Sentences with phrase «by fossil fuel pollution»

Propelled by fossil fuel pollution, climate change has sent global temperatures soaring.

The Department of Health must produce by Dec. 2018 a cumulative impact analysis to designate communities highly impacted by fossil fuel pollution and climate change in Washington.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

Air pollution has historically been caused by industrialisation and the consequent proliferation in the use of «fossil fuels» (and therefore sulphur dioxide emissions) in the industrial process.

We could make a bold commitment to invest in renewable energy, one that will get us off fossil fuels completely and provide tens of thousands of new jobs — especially in the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

We will gain something, though: millions of tons of carbon pollution pumped into our air by the likeliest alternative, fossil fuels.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York,» stated Bambrick.

If the mathematics of the pollution produced by burning a gallon of fossil fuel seems daunting, it's even worse to look the other way: what went into making that gallon.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

Today, electricity generation is buffeted by numerous factors: access to fossil fuels, peak oil, nuclear security and proliferation, pollution, and climate change.

The position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease was written by experts from the European Society of Cardiology and also recommends decreasing the use of fossil fuels.

And the team gets its rosy results even though it didn't add in the health and environmental costs of the pollution created by burning fossil fuels.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.

But the economic tradeoffs in the natural marketplace are becoming unbalanced by nutrient pollution, most of which can be traced back to nitrogen fertilizers and fossil - fuel consumption.

Seven million people died prematurely in 2012 from air pollution caused by fossil fuel combustion, according to a 2014 report by the World Health Organization.

It is stupid to use irreplaceable fossil fuels to produce food with the by - product of carbon dioxide pollution, when we can do the same using energy from sunlight and actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

But calculating the costs associated with premature death caused by air pollution is complex and has resulted in very different estimates: because of the different methodologies used, the cost of air pollution related to fossil fuel consumption is estimated to be three times higher in the US than the EU.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

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What ensues is a tragic tale of love, a fight against pollution and the greed of consuming fossil fuels, and the existential crises wrought by massive amounts of drug dosing.

As here, refuting Jon Kirwan's concern (# 150): «the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.»

If you want to assume that aerosols resulting from pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels were responsible for the cooling evident from 1940 through the late 70's, then you have no reason to claim ANY degree of warming due to CO2 forcing during any earlier period.

The level «pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels» is not determined by the amount of FF you burn but by what sort of FF you burn and how you burn it.

A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

311 MARodger: «The level «pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels» is not determined by the amount of FF you burn but by what sort of FF you burn and how you burn it.»

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

The primary source of NO2 pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, especially by coal - fired power plants and diesel engine cars, like those in the Volkswagen emissions-gate scandal.

Those who got rich by burning fossil fuels have taken up the available atmospheric space for carbon pollution, leaving little for the rest.

According to a new report by Greenpeace, not only is CCS an extraordinarily expensive, commercially - unproven technology, «CCS proposals maintain our dependence on fossil fuels and exacerbate climate pollution.»

Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions by displacing fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives by reducing the air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.

An APS press release from June 1, 2016 says it is requesting $ 3.6 billion in upgrades and maintenance for the grid; and then lists $ 500M for Ocotillo gas plant refurbishing, plus $ 400M for the 1,636 MW Four Corners coal plant, but rate case testimony by APS general manager of fossil fuel generation John Lucas states that APS will spend $ 435 million on pollution control (Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR) for Four Corners.

For example, traffic pollution has been dramatically reduced by adoption of fossil fuels.

Many are doubly hard - hit by the fossil - fuel economy — disproportionately hurt by its pollution and climate impacts, yet largely excluded from its economic benefits.

REMI concluded that CCL's proposal would create between 2.1 to 2.8 million jobs, reduce carbon pollution by 50 %, increase household incomes, save up to 230,000 lives that would otherwise be lost from the pollution of burning fossil fuels, and add up to 1.3 trillion more to the GDP over a 20 year period.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

Here's a story we all now know well: A small number of groups backed by the fossil fuel industry have for decades shed doubt on the science of climate change, even as the actual scientific community consensus on the issue — that greenhouse gas pollution posed a significant threat to our climate — remained strong and continued to grow stronger.

Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.

It's the vast majority of climate scientists vs (in this particular case) a front group for activities by PR disinformation specialists, financed indirectly by fossil fuel companies and others opposed to regulation of GHG emission pollution.]

For too long, oil companies have reaped massive profits through a monopoly over our transportation options, leaving people with few alternatives to fossil fuels — fuels which are by far Washington's largest source of climate and air pollution.

Increasing solar power would help protect public health by reducing harmful air pollution from the state's fossil fuel - fired power plants.

Unfortunately for the fossil fuel industry, natural gas only reduces pollution by 55 % (compared to coal) at the power plant, and only by 17 % (compared to gasoline) out of car tailpipes.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

Cement, which is mostly commonly composed of calcium silicates, requires heating limestone and other ingredients to 2,640 degrees F (1,450 degrees C) by burning fossil fuels and is the third largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

They ignore the fact that the wind farm will increase health (and reduce deaths) in Australia by reducing the air pollution from fossil - fuelled power stations.

UBS analysts say utilities in Europe need to shut down 30 % of their gas, coal, and oil - fed power capacity by 2017, not to fight global warming, cut pollution, or cut fuel imports, but because renewable energy is pushing fossil fuels off the grid.