Sentences with phrase «caused by pollution»

The injury or property damage can be shown to have been caused by a pollution event that occurred after the retroactive date on your policy.
Make sure you and your family are covered by an adequate health insurance policy, which covers diseases caused by pollution of different types.
Check the benefits and coverage offered by a health insurance policy, which is important to fight against health hazards caused by pollution:
This leads to a pesky problem — we could decarbonize our economy entirely, and we still could face the consequences of climate change caused by pollution from decades past.
DAVID BRINKLEY, ABC News: Is this summer's terrible heat just temporary freakish weather, or is there a change in the atmosphere caused by our pollution?
The researchers calculated that calcite could not only reflect light into space and cool the planet, but actively repair the ozone layer by neutralizing the acids caused by pollution that kick off harmful chemical reactions.
Problems no doubt caused by pollution from runoff of things like fertilizers, animal waste, human waste, sewage, and the dumping of chemicals that could also be causing fish decline.
Here are some simple but effective things to do to help save the planet from the destruction caused by pollution, greenhouse gases and global warming.
Do you deny the applicability of the well - established international norm that polluters should pay for the harms caused by their pollution and that if a nation or entity refuses to reduce its ghg emissions it is responsible for any damages or harms caused by their ghg emissions?
Together we aim to cut the number of deaths caused by pollution by half by 2030.
Fred Singer, a true «scientist for hire» who has also claimed that second hand tobacco smoke is not harmful, acid rain is not caused by pollution, DDT poses no threat to environment, and CFC's are not affecting the ozone.
Dr Rotstayn says that «what our model is suggesting is that these droughts in the Sahel in the 1970s and the 1980s may have been caused by pollution from Europe and North America» and the commentary goes on to say «if his model is correct...» So the science is certainly not presented without caveats, and nowhere do we simply state that global dimming is unquestionably the cause of the Sahel drought.
Taken from these leaves, Tulip Tree Extract removes impurities caused by pollution with a unique cleansing action boosted by Bioglucane, an ingredient that helps balance skin without stripping its natural barrier.
They also help to fight skin damage caused by pollution.
It helps protect skin against aging caused by pollution and stress.
It contains neem and tea extracts which deep cleans the skin and washes away the impurities caused by pollution.
As an antioxidant it helps to protect the body from oxidative damage caused by pollution and toxins.
Expert Mike Dilger thinks the frog could have been caused by pollution or climate change.
«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conference.
In Hoosick Falls, where several banks suspended property financing and declined to issue mortgages last year, the litigation represents a potential recovery for thousands of property owners who believe the values of their homes and businesses were diminished by the stigma caused by the pollution.
After weathering several hours of decidedly negative reaction to her amended legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution, state Sen. Kathy Marchione has decided to go back to the original version of her bill.
A spokesperson for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the new proposal would ensure that the social cost caused by pollution was considered in all government decisions.
Also passing the Senate last night, after considerable back and forth during which its sponsor, Capital Region Republican Sen. Kathy Marchione, twisted herself into a political pretzel, was legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution — a measure intended to help Hoosick Falls residents who are struggling to deal with PFOA contamination of their drinking water.
MomsTeam's goal is to provide comprehensive prevention and treatment information for sports - active children with respiratory conditions - chronic and / or caused by pollution.
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.

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«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.
So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?
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.
Some neighbors have complained that the massive construction project has caused excessive noise, dust and pollution, and other nuisances, according to a recent article by The San Jose Mercury News.
«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.
By 2050, scientists predict air pollution may cause 6.6 million premature deaths annually.
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.
«Unless action is taken to control outdoor air pollution, studies show that outdoor air pollution will become the leading cause of environment - related child death by 2050,» the report says.
Much pollution, of the ocean, for example, is caused in the process of transportation, both by accidents and by standard practices.
There have been many Okinawan protests against the rapes, crimes, accidents, and pollution caused by this sort of concentration of American troops and weaponry, but so far the U. S. military — in collusion with the Japanese government — has ignored them.
CAPTION By University of Florida Mercury pollution causes a surprising tendency of male white ibis birds to mate with other males, finds a new University of Florida study.
At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
By the late 1980s it became clear that global atmospheric pollution causing both the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer had become critical threats to life on earth (Henderson - Sellers & Blong 1989).
Preston (1991), who values the economic efficiency of the market, nevertheless acknowledges that left to itself the market leads to great inequalities of wealth and is unable to cope with environmental degradation such as is caused by industrial pollution.
There is still little interest in changing the way growth is measured, but many of our leaders have now recognized that the pollution caused by industrial development threatens the human future.
Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.
The Karst region of northern Lithuania has suffered greatly from pollution caused by intensive agriculture and high rates of fertilizer and pesticide application encouraged in the 1950s and 1960s.
The HRNRDF is funded by General Electric, as part of the company's mitigation agreement developed in the wake of pollution caused over generations by GE's former manufacturing complex on the Housatonic in Pittsfield.
The state Thruway Authority would be required to give 10 percent of the tolls it collects on the Grand Island bridges to three communities affected by pollution caused by the toll booths traffic under a bill introduced by Sen. Chris Jacobs.
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.
Concerns about air pollution range from the very local - many rural and suburban councils cite the nuisance caused by bonfires as their principal air pollution problem - to the truly global.
We'd likely have an increase in the 40,000 premature deaths already caused by air pollution in the UK.
The left's primary fears on Reagan was that he might have lacked the necessary education, backed up by some quotes from him like «trees cause pollution» and «Poland wasn't part of the USSR».
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