Sentences with phrase «dollars of damage annually»

With hurricanes and monsoons and whatnot blowing in off of the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean causing millions (if not billions) of dollars of damage annually to properties, life, and limb, you can understand why insurers get «gun shy» about providing affordable coverage.

With hurricanes and monsoons and whatnot blowing in off of the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean causing millions (if not billions) of dollars of damage annually to properties, life, and limb, you can understand why insurers get «gun shy» about providing affordable coverage.

The Formosan and Asian subterranean termites, native to east Asia, are now widespread invasive species, causing billions of dollars of damage annually.

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The plant disease still causes billions of dollars in global crop damages annually.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

The Stern Review, published for the UK government in 2006, argued that super-hurricanes, mega heatwaves and the like will cause trillions of dollars in damage annually by 2100.

The damage they cause can cost electric utility companies millions of dollars annually.

Benjy Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for his development of a mathematical model which predicts how disease data and weather patterns could spread spores of the «late blight» fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars in crop damages annually.

Across the globe, billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people.

Experts estimate that cases of identity theft can cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually and the damage doesn't stop with the loss of the person's money.

Aerosol injections are the most prominent solar geoengineering scheme, and a tempting one: at under $ 10 billion annually the estimated direct costs are low when compared to the trillions of dollars in climate damages they might help to offset.

Matt Yglesias points us to a new study, which finds that pollution reduces working productivity — and acts as a drag on the economy: We already know that emissions from coal plants and factories cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to the economy annually, in the form of health care costs (not to mention causing tens of thousands of deaths, respiratory illnesses, missed school and work days, and so forth).

The CPSC is charged with protecting consumers from unreasonable risks of injury, death and property damage from thousands of types of products which cost our nation more than $ 1 trillion dollars annually.

Water damage is one of the most common and costliest disasters your home can experience, costing billions of dollars annually.