Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollution in»

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Such pollution, as Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey explained in 2016, «is especially dangerous because it can get lodged in the lungs and cause long - term health problems like asthma and chronic lung disease.»

But because we committed in Paris to avoiding dangerous global warming, it's already clear that Canada's long - term picture involves very little greenhouse gas pollution.

At some point in the next five to ten years the Supreme Court is likely to rule that pollution of our children's minds is as dangerous as pollution of the air, land and water.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

I would pay them if they worked hard regulating private business pollution levels so I can take my daughter fishing and swimming in our public waterways without fear of getting sick or exposed to dangerous chemicals...

«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.

Schneiderman said data shows 1 - in - 3 residents of New York is «breathing dangerous levels of smog pollution» and the EPA's lack of action threatens citizens» health and safety.

That means two - thirds of the wells tested by the state could have dangerous levels of PFOA, suggesting an extensive pollution plume or multiple plumes in the region.

One in three of Britain's beaches were too dangerous to use this summer because of water pollution, the government had admitted.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

In November, Paul Francis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary for health and human services, requested a call with EPA officials who had raised concerns that the water pollution was at a dangerous level, the newly obtained records show.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

The findings suggest that policymakers in Brazil and across the developing world should pay more attention to the negative health impact of pollution from fires that are often part of traditional farming techniques, even though the pollution doesn't usually reach levels considered dangerous by industrial standards.

The world is on track for dangerous climate change, having nearly lost room for further pollution in the mix of gases that make up the atmosphere.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.

«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.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest issues in present time, more and more people are getting caught in the dangerous arms of air pollution.

If this air pollution is not limited by the today it can proves very dangerous in the coming time when people will suffer by taking breath even.

«Electromagnetic pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced in this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.»

WWF Scotland has accused the Scottish government of taking a «complacent» approach to «dangerous» levels of air pollution in Scottish cities, caused mostly by motorised traffic.

«There could be less pollution drifting into New York and other northeastern states» Right on the heels of the study saying that soot in the air might be more dangerous than previously thought comes some good news: «Judge Larry McKinney today issued a

One recent report found that a staggering 175 million Americans — 6 out of 10 people — live in areas where particulate pollution reaches dangerous levels.

In fact, reports from the countryside reveal a dangerous epidemic of «cancer villages» linked to pollution from some of the very industries propelling China's explosive economy.

One day these swarms could perform environmental monitoring in situations where it would be dangerous for people to go, like diving to survey oil spills, checking for nuclear pollution or just exploring great depths.

President Barack Obama counted the trend among his environmental accomplishments in his State of the Union address last month: «Over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.»

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.

The power industry is in rapid transition due to market forces, and the Clean Power Plan asks for a modest amount more to control a very dangerous form of pollution than the unregulated marketplace on its own.

In winter, especially, air pollution from diesel vehicles can reach dangerous levels and keep vulnerable children and seniors restricted indoors.

Over the past few years, the government has been forced to act after pollution levels reached crisis levels: for 26 out of 31 days in January 2013, pollution levels in Beijing were too dangerous for inhabitants to remain outdoors.

«The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America...» — Carol Browner, former US Director of Energy and Climate Change, PRNewswire, May 15, 2010

It is, in reality, an extremely dangerous and seductive term that obscures the very real pollution that would occur even with «clean coal» electricity production.

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.»

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

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

«It sets achievable limits on dangerous carbon pollution, spurs investments in new clean energy technologies, and provides certainty for industry,» Congressman Waxman said in a statement.

but then according to your definition any substance that can grow as a proportion of your environment until it becomes dangerous (eg water) can kill you (though you will not curse «pollution» in your dying breath)

Since RGGI went into effect, the nine states have cut carbon pollution by 51 percent, making important progress toward the 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say we must reach by 2050 to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change.

In less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollutioIn less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollutioin the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollution.

It will result in sharp reductions in urban air pollution, especially the most dangerous forms of particulates, starting in a few years time.

«The episode is yet more evidence that anti-nuclear groups are willing to increase dangerous air pollution and risk catastrophic climate change in service of an ideological agenda that rests upon pseudo-science.»

The Korea Meteorological Administration announced that the average atmospheric concentration of particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers (PM10) on the day was 228 micrograms per cubic meter, the most dangerous level in its five - level air pollution scale.

First, Dr Rajendra Pachauri - chairman of the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)- told a UN conference in Mauritius that the pollution which causes global warming has reached «dangerous» levels.

Many sources of waste biomass are mixed with recyclable materials and potentially dangerous contaminants; sorting and pollution control technologies are needed to ensure it is used in an environmentally friendly manner.

Some of the highlights of the first day were the intervention of Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, live from the Antarctica who analysed the unprecedented speed of climate change in the polar regions, pollution of the waters and the dangerous sea level rise.

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.

Furthermore, it is already a settled principle in international law that polluters should pay for their pollution, that nations should reduce their emissions to prevent dangerous climate change on the basis of «equity,» not national interest, and that nations should prevent their citizens from doing harm to people outside their national jurisdictional boundaries.

The states represented here today have long been working hard to sound the alarm, to put smart policies in place, to speed our transition to a clean energy future, and to stop power plants from emitting millions of tons of dangerous global - warming pollution into our air.»