Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollutant in»

The coal industry is one of the most carbon intensive in the world and it is also responsible for other dangerous pollutants in our air, soil, and water.

Not exact matches

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

There are pollutants in the air conditioning, toxic particles, dangerous bacteria and mold all flying around, especially in buildings that aren't well taken care of.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the Obama administration erred when it formally declared greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant worthy of regulations in 2009.

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Those planning to testify next Friday in Washington, D.C., at the hearing say minorities and poor people should no longer bear the burden of these dangerous pollutants.

A range of dangerous pollutants have been found in this water, including bacteria like e. coli, toxic algae, lead, sulfur, excess iron, and general dirt and grit, that are known to lead to a host of health issues from gastrointestinal problems to neurological disorders, as well as reproductive issues.

Berkeley Lab scientists first sounded the warning on thirdhand smoke with a pair of studies in 2010 establishing that nicotine in thirdhand smoke can react with common indoor air pollutants to produce dangerous carcinogens.

Persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, make proteins that are essential for removing toxins from the body less effective, which could prevent humans who consume them through fish from fighting off dangerous toxins in the body.

In fact, the American Lung Association points out that indoor air can be home to a long list of potentially dangerous toxins and pollutants, including bacteria and viruses, carpets, cleaning supplies, mold and dampness, pet dander, radon, smoke, dust mites, paint products and many other chemicals and impurities.

Detox treatments are usually recommended due to exposure to toxic chemicals in the diet or environment, like synthetic chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and other dangerous elements.

Particulate matter, pollen or pollutants: BMW Interior Filters remove all of these dangerous elements and markedly improve the air in the vehicle's interior.

But no one would design a system that says that if EPA chooses to protect the public from Dangerous Pollutant A — in this case, mercury — it may not protect the public from Dangerous Pollutant B — in this case carbon dioxide.

Emission reductions from the Clean Power Plan (including reductions in other dangerous pollutants) could prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths, 90,000 asthma attacks in children, and 300,000 missed work and school days each year.

By Jeffrey Ball and Charles Forelle Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global...

The new rules are expected to save up to 11,000 lives each year and avoid tens of thousands of asthma attacks by ensuring that the dirtiest power plants in the nation install the available technology to cut mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants.

These include an increase in dangerous air pollutants and algae blooms that suffocate fish, coupled with a decrease in crop productivity due to drought.

Once in full operation, Cove Point will also emit thousands of tons of dangerous air pollutants and millions of tons of greenhouse gases that will only add to increased climate disruption.

As plastic debris floats in the seawater, it absorbs dangerous pollutants like PCBs, DDT and PAH.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

Unwilling to accept the injustice to his community, Macerl began organizing farmers, residents, and local groups to collect air quality data that showed a dramatic increase in dangerous pollutants since Lafarge had begun burning petcoke.

Georgia - based Exide took over the smelter in 2000 and ramped up the volume of batteries processed at the plant — and with it, emission levels of dangerous pollutants such as lead and arsenic.

and focus on how local climate variations, UHI and genuinely dangerous atmospheric pollutants can be tackled in practical ways that might actually affect our everyday lives.

Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.

The policies desired by the EPA but which have no chance of being passed by the legislatures will be sued into place using the same «sue and settle» procedure that resulted in CO2 being declared a dangerous pollutant subject to MANDATORY regulation by the EPA, «forcing» the EPA to implement the policy that it wanted but couldn't get through legislative action.

The decision by EPA's chief — to ignore science and declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant anyway — suggests that the EPA chief is simply an «agent of the apparatus» commonly called «apparatchik» in the old USSR.

(and in fact contributing to the coming disaster with every exhalation of the other dangerous pollutant).

We are all taking in one of these dangerous pollutant with every breath!

«These dangerous pollutants can worsen asthma and other respiratory diseases; cause heart attacks, cancers and stroke; and exact an enormous economic toll in terms of health - related costs and lost productivity.

The behavior of the atmosphere can be explained without reference to the «fictitious greenhouse effect» and in particular the attempts to single out CO2 as being almost a dangerous pollutant.

This means that just by targeting these dirty old clunkers, badly tuned rust - buckets, and street racers, we could make a significant impact on air quality, especially in urban areas where the density of vehicles gets high enough for pollutant concentrations to reach dangerous levels.

(Marketwire — 12/09/09) As world leaders began talks on climate change at the United Nations Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long - awaited finding declaring carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous pollutant that must be regulated.

A cattle farmer, the EPA and 70,000 individuals in West Virginia and Ohio took action against chemical giant DuPont for releasing a dangerous pollutant into the water and environment.