blow up their supply convoys, sabotage their pollution schemes, bombard their settlements, kill their VIP commanders, destroy their air squadrons with your own fighter team, everything here is carefully designed to make you want to cause as much chaos as possible.

According to the Lancet 2010 report, coal alone kills 3.5 million people alone just from the air pollution.

The 112th Congress made a record - breaking 191 votes to kill air pollution rules, protect Big Oil subsidies, and block efforts to fight climate change, earning it this dubious distinction:

We can do so just fine with renewable energy sources, and in the process we will avoid poisoning the third world with air and water pollution and killing large numbers of coal miners.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

He is, of course, partially right — sand from the Sahara is currently blowing over to Britain, exacerbating London's already problematic air quality issues — but that sand is only adding to pollution which is already harming and even killing Londoners on a daily basis.

Air pollution from coal burning kills more than 100,000 people per year.

It can be calculated that burning this coal will cause air pollution that will kill more than seven thousand people each year;

It is a major component of the stew of air pollution that kills more than 7 million people every year.

[Translate] Environment Air pollution from the world's largest denim companies kills thousands of people a day in China.

The number of deaths from this kind of indoor air pollution currently kills more people each year than malaria or tuberculosis according to the IEA report.»

Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions by displacing fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives by reducing the air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.

Oil and Coal companies are laughing their asses off at the thought of people being against wind power because it kills birds — even if it were true (which it is not) could clean small wind power possibly kill as many birds as oil spills and ground water and air pollution from coal / oil power?

Wind turbines can and do replace coal - burning power stations and the World Health Organisation tells us that air pollution, much of it from burning coal, kills seven million people each year.

Many people know that power plants are a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gasses; however, few are aware that many of those same plants kill and injure fish and other aquatic life.

If we make it to next week, we'll look at another double - sided threat: air pollution is killing millions, but if we clean it up, the global mean temperature may go up as much as 1 degree C. We'll hear what the scientists say about new research.

The real answer, sadly often, is indeed air pollution, which kills some 3 to 6 million people a year globally.

Indoor air pollution in developing countries kills more than 3.5 million a year, almost all are women who cook the food over fires.

Apart from climate change, the World Health Organisation tells us that air pollution from burning coal is killing millions of people each year.

Air pollution from coal - fired power stations kills more than 2,200 South Africans every year, and causes thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma in adults and children annually.

The indoor air pollution from these fires causes blindness, asthma and severe lung infections that kill a million women and young children every year.

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

According to the World Health Organization, the resulting air pollution from this and burning biomass kills seven million people every year.

On the other hand, there is absolutely no doubt that the burning of coal producing air pollution that kills millions world - wide each year and damages our atmosphere and our oceans through climate change.

On the other hand air pollution from the burning of coal kills millions of people each year, as reported by the World Health Organisation, and renewable energy, including wind power, displaces coal fired power.

One study estimated air pollution from fires, which can linger for days to months, already kills 300,000 people a year worldwide.

He shows no sign at all of being concerned that coal - fired power stations cause climate change and ocean acidification, and kill many people and make many more seriously ill due to their air pollution.

Air pollution from the burning of coal causes serious diseases and kills millions of people annually world - wide.

Apart from that, wind power saves lives because it reduces the air pollution from coal - fired power stations that kills millions of people each year: one in eight of all deaths worldwide are due to air pollution according to the World Health Organisation.

It can conservatively be estimated that the air pollution from the burning of coal kills at least two million people world - wide each year.

Air pollution from burning coal, driving cars, and using fire to clear land, among other activities, is the fourth - leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 5.5 million people each year.

A Clean Air Task Force study states that pollution from Fisk and Crawford kills 40 people every year.