Sentences with phrase «for dangerous pollution»

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.

Not exact matches

So plastic pollution is dangerous for people, but how bad is it for the environment?

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.

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.

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 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.

One of Britain's chief advisers on pollution has warned the government not to ignore a system for detecting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that could be dangerous if released into the environment.

«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.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

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.

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.

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.

Air pollution is especially dangerous for children, whose lungs are still developing into adulthood.

For more than a decade after Congress told it to curb dangerous mercury pollution from cement kilns across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to take action.

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.»

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.

«The bottom line for our nation is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon pollution, protect our children from dangerous smog and other serious climate impacts, and help secure a safe and prosperous future.»

«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.

«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.

My testimony, along with the statements of over 1,600 individuals at public hearings across the nation, translated into a proposed rule that would limit dangerous carbon pollution for the first time, the Clean Power Plan.

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.

This implies that there is already enough greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere to cause 2 degrees of warming, bringing about conditions not seen on earth for 2 to 3 million years and constituting, according to the authors, «a degree of warming that would surely yield dangerous climate impacts».

Nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen are necessary for plant growth, but excess nutrients in a water system can cause a dangerous form of pollution known as eutrophication.

It's absolutely hypocritical for Rogers to talk about sustainability and responsibility when Cliffside locks in dangerous climate pollution for another 50 years.

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.