Sentences with phrase «for less pollution»

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WorldWise, for instance, makes a point of using only U.S. manufacturers, which it can visit to ensure that they meet its standards; proximity to customers also means energy savings and less pollution.

The second company is paying for its continuing pollution and therefore has an incentive to improve when the cost of doing so is less than the cost of buying extra permits.

«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.

So billions of pounds are to be spent increasing emissions and increasing the number of people suffering from noise pollution, only for a few hundred million to be spent making that situation slightly less worse than it might otherwise have been.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

Less idling will also help to reduce pollution for a cleaner and greener environment.»

Cars stuck in traffic do zero mpg; a motorcycle no matter what capacity will always beat a car on fuel consumption in city traffic and therefore creates considerably less pollution - another reason for encouraging the motorcycle.

Cuomo called for more facts and less emotion as his administration continues to investigate a water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls.

In the bipartisan 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, we increased new fuel economy standards for vehicles, along with other provisions to increase energy efficiency, save drivers money, reduce pollution, and strengthen our security by making America less dependent on foreign oil.

The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.

Larger areas are thought to be generally more effective than smaller ones, Pauly says, because they have a smaller area of edge per volume of protected waters, meaning that there is less opportunity for outside influences, such as illegal fishermen or pollution, to creep into the protected area.

A bear market might seem like a boon for the environment: less overall economic activity, like manufacturing and driving, means less overall pollution.

The Scientific American 50 environmental policy leader of 2002 is still lobbying full steam ahead for less air pollution

This novel blue form of the phenomenon, detailed in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, burns almost soot - free, suggesting it could accomplish those tasks with less pollution than a traditional fire tornado if employed for industrial use — but more data are needed to say for sure, as the tiny efficient tornado has just been discovered out of the blue.

«For every ton of CO2 emitted [into] the atmosphere, the natural sinks are removing less carbon than before,» says biologist Josep «Pep» Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project — an Australia — based research consortium devoted to analyzing the pollution behind global warming.

But much less is known about diffuse nutrient pollution that enters the bay after running off of farms, for example.

(In the U.S., air pollution regulations would make it necessary to ship it to a refinery for final processing or blend it with a less aromatic gasoline.)

«Nitrogen - tracking tools for better crops, less pollution.»

Habitat loss and pollution pose the greatest extinction risk for currently threatened amphibians, while the deadly chytrid fungus remains a lesser but still potent threat.

For comparison, the average Londoner loses four and a half months to air pollution, while the average resident of Manchester lives 3.3 years less than his / her counterpart in Harrow, North London.

The authors acknowledge, however, that these strategies would not be a unilateral win for health: less livestock could lead to poor nutrition in low - income countries, and better housing insulation could lead to health risks from factors such as more indoor air pollution.

By farming insects, we could get more meat from the same amount of grain, use less land for agriculture and cut pollution.

Reducing the need for paper products means less demand for tree cutting — this prevents deforestation, protects wildlife habitats, reduces pollution and other negative effects of paper industry, the third - largest industrial emitter of greenhouse gasses.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

But unlike these mats, a PEMF device does not plug into the grounding outlet in your home — so it actually exposes you to less electrical «pollution» compared to a grounding or earthing mat (for more on the electrical pollution issue with grounding or earthing mats, listen to this podcast).

For one thing, plant - based diets use fewer natural resources (such as water and fossil fuels) and create less pollution than meat - heavy diets.

That means, in turn, less land required to grow the feed for animals, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and less water pollution.

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

nobody likes to spend a lot just to interact with some specialized support staff * micro SD card support * side buttons for flipping pages * wifi only, no need for 3G (cheaper and less signal pollution) * warmer colors * touch screen

-- We use 4 stroke snowmobiles for lower emissions, fuel consumption, low oil use, less sound pollution and fewer belt replacements.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

It would be cheaper for me to have my sewer ending in my backyard, if I didn't mind the stench and disease and expense accompanying that economic choice; fossil fuel pollution is a little less obvious so we've been able to ignore it more easily until now.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

But on balance its going to be a lot easier than in a high population world, and cross border pollution problems will be less for example.

Their energy bills will be $ 100 billion lower over the next decade, and America will have less pollution, more manufacturing, and more jobs for construction workers who need them.

For example, if the government provides an income tax deduction for using, or not using, some pollution related device, the cost of this in lost revenue short term might be offset or more than offset, by the savings in less damage to the environment, as well as savings in cost of other methods of controlling this same environmental hazaFor example, if the government provides an income tax deduction for using, or not using, some pollution related device, the cost of this in lost revenue short term might be offset or more than offset, by the savings in less damage to the environment, as well as savings in cost of other methods of controlling this same environmental hazafor using, or not using, some pollution related device, the cost of this in lost revenue short term might be offset or more than offset, by the savings in less damage to the environment, as well as savings in cost of other methods of controlling this same environmental hazard.

I am all for making fossil fuels cleaner, and much work has already been done to make various fossil fuel devices (coal - fired power stations, internal combustion engines, etc) emit less pollution like NOx, SOx, Hg, Pb, and particulates.

«Despite this pollution, the state of Alabama does not require these plants to monitor for numerous toxic heavy metals typically discharged into the Black Warrior River, much less to control them,» the report says.

Why, then, are we not seeing more ultra-light vehicles on the roads; they could both provide for peoples» desire for relatively high rates of acceleration and produce less pollution.

For a given level of carbon abatement, people deciding to reduce their own carbon pollution will lead to less disruption to polluting industries and hence less economic cost.

The opportunities for improvement are even greater in rapidly developing economies such as China, which now uses much more nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer much less efficiently than either the United States or Europe, and at a much higher cost in pollution and human health.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

National action to fight climate change will also help to cut air pollution, according to the report, which said meeting the UK's carbon emissions target would lead each year to 5,700 less deaths and fewer hospital admissions for lung and heart problems.

The resultant reduced demand for shipping would translate not only to less CO2 (and methane) but less air and water pollution, fewer megaports and, perhaps most importantly, retention or creation of domestic manufacturing jobs.

Another perspective for China is economic and environmental benefits that tackling Climate Change can provide, i.e. less pollution and more importantly fewer anti-dumping charges.

In less than a week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will unveil its first ever carbon pollution standards for existing coal - fired power plants.

Health benefits may include: physical activity from walking and cycling, which can help prevent heart disease, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, and some obesity - related risks; lower urban air pollution concentrations; lower rates of traffic injury risks for users of dedicated bicycle and pedestrian networks; and less noise stress.

Outdoor air pollution targets to reduce concentrations of particulate matter (PM 2.5), globally averaged, return less than $ 1 for every dollar spent.

«California will not weaken its nationally accepted clean car standards, and automakers will continue to meet those higher standards, bringing better gas mileage and less pollution for everyone,» Nichols wrote in a statement emailed to reporters.

The «pollution paradigm» of climate change limits the opportunities for addressing or solving the issue, in part because fossil fuel emissions make up such a small fraction of the annual flux of CO2 into the atmosphere (less than 3 %).