Sentences with phrase «by polluting our air»

, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.

It's one of the most polluting energy sources out there, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.

Not exact matches

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

There are limits beyond which our water and air can be «safely» polluted by the poisons we put into them.

To this end, we support organic agriculture and food production, and eschew practices that destroy the topsoil and pollute the air, land and water with toxic by - products.

Indoor air is usually more polluted than outdoor air, so you can often make a big difference just by opening the windows.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

It's time to treat the earth as our shared home where no one will worry that their air, water, or land is being polluted by poison dug up from the ground,» Nixon said.

Costs for the state's air pollution control system, which under federal law must be paid for by polluting industries, keep sinking under a rising tide of red ink that taxpayers keep bailing out.

But there has been a hitch: Despite the fact that DERA was supposed to be fully implemented by 2010, each year it has been delayed in the state's secret budget negotiations, allowing vehicles with antiquated emission controls used by the state and its contractors to continue to pollute our air and threaten the health of our communities.

This, he said, was not beneficial for Nigeria economically and health-wise, as data at the disposal of government showed that thousands of women and children had died as a result of diseases caused by firewood and kerosene polluted air.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

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.

Thanks to two historic auctions held last week by the US government, the invisible hand of market forces will now help to determine who can pollute American air.

Odors are consumed by microorganisms, so that the more polluted the air, there will be more food for the bacteria without incurring any cost,» said Uribe Lobo.

By 0700 GMT, the level of PM2.5 particulate matter, or tiny particles in the air that are the most hazardous to health, reached a «severely polluted» 466, according to the Shanghai government's monitoring website, http://www.semc.gov.cn/aqi/home/English.aspx.

Unfortunately, indoor air quality is two to five times more polluted than outdoor air, according to UL Environment, GREENGUARD Gold by UL Environment, Parson Healthy Materials Lab, and the U.S. Green Building Council.

By recycling plastic, Febreze and Tesco, in partnership with TerraCycle, help to reduce plastic litter from entering nature's playground and polluting the planet, instead creating play areas for kids to enjoy a bit of fresh air everywhere.

I do not like burning books, especially stinky ones that pollute the air when they burn, like those written by Victoria Strauss, and I am definitely NOT the Write Agenda.

Today air is polluted to a dangerous level due to different activities performed by the human.

Reflections of our society's abundance of products and wasteful attitude through the use of re-appropriated items are present in Leirner's composition of devalued Brazilian currency, Bickerton's use of flotsam, or Caetano de Almeida's geometric paintings composed by polluted Sao Paulo air.

It seems, at least to most people today — using whatever cognitive abilities they have to reference the injuries caused by second hand smoke, that the smoking ban was less unethical than the smoker's unethical behavior that polluted shared air.

After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

According to reports, approximately 1.1 million people in China die every year as a result of the country's polluted air — a figured matched only by India.

Backed by powerful oil, coal, and gas companies, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed repealing America's Clean Power Plan, which would allow these companies to keep polluting our air and destroying our climate — regardless of what it means for everyday citizens or our planet.

There are no health problems caused by wind turbines known to science and wind farms save lives by displacing air polluting coal - fired power stations.

Energy produced by wind doesn't pollute the air with toxins or emit the dangerous greenhouse gases driving climate change.

Is this a show of mere tokenism by the government to its own emission standards, by shutting down just one thermal power plant when more than a hundred of the remaining power plants continue to pollute our air?

All of these potentially fatal pathologies are causes by «exposure to fine particles in polluted air» and not by global warming.

Cassandra Kubes, from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), spoke of the potential to save many lives by cleaning the air — not by total transformation of the energy supply, but simply by choosing the latest and most efficient technologies to reduce polluted fossil fuel emissions.

The Tao of Chinese climate lunacy... polluted air blocking sun from solar panels installed on lake formed by collapsed coal mine.

These consolidated operations produce food in high volume but lead to excessive waste created by large concentrations of animals, often handled in ways that can pollute air and water.

The ComfoAir 70 ERV system offers a balanced ventilation solution by exhausting stale, moist, or polluted air and constantly exchanging it with fresh, filtered air.

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.

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.

So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.

Industrial plants fill the air with smoke and dangerous chemicals, pollute the lakes and streams with waste and toxic by products, and wear out or damage parts of the surrounding land.

Even so, our region continues to be dominated by expensive, dirty fossil plants that burn coal and gas — harming our health and polluting our air and water, as we watch the clean energy economy pass us by.

Jeff Holmstead's job as their lobbyist is to delay any clean air rules, clean water rules or climate change laws that threaten the billions in profit these companies make by getting to pollute for free.

Through the stories of families sickened or financially devastated by polluted water or air, Marsden describes how the government and regulators ignore victims and trample opponents.

The plan is the result of six years of negotiations between Parsi leaders and the Indian government to revive a centuries - old practice that seeks to protect the ancient elements — air, earth, fire and water — from being polluted by either burial or cremation.

External or indirect costs that are not paid, such as treating illness from breathing the air polluted by planes, the costs of climate change, and so forth, add nearly $ 7 billion to the tab.

Again, the point here is that while a handful of companies whose profit margins are improved by being able to pollute may be hindered by air pollution controls, the economy at large sees substantial benefits from everybody else not having to breathe unhealthy air.

Thus, adults who use such substances near buildings occupied by children or adults have a duty to exercise reasonable care to ensure that spraying is not done so close to a structure that fumes are likely to pollute indoor air.

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.

Chemical based cleaners can often pollute the air inside our homes by releasing volatile organic compounds.