Sentences with phrase «bigger air pollution»
China faces bigger air pollution risks since its shale gas deposits generally contain more poisonous hydrogen sulfide than U.S. deposits.
https://www.americanprogress.org/ Not exact matches
The biggest hurdle for the pro-industry side: The rapid expansion of fracking over the last five years has resulted in confirmed cases of drinking water contamination, a house explosion, and air pollution.
Other cities have ambitious programs to apply the Internet of things and big data to cut carbon, relieve traffic congestion and air pollution, and generally make our cities more livable.
Pointing out that it can be difficult for people to make a link between what they eat and our warming world, he told the Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan: «I think people naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them and they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and the idea of greenhouse gases.
Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.
But compare the political capital and resources being poured into tackling this issue with the almost total inaction on the far bigger issue of wider air pollution.
The bigger issue, though, is this is more air pollution, water pollution, and climate change.
«What is the city's big picture vision and strategy for improving mobility in Manhattan and addressing congestion and related issues like air pollution?»
A refinery operating in Richmond since 1901, first as Standard Oil and later as the Chevron Corporation, had long been the city's biggest single source of tax revenues — and air pollution.
On average, traffic is the biggest source of air pollution, responsible for one quarter of particulate matter in the air.
But in Western cities, one of the biggest sources of air pollution is something else entirely: household items like your deodorant and shampoo.
In Western cities, household products like deodorants and paints are a bigger source of air pollution than vehicle exhausts — so here's what we need to do
That carries a big policy implication, Cohen says: It not only «makes both public health and economic sense to clean up dirty places,» but also means there could be significant health benefits from reducing air pollution even in areas that already have relatively tight controls.
It would be more precise to say that volatile compounds from household items like your deodorant and shampoo are one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Western cities (24 February, p 23).
«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.
The biggest challenge was air pollution.
Scientific studies using big data can help take policymakers a long way in figuring out how to mitigate air pollution given local conditions, the researchers said.
International trade in goods and services has a bigger impact on shifting the health burden of air pollution than atmospheric flows, a new study finds.
The biggest improvement was found in year - round (annual) particulate levels, which the ALA attributes to recent efforts to clean up major industrial air pollution sources.
But in Western cities, it turns out one of the biggest sources of air pollution is household items like your hair spray and shampoo.
«Air pollution casts shadow over solar energy production: Hardest - hit areas are big solar investors: China, India, Arabian peninsula.»
Road traffic is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in the rapidly growing cities in southern West Africa.
Indeed, Ma reports, outdoor air pollution from coal was China's biggest source of particulate - related harm.
More recent air pollution exposure made a bigger difference on health, the study authors said.
«It's kind of stunning in that, when you think of sitting in traffic behind the tailpipe of a semi-truck, you assume that exhaust is the big contributor to air pollution,» says Coggan.
I have been living and working in India for the past 43 years and have witnessed a transition in cities (even villages and small towns) toward more air pollution and also big dietary changes from whole grains and healthy unrefined oils to white flour, polished rice, excessive sugar and unlimited availability of milk (white revolution).
Indoor air pollution can be a bigger problem than outdoor, because of the increased use of chemicals, and possible presence of mold spores and pet dander.
Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.
Overall though diet plays a big role for the majority of people, although if for example, your acne is largely due to air pollution, you would naturally see a bigger improvement by eliminating that.
You can take the milk thistle for the recommended 8 weeks and achieve a big reduction in acne, and then solidify the benefits further, building up an armour against the slightest piece of acne from air pollution, harsh sunlight, make - up, or pesticides which have washed into your tap water.
Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.
Volkswagen will keep expanding Chinese operations and start selling battery - powered cars in the biggest auto market as the country rewards electric - vehicle buyers to tackle air pollution.
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On the other hand, this is a big maybe, soot and other pollution when it is in the air I am guessing could reduce the strength of sunlight that reaches the glacier and this possibly could reduce the melting.
Increased rain in the Andean states due to El Niño can have devastating effects, as can the increase in corresponding increase in drought in Indoneasia — and this can lead to big increases in forest fires and air pollution.
Not too long ago, Lloyd wrote about a study that pointed the finger at laser printers as big sources of indoor air pollution.
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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:
I don't know Seth, but I totally agree there's huge potential in electric vehicle retrofits, because the volume of new electric and plug - in hybrid cars is, at present, too small to meet the demand or to make a big dent in local air pollution and global warming emissions.
In December 2012, NRDC issued a report showing one way to make major reductions in carbon pollution at lower cost with bigger benefits than many would expect by using the Clean Air Act to set state - specific targets for carbon pollution limits.
Last week NRDC released a groundbreaking report showing how the Obama Administration can use the Clean Air Act to take a big bite out of carbon pollution from power plants, America's biggest climate polluters.
The World Health Organisation report, mentioned above and summarised in The Guardian, states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk.
There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.
Just take air pollution - this is the second biggest killer globally (about 6 million deaths a year), most of it from fossil fuels.
China has big plans for low - carbon electricity, primarily to reduce air pollution but also with the intent of reducing CO2 emissions and building a true 21st century power grid.
China's biggest cities are choking on smog and air pollution emitted by nearby coal plants, and residents are fed up....
A study published in the journal Nature in September last year showed that outdoor air pollution is linked with 3.3 million premature deaths per year, which is more than those caused by AIDS and malaria making it the world's biggest single killer.
The standards rollback is arguably the Trump administration's single biggest step backward on climate change and air pollution.
These plants create air pollution on our sparsely populated reservation that rivals big cities such as Denver, CO..
The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]