Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollution levels»

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.

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.

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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...

The level of air pollution is the most shocking discovery, as dangerous chemicals simply evaporate into the atmosphere, creating harmful levels of pollution that affect the health of the residents.

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.

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.

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 Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $ 115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread dangerous levels of pollution during flooding from Hurricane...

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.

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

At the federal level, the Senate voted down several amendments (detailed summaries available here) that would have restricted EPA's ability to regulate dangerous greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution.

We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero.

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.

«More than 147.6 million people — 47 percent of the nation — live where pollution levels are too often dangerous to breathe.»

Health must be central to policies that stabilize climate change below dangerous levels, drive zero - carbon as well as zero - air pollution and prevent ecosystem disruptions.

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.

«This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human - made (anthropogenic) pollution,» said Hansen.

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

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 pollution.

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.

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.

In addition to increasing poverty in underdeveloped countries, the ruination of the environment is dangerous for the world at large: greenhouse gases, water pollution, and rising sea levels are just a few of the monsters that are growing with total disregard to national borders.

«This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human - made (anthropogenic) pollution,» said study leader James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Air pollution at serious levels is often caused by traffic, heating for homes and businesses, industrial parks, or dangerous mold.

In addition to dangerous lead levels, the Flint River also may have had more pollution than Lake Huron: Soon after the switch, E. coli bacteria were found, prompting advisories to boil the water.