Sentences with phrase «effects of pollution controls»

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She cited the effect of air pollution control laws on independent truckers and small farmers.

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing presented a prime opportunity to study the effect of air pollution controls.

However, the candidate wasn't just curious about the viability of the system as a way of reducing pollution, but also in what effects it would have on disease control and, even more importantly, what loss of life could come about as an effect of the local tendency towards tornados.

He was also interested in controlling environmental damage, but he was mostly thinking about atmospheric and water pollution by power plants and strip mining — including effects of acid rain.

The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it.

However, this offsetting effect is unlikely to remain in the future as improved pollution controls are expected to significantly reduce the cooling effect of aerosols over the course of coming decades: Meinshausen et al (2006).

The program permits easy manipulation of data to test hypotheses about controlling environmental factors, climatic change, and possible growth effects attributed to environmental pollution.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

Scientists researching the effects of noise pollution in mice used silence on the control group.