Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollutants»

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.

It is extracted from water, and when it burns it produces water and no toxic or otherwise dangerous pollutants.

Section 111 (d) exists precisely to curb dangerous pollutants that are not limited under other parts of the law.

There is no doubt that carbon pollution is a threat to human health and should be strictly limited like other dangerous pollutants.

Diesels are a European thing, a misguided policy trying to lower CO2 emissions which is not a pollutant and instead causing massive increases of dangerous pollutants as NOX and particles.

«Bacteria control levels of dangerous pollutant in seabirds: Mercury levels in cormorants and petrels stable over past 50 years.»

The agency's report shows that inspectors confirmed her story about an overflow and fumes and asked Williams, the company drilling near her home, whether dangerous pollutants had been emitted.

In the face of the Supreme Court decision, the EPA could still refuse to control tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, but such action will prove problematic given the decision and the EPA's mandate to regulate dangerous pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

Arguably the most dangerous pollutant found in salmon is the PCBs, which are strongly associated with cancer and various other health problems (15, 16, 17, 18).

Even natural fragrances such as citrus can react to produce dangerous pollutants indoors.

EDN and its allied groups should have to prove plastics are dangerous pollutants before governments take any actions against them.

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

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.

The emissions from coal - fired power plants are the largest human - caused sources of the neurotoxin mercury, arsenic, cyanide, and a range of other dangerous pollutants, according to the EPA.

In 2008, Chevron proposed to expand its operation to include refining dirty crude, thus increasing its emission of dangerous pollutants.

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.

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

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.

But animal feces can be a dangerous pollutant, and handling liquid waste is messy at best.

The dangerous pollutant ozone, it turns out, is destroyed by hair and body oils, an oddity revealed when researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology compared washed and unwashed hair.

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.

Worse, uranium's chemistry makes it very difficult to remove from water, causing it to be a very persistent and dangerous pollutant.

On the state and global level, leaders are also putting forth clear plans to cut this dangerous pollutant.

Nitrogen is both the most important limiting nutrient on Earth and a dangerous pollutant, so it is important to understand the natural controls on its supply and demand.

But the government recently discovered that at least 140,000 of these masks are counterfeit and might not actually do anything to block out dangerous pollutants.

It can also protect against any toxins and dangerous pollutants.

Other dangerous pollutants have been cut by more than half.

«Barack Obama has said that absent meaningful legislation on emissions within the first 18 months of inauguration, should he win he will allow the EPA to have the authority to regulate GHG emissions as dangerous pollutants.»

Black carbon is the second largest cause of global warming, and this bill will ensure that we have the information we need to address this dangerous pollutant.»

Senators as varied as John Kerry of Massachusetts and James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma — about as far apart on most environmental issues as it's possible to be — united in introducing legislation requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to assess options for cleaning up a «dangerous pollutant» that can hurt people and warm the climate.

Black carbon — a dangerous pollutant emitted by old, dirty diesel engines like school buses — is thought to be the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.

In reality, it reasonably requires only modest reductions of a dangerous pollutant beyond what the unregulated marketplace would accomplish on its own, and gives states tremendous planning flexibility including the ability to opt - out entirely.

I suppose one could argue that it would be better to have a new statute that provides one comprehensive approach to regulating all of the dangerous pollutants that emanate from power plants.

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 lowering carbon emissions, the Clean Power Plan would, in turn, lower these dangerous pollutants, too.

PM2.5 is a dangerous pollutant associated with heart disease, lung cancer, and a range of other harmful health effects.

To their disappointment, this rule requires polluters reduce emissions of heavy metals, toxic gases, and other dangerous pollutants.

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 laggard coal - reliant companies are responsible for ecologically destructive coal mining and the carbon dioxide emissions that drive global climate change, not to mention a litany of dangerous pollutants.