Sentences with phrase «concerned about air pollution»

On reason some support RPSs is because they are concerned about air pollution from coal.

As such, anti-nuclear groups must continue to change their position on nuclear if they are to credibly claim they are concerned about air pollution and global warming.

People, particularly parents, are growing increasingly aware and concerned about air pollution.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

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.

But they are raising concerns about air pollution from Sarajevo to New Delhi and supplying data to research efforts.

The study, which was led by Dr Rose Meleady, of UEA's School of Psychology, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Tim Hopthrow at the University of Kent, and Dr Julie Van de Vyver at the University of Lincoln, comes amid continued concern about air pollution levels in cities across the UK and worldwide.

«There is concern about air pollution and its health impacts, more so following «diesel-gate»,» said Prof. Andersen.

The terminal decline of coal power is coming at the right time, when ever - cheaper renewables are able to fill in the gap, and concerns about air pollution spread around the country,» he said.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

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Also having plants around will prevent us from pollution and we don't want to happen because we are more concerned about the air they breathe.

Use of disposables raises a concern about solid waste management, while cloth diapers contribute to air and water pollution and possible taxing of municipal water and sewage systems.

Greens did voice concerns about Mr Livingstone's record on road building, regulation of the financial sector and air pollution, however.

There are ongoing, long standing campaigns against proposed expansions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted by local residents groups and environmentalists who are particularly concerned about noise and air pollution.

Concerned about how such pollution was affecting his family, Beijing - based data scientist Yann Boquillod founded AirVisual Earth, an online air pollution map that uses data from satellites and more than 8000 monitoring stations to display global air pollution in real time.

Concerns about the heavy levels of air pollution from some Asian cities are sufficient that Simonich is doing monitoring on Oregon's Mount Bachelor, a 9,065 - foot mountain in the central Oregon Cascade Range.

China said on Monday it would give rewards amounting to 5 billion yuan ($ 816.91 million) for curbing air pollution in six regions where the problem is serious, underscoring government concern about a source of public anger.

So even without concerns about the warming effect of carbon pollution in Earth's atmosphere, the Paris agreement goes a long way toward reducing harmful air pollution worldwide.

A YouGov poll, carried out for Sustrans, has revealed that 43 per cent of children living in urban areas are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school.

In a move that will likely raise concerns among many environmentalists worried about air pollution, whatever waste can not be recycled will be shredded, bailed and transported abroad for incineration in waste - to - energy plants.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

So far, the political pressure to produce domestic oil in a hurry has trumped public concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.

Aside from concerns about climate change, air pollution is becoming a nation - wide problem that is already affecting almost all major coal - consuming provinces.

The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

Concerns about air and water pollution from fracking have put natural gas squarely at the center of America's energy debate.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

I'm not as concerned about the cost of controlling genuine air pollution and the political judgments relating to them, as I am about the claim that CO2 is a pollutant.

Countries, states, cities, and companies are taking action, partly out of concern about climate change, but also because such action is in their own economic interest — either directly (through money - saving efficiency measures like LED street lights) or indirectly (by saving lives now cut short by air pollution).

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

Investment in coal - fired plants fell sharply, with nearly 20 gigawatts (GW) less commissioned, reflecting concerns about local air pollution and the emergence of overcapacity in some markets, notably China, though investment remained elevated in India.

«A coalition of nearly 500 organizations concerned about congressional proposals to weaken the Clean Air Act sent a letter today urging Congress to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect Americans from toxic air pollution.&raqAir Act sent a letter today urging Congress to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect Americans from toxic air pollution.&raqair pollution.»

The environmental justice lobby's concerns about local air pollution are justified: A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights acknowledges that low - income and minority communities face disproportionately high air pollution.

The Sierra Club expressed concern about «the major threats to air and water pollution that citizens in the Barnett Shale [in North Texas] are dealing with firsthand.»