Sentences with phrase «because less pollution»

Eating seasonally benefits the environment because less pollution is created and less fuel is used to transport the food to market.

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Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now at risk because of increasing consumption, evaporation and pollution.

Larger areas are thought to be generally more effective than smaller ones, Pauly says, because they have a smaller area of edge per volume of protected waters, meaning that there is less opportunity for outside influences, such as illegal fishermen or pollution, to creep into the protected area.

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Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in less coal mined, less coal burned, and less carbon pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.

The «pollution paradigm» of climate change limits the opportunities for addressing or solving the issue, in part because fossil fuel emissions make up such a small fraction of the annual flux of CO2 into the atmosphere (less than 3 %).

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

One is that they will enjoy tax incentives as a buyer of a hybrid car, two is that they will be able to save a lot of money from the rising cost of precious, expensive and limited supply of fuel and three, it will enable them to generate less pollution to the environment because of the extremely low toxic emissions generated by hybrid cars.cash for clothes

Paper made from recycled fibers instead of virgin fibers conserves loads of trees, energy and water, and it prevents air pollution because it requires less energy to produce.

And a charge on pollution would be less regressive than the payroll tax, because the more energy you consume, the more you would pay.

Because they use less energy, ENERGY STAR certified products reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels.

But environmentalists are less enthusiastic about a sales tax because they say it would be difficult to write it in a way that rewarded the fuels that pollute least and penalized those that cause the most pollution.

I have seen estimates that thousands died because of VW's extra pollution, though I suppose the estimates presume that a similar number of cars would have been sold without the defeat devices, and perhaps sales would have been lower because performance with an honest pollution control device might have been less.