Sentences with phrase «also pollute the air»

But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

Kerosene lamps also pollute the air, and the fuel poses a poisoning hazard, especially to children.

Not exact matches

Further, it's also designed not to pollute air, ground, or water.

However, as humans are exposed to polluting chemicals through food, air, water and skin contact, breastmilk also contains contaminants.

Cycling and walking charity Sustrans» chief executive Xavier Brice said: «The new Government must urgently improve the quality of the air that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliair that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliAir Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycling.

«We think people should know that these particles not only pollute air locally, but they also have these remote climate effects,» Hwang said.

The company also reports that its dyeing method is less polluting and requires less energy to produce than other flooring options, and that all of its carpets have been tested and meet indoor air quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«But they also tend to have less stringent environmental protections and denser populations, so consumer savings, corporate profits and economic development based on trade are costing the lives of people who have to breathe polluted air.»

So polluted air damages our respiratory tissues and also makes the environment in which we live more likely to induce allergy.

Lucky for us the plants can also help clean indoor air on Earth, which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air.

PFOA can also be transported via the atmosphere in two ways: bound to other particles which are emitted from industrial facilities, or because its chemical precursors pollute the air and they then degrade into PFOA.

The herbicides are also building up in rainwater, because the air has become more polluted with pesticides from conventional agriculture and intensive chemical GMO agriculture.

Exposure to rancid food, polluted air, sunlight and electricity and also from cell phone or microwave use will also induce oxygen free radicals.

Also, green house gas pollute the air, make people living surrounding unhealth.

gavin: «They'd also be pretty happy at the concomitant reduction in air pollution, indoor smoke, bronchial disorders, polluted water and smog which contribute to premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellows.

Beijing also has ambitious goals to control air pollution, and restricting car ownership and taking old, polluting vehicles off the road are two measures currently being used.

ExxonMobil's Pegasus rupture also helped underscore the environmental hazards associated with diluted bitumen, or dilbit, which is the combination of thick sludge - like oil, which tends to sink in water, and volatile solvents that evaporate and pollute the air.

Many of the world's cities are suffering from the concentrated use of energy services that emit air pollution, in particular from transport (but also industry, power generation etc.), while many of the poorest rural communities are particularly exposed to toxic fumes as they use polluting solid fuels to cook food and boil water.

On the other hand, humans are also cooling the planet to some degree, by releasing air - polluting particles that lower temperatures by reflecting the sun's energy back into space.

Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels not only pollute our air directly; they also drive climate change, which can indirectly affect the quality of our air.

China has also committed to phasing out coal and cleaning up its polluted air.

The sustained burning of biomass not only releases the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane but also large quantities of carbon monoxide and particulate matter... during major fire years the air quality in Indonesia is many times worse than that in the worlds» most polluted cities.

This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.

Burning fossil fuels not only pollutes our air directly with irritants like particulate matter and soot, but as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and average temperatures rise, they also contribute to higher levels of ground - level ozone that can cause acute and long - term respiratory problems.

It also comes with an air quality filter that will notify you if the air is too polluted, as well as laser - assisted distance measurement which can measure point - to - point distances up to 10 meters.