Sentences with phrase «as air pollution contribute»

The statement from the University of Washington said the initiative will focus on combating diseases and health disparities and healing the environment, with the understanding that factors such as air pollution contribute to illnesses.

Not exact matches

The analyses show that coal combustion is the single largest source of air pollution - related health impact, contributing to some 366,000 premature deaths in China in 2013, with industry and household combustion as major contributors as well.

Interestingly, marijuana smoking contributed to in - home air pollution about as much as tobacco smoking — the first time such a finding has been reported.

The analysis — «a determination of whether emissions cause or contribute to air pollution which may... endanger public health,» as EPA describes it — would set the stage for an eventual new regulation limiting airplanes» emissions.

The researchers do not recommend that inexperience people burn biomass, as this contributes to air pollution and can trigger tragic blazes, including wildfires.

The fuels used in the cookstoves release lots of particulate matter and greenhouse gases, such as methane, contributing to air pollution, climate change and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Lots of people, cars, factories, and shipping ports, as well as sunny, stagnant weather and a «bowl - like» topography, all contribute to local air pollution.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

«Our results indicate that, pound for pound, coal - burning particles contribute roughly five times as much to heart disease mortality risk as the average air pollution PM 2.5 particle in the United States,» he added.

Other factors may contribute such as air pollution, pesticides and the like.

As the body's largest organ, skin plays a crucial role in protecting against oxidative stressors such as UV radiation, x-rays, cigarette smoke, air - borne allergens, mold and other toxins, industrial chemicals, pollution, emotional stress, and poor diet — all of which contribute to aging and disease and a lot of which we encounter everydaAs the body's largest organ, skin plays a crucial role in protecting against oxidative stressors such as UV radiation, x-rays, cigarette smoke, air - borne allergens, mold and other toxins, industrial chemicals, pollution, emotional stress, and poor diet — all of which contribute to aging and disease and a lot of which we encounter everydaas UV radiation, x-rays, cigarette smoke, air - borne allergens, mold and other toxins, industrial chemicals, pollution, emotional stress, and poor diet — all of which contribute to aging and disease and a lot of which we encounter everyday.

In newer school buildings the trend towards tightly sealed construction design — to reduce noise for example — plus the use of certain synthetic building materials, toxic paints and varnishes, and items of furniture and carpets that off - gas chemicals such as formaldehyde, all contribute to indoor air pollution.

These are also signs that we are responsible members of our communities as we do not let our dogs contribute to land, air, and water pollution by simply dumping their wastes on open ground.

Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.

RE # 39, Air pollution also aborts fetuses & causes fetal damage (as do pesticides — which also contribute to GW in their manufacture).

Air pollution risks have also been a concern, as well as methane leaks that contribute to climate change.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been doing its job, as required by the Clean Air Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqAir Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqair pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.»

In addition, fuel efficiency helps reduce toxic ambient air pollutions such as sulfur oxide, nitrous oxide and particulate matter, which contribute to poor air quality in many urbanized areas.

As the climate has become warmer, weather patterns change, contributing to higher levels of air pollution like ground - level ozone that can «cause premature deaths, hospital visits, lost school days, and acute respiratory symptoms.»

«One major contributing factor to China's urban air pollution is emissions from dirty diesel vehicles, including trucks, locomotives and ships, as well as construction and agricultural equipment.

In addition, this project will result in tremendous increases in local air and water pollution, as well as contribute to global climate change.

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

But I've been shifting my thinking based on recent conversations with some of the authors below about the feasibility of incremental management of sun - blocking aerosols, even as warming aerosols contributing to conventional air pollution are reduced.

Meanwhile, we can all contribute to making sure that «lasting legacy» happens a little sooner by reducing our consumption of unnecessary stuff: as China's factories make more and more of the world's consumer goods, their air pollution is our problem as well.

The study comes as corn - ethanol faces increasing criticism from environmentalists who say the increased corn production is worsening air and water pollution, depleting water supplies, driving record high food prices, and contributing to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

129 Furthermore, the fact that, in the context of applying European Union environmental legislation, certain matters contributing to the pollution of the air, sea or land territory of the Member States originate in an event which occurs partly outside that territory is not such as to call into question, in the light of the principles of customary international law capable of being relied upon in the main proceedings, the full applicability of European Union law in that territory (see to this effect, with regard to the application of competition law, Ahlström Osakeyhtiö and Others v Commission, paragraphs 15 to 18, and, with regard to hydrocarbons accidentally spilled beyond a Member State's territorial sea, Case C ‑ 188 / 07 Commune de Mesquer [2008] ECR I ‑ 4501, paragraphs 60 to 62).