«Often, we think of climate change and
air toxics in terms of effects on adults,» she said.
Not exact matches
While Chinese cities have recently hit more than 500 micrograms of PM 2.5 per cubic meter, Saudi Arabia, on a per - country average, has the most
toxic air in the world.
Originally, I had planned to interview Branson there, but the festival and race had to be canceled due to wildfires
in the region that filled the
air with
toxic smoke.
It won't get sick from working
in extreme heat or cold, or from exposure to
toxic substances or poor
air quality.
There are pollutants
in the
air conditioning,
toxic particles, dangerous bacteria and mold all flying around, especially
in buildings that aren't well taken care of.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education,
air pollution /
toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models
in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills
in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding
in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects
in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back
in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
My girls are breathing
in toxic air every day.
The
air quality
in the surrounding valleys may be just as
toxic.
Organic agriculture protects the health of people and the planet by reducing overall exposure to
toxic chemicals from synthetic pesticides that can end up
in the ground,
air, water and food supply, and that are associated with health consequences, from asthma to cancer.
And adverse physical surroundings do play a role
in children's development, especially when they are literally
toxic, as when children are exposed to lead
in their drinking water or carbon monoxide
in the
air they breathe.
This is because conventional laundry detergents are full of
toxic chemicals and these chemicals leave a residue on your clothing that may be absorbed by your skin or may evaporate into the
air for you to breathe
in.
As an environmental engineer, I specialized
in air quality and
air toxic issues, including risk assessment, and Proposition 65, California's
toxic exposure and warning law.
For this reason, the EPA has found the
air quality
in our homes to be 2 — 5 times more
toxic than the
air outside.
In the first federal effort to address serious
air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new
air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture
toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.
Children should be «bussed
in» from the countryside to breathe
in London's
air Boris Johnson claimed this week, as new figures revealed
toxic levels of pollution
in the capital.
Trump's sliding popularity, evident
in polls taken since the first presidential debate, could convince Democrats that the GOP leader is too
toxic to ignore on
air.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (a coward /
in my opinion) has the obligation to the people of our state to investigate all off these allegation's
in a public forum and remove this tyrant who is quick to call a deceased 9/11 responder who had died from breathing
in the
toxic air at ground zero «not a hero» should be removed from public office and sent packing to his corporate headquarters were he and his cronies could abuse more pregnant women.I have a friend who was a 9/11 responder and was just notified that something was growing
in his lungs.
Janeway also objected to a policy rider that would restrict disclosure of
toxic and hazardous
air pollution, including ammonia or hydrogen sulfide, released by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
in rural communities.
The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean
Air Act and the
Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically
in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.
Some days, it'll be hard to fathom how
in the world you'll get through it (especially if the
air in your lab is thick with
Toxic Lab fumes), but you'll manage.
By breaking up petroleum into smaller droplets that dissolved faster
in the deep ocean, the dispersants decreased the amounts of volatile
toxic compounds that rose to the surface and outgassed into the
air.
Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's
Air Quality Division who studies
toxic organic pollutants
in the Arctic, said that
in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored
in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.
Toxic Combination Two common types of fungi that live
in the
air and soil, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, produce aflatoxin.
«We have little information about what happens to propylene glycol
in the
air,» the federal Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says on its Web site.
While tougher regulations have driven lead levels down globally since the 1990s, mercury levels
in the North Pacific Ocean have increased 30 percent over the last 20 years, potentially putting humans at higher risk of exposure from seafood (See «Made
in China: Our
Toxic, Imported
Air Pollution»).
Some compounds, including more
toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, may volatilize back into the
air, while others accumulate
in the snow and are released with meltwater.
The technologies that have been developed «are just working tremendously well, and they're very effective
in reducing the [particulate matter] and all the hydrocarbons and the
air toxics to near zero levels,» he said.
Yates released 4.7 million pounds of
toxic chemicals into the air, land and water in 2011, according to the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory data
toxic chemicals into the
air, land and water
in 2011, according to the EPA's
Toxic Release Inventory data
Toxic Release Inventory database.
The 2015 EPA Mercury and
Air Toxics Standards regulation was estimated to cost the industry around of $ 9.6 billion annually
in 2020.
Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic
air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both
toxic to the body
in large amounts)
in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam
in Orange County, Calif..
Congressional leaders back
in the politically turbulent 1970s managed to pass sweeping laws to ensure clean
air and water, protect endangered species and keep
toxic substances out of everyday household products.
In some cases, those new, natural processes proved more cost - effective for the company and became a new way of doing business, such as Portland's Prosoco, which completely reworked a formula to eliminate
toxic phthalates from its
air - tight liquid building wrap.
After seeing the regional effects
in this new study, she agrees that the
toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric
air,» she says.
As gas eats into coal plants» profit margins, new limits on mercury and
air toxics emissions taking effect
in 2015 will take another bite.
Doctors believe he is one of a small but growing number of Vietnamese children who are third - generation victims of the
toxic pesticides —
in particular Agent Orange — that were sprayed over the country by the US
Air Force at the height of the Vietnam War 30 years ago.
The biggest winner,
in terms of absolute increases, is
air toxics and quality, for which the administration is requesting a $ 17 million (16.3 %) increase.
Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed
in hazy
toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of
air pollution
in California.
Now researchers led by a group at Princeton University have developed a new technique using nanosize materials that sets the stage for new lenses that eliminate the errors and image distortion inherent
in today's optical technology — and may one day be used to check for
toxic chemicals
in the
air and the body.
The EPA's Mercury and
Air Toxics Standard (MATS) applies to 1,400 of the country's largest power plants and would come into force
in 2015, or
in some cases, 2016.
That work, published online
in Environmental Health Perspectives on May 4, found that living near
toxic sites leads to health impacts comparable to all the combined malaria issues
in those three countries, or as much as the total negative impacts of
air pollution.
As Elizabeth Grossman reveals
in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden
Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the
air, water, and soil.
Even as regulatory measures were put
in place — the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean
Air Act, the
Toxic Substances Control Act — epidemiologists hurried to analyze the risks.
Others include:
toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately
in China;
air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient
in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.
In babies born pre-closure, researchers found higher levels of PAH - DNA cord adducts, a biomarker for exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a
toxic component of
air pollution from coal plants.
Scientists now think that massive volcanic activity,
in a Large Igneous Province called the Siberian Traps, raised
air and sea temperatures and released
toxic amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over a very short period of time.
Labs on the hit list include an
air quality research center
in Ames, Iowa, an acoustics laboratory
in Oxford, Mississippi, and a tiny Utah center that studies «locoweeds,» plants that are
toxic to livestock.
A similar strategy made it harder for opponents to challenge the Mercury and
Air Toxics Standards for coal plants
in court, Holmstead said.
Comments from the state's Energy and Environment Cabinet note that ratepayers
in the state would be stuck with a $ 4.5 billion bill for coal plants that were retrofitted to comply with EPA's Mercury and
Air Toxics Standards if they are not allowed to operate.
The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known
toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs
in chemical assessments and blocked certain state
air and water pollution laws.
The state declared endosulfan a
toxic air contaminant
in 2008, which triggered efforts to reduce people's exposure.