Sentences with phrase «by the pollution of»

Within the real academic world untainted by the pollution of religion in their brain, there exists much debate as to whether Jesus ever existed.

In this story, children are gifted with a supernatural noise, which is transmitted by touch and echoes the collective howl of creatures affected by the pollution of the planet.

The whole west of Japan is affected by this pollution of tiny air - borne particulate matter.

When Americans do worry about the environment, they worry «a great deal» about the quality of their drinking water, followed by pollution of rivers and lakes.

Another focus of the afternoon rally was the connection to environmental justice, the concept that poor communities and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by pollution of all types.

Make sure you and your family are covered by an adequate health insurance policy, which covers diseases caused by pollution of different types.

Not exact matches

The EPA has long been involved in pollution reduction and air quality improvement by testing and creating alternatives to engine idling of the 15.5 million trucks estimated to be operating in the U.S.

Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April,...

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

«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.

The industrial country has high levels of PM2.5 (particulate matter at 2.5 micrometers), pollution caused by decades of heavy manufacturing and unfettered vehicle exhaust — particularly from motorbikes.

Major emerging economies like India insisted that they should not have to pay for the energy transition, since the world's pollution had been caused by more than a century of economic growth in the U.S. and in Europe.

Dieselgate (as it became known) exposed the extent of the pollution problems caused by diesel vehicles, which until recently accounted for half of new car registrations in the EU.

BENGALURU, April 10 - Vedanta Resources Plc said on Tuesday its application for renewal of consent to operate its copper smelting plant, one of India's biggest, in the South Indian town of Thootukudi was rejected by the state pollution regulator.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.

These innocuous - sounding «glider kits» account for only 5 % of the trucks on the road today but are growing in numbers and are likely to emit one third of all soot and NOX pollution from long - haul trucks by 2025.

But inside, these trucks emit pollution 43 to 55 times the level of a 2014 and 2015 model year, according to studies conducted by the EPA.

«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

Waste and pollution could only be driven to zero by shutting down industry (of all kinds) altogether, and that would have disastrous effects.

Ma developed an interest in environmentalism when a member of his wife's family became sick with an illness that Ma suspected was caused by pollution.

Herrera says her ethically minded stance was influenced by her father, who had family and friends in the manufacturing industry and taught her the importance of supporting low - pollution factories that were considerate of their surrounding communities.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Western Australia's status as a powerhouse in the supply of LNG — the preferred low - pollution fuel in fast - growing Asian economies — is assured, according to a study of the global LNG business by JP Morgan, one of the biggest banks in the US.

The profit that Tesla Motors booked for the third quarter was boosted by the company's record sales of its existing electric vehicles, along with the cost reductions and the sale of pollution tax credits to other car manufacturers.

The expansion of the industry also runs counter to B.C.'s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a commitment to reduce carbon pollution 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020, he said.

What we found is that a well - designed Clean Fuel Standard — informed by experience with similar policies in California and B.C. — would not only help Canada cut pollution in keeping with our commitment under the Paris Agreement, it would create jobs in Canada's clean fuel sector and grow a new segment of our economy.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Most Canadians believe that we can build a stronger economy by taking action to cut carbon pollution — and they see it as one of the prime minister's jobs to deliver that clean growth by investing in clean energy.»

BEIJING China's city of Handan has ordered steel mills to cut production by around 25 percent as part of new measures to curb pollution from April to mid-November, according to a statement on Friday.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

In CETA there is also a provision which says that the costs of pollution are borne by the polluter and requires Canada and Europe to prioritize trade in environmental goods and services related to renewable energy and co-operate on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

By: David Oliveira 20th May 2016 Specialist assessments required for the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the proposed extension and remediation of the discard dump and two pollution control dams at the North Shaft section of local coal mining and beneficiation company Kuyasa Mining's Delmas coal mine is currently... →

Even as China's economy displayed clear signs of a slowdown, consumers bought new vehicles, motivated by some cities» pending restrictions on car purchases to alleviate traffic congestion and air pollution.

The average uneducated dolt stands up on its hind legs and spews venom at «socialists», labeling progressive attempts to limit pollution as top down intellectual dominance of their tiny minds, and by golly nobody is going to tell them how to behave or think!

The number of days with heavy pollution in 28 major cities in the Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei region was reduced by 55.4 percent.

A central part of that framework was a commitment to pricing carbon pollution across the country by 2018.

Thus, as Christians in Latin America we choose life over death by combating the deterioration of the natural environment and the pollution of soil, air, water, and other elements.

The two main commandments Jesus gave in John 13:34 seem to be complemented by Acts 15:20 («But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.»).

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

E) The stories of the people, who are forced to be alienated from their natural abode, whose environments are destroyed and polluted and poisoned by the industrial chemicals and atomic - radiation, whose lifeline is threatened by the deforestization and pollution of the fishery are countless.

This is concretized by the direct experience of pollution and the resulting health problems.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

Long before we reached such population densities, however, we would in all probability have been wiped out by «effluence» — that is, pollution and similar secondary problems of overpopulation.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.