Sentences with phrase «cause less pollution»

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In the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the air.

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

A study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that a Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

I realise how difficult and unlikely it is to realise such a thing but never the less until we as a race realise overpopulation is the the root cause of 99 % of the problems with energy and pollution we are not likely to move forward enough to solve the problem.

Although the offspring seem healthy, the experiment raises the possibility that particle pollution could cause other, less innocuous DNA changes that can be passed on to the next generation.

To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need to be made more efficient, adopting measures ranging from reducing the energy costs of sanitation to constructing buildings that waste less energy.

Asia is now burning a billion tons of coal each year, causing air pollution that is reaching the United States in less than a week.

Increasing pollen has less to do with rising temperatures and more to do with the pollution that is causing climate change.

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

The glaciers going away will hopefully cause human population to drop off drastically, leading to less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, which will allow the usual processes to take over.

There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.

They are now allowing employees to work efficiently from home and the environmental proceeds of such work are clear as there aren't any energy eating offices and neither are their employees driving to work causing less traffic and pollution.

«Suspends air pollution control laws requiring major polluters to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»

«Suspends implementation of air pollution control law (AB 32) requiring major sources of emissions to report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»

The authors say this «slowdown» was caused by a combination of natural ocean cycles, volcanoes going off, less energy coming from the sun and changes in the amounts of tiny particles in the atmosphere, mainly from industrial pollution.

[10] Although new power plants, when equipped with state - of - the - art pollution controls, have significantly less of the type of pollutants that cause acid rain, fine particulate pollution, and mercury toxicity, no currently proposed plants include any equipment to capture emissions of carbon dioxide.

a) «America is closer to energy independence than we've been in decades» b) «natural gas — if extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.»

When we use more clean energy, we also pay less to treat kids suffering from asthma attacks caused by air pollution from coal plants.

This is as to be expected, since continued efforts to reduce atmospheric aerosols in the West have resulted in less dimming (more warming), while in the East increasing pollution has caused more dimming (less warming).

The best estimate from the best science is that people can limit warming from human - caused carbon pollution to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius)-- if society acts now.

So even though it is less fuel efficient, causes more carbon emissions and causes hazardous pollution, it is the right thing to do.

While pollution in some areas provides nuclei for water to condense on to form clouds, in other places there may be soot particles, which could absorb sunlight and cause the cloud to burn off (evaporate) during the day, leaving less cloud to warm the night.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

Here's the State of the Union 2014: «If extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.»

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

Carbon taxes are not going to make the nation less prosperous, they are going to make it more so, since the economic damage from environmental degradation and pollution - caused diseases and death will finally be properly attributed in carbon prices.

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.

The claimant was not a polluter and was no less innocent of having «caused or knowingly permitted» the pollution than the innocent owner or occupiers of the 11 residences.