Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollution»

The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces.

As an engineer I understand how dangerous pollution can be and absolutely support being responsible in preventing pollution and cleaning it up when accidents do happen.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

I helped pass the Maryland Healthy Air Act, which is reducing dangerous pollution from Maryland's coal - fired power plants.

According to the Campaign for Clean Air London had already registered 35 days of dangerous pollution levels by mid-April, exceeding its calendar - year limit.

And, important for many in the movement, he spoke about the need to keep «some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.»

«The bill's cost lowering emissions trading market will cut more dangerous pollution than traditional bureaucratic approaches and promote innovation while spurring American economic growth.»

The plan sets a goal to reduce the state's coal - driven power generation, which is responsible for dangerous pollution such as mercury, soot and carbon dioxide, and calls for investment in renewable energy and energy conservation.

Hang concedes there would be jobs created from hydrofracking, but he says they would come at the cost of potentially dangerous pollution, something Moreau denies.

But Perry's argument, which seems to amount to «environmentalists make a bunch of ballyhoo about pollution, but prosperity and the free market have prevented that dangerous pollution over the last 40 years», astonishingly omits any reference to the Clean Air Act that forced industry to apply pollution controls.

Congress did not give a free pass to some kinds of dangerous pollution simply because other kinds were controlled under another part of the law.

This measure is the tip of the spear in an all - out assault by developers, Big Agriculture and the fossil fuel industry against efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the public from dangerous pollution in their drinking water supplies and in the bodies of water in which they fish and swim,» Jon Devine, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told ThinkProgress in an email.

But judicial determination could take years, allowing Pruitt to give Big Polluters carte blanche to continue dumping dangerous pollution into our atmosphere like it's an open sewer.

The Guardian: Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog on Thursday as the capital suffered the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered safe.

In some eastern cities including Shanghai, levels were off the index that tracks dangerous pollution, with schools closing and flights being cancelled or diverted.

The number of days with dangerous pollution levels have dropped to about 50 a year, down from 160 at the height of Lafarge's operations.

The Clinton EPA, recognizing the danger of mercury and certain other hazardous air pollutants, chose the «maximum achievable control technology» (MACT) method for controlling dangerous pollution at power plants.

The unintended consequences are much higher emission of dangerous pollution, NOX and PM.

It's not hyperbolic to say that these emissions are killing people — but with a relatively minimal investment from utilities, we could clean up this dangerous pollution.