Sentences with phrase «fuel pollution»

Of course, this climate - changing consequence of fossil fuel burning will only be an issue if the world continues to pump fossil fuel pollution into the skies.

Finally, talking about the harm caused by global fossil fuel pollution gets us out of a very limited conversation about national emissions.

Some studies suggest this «dirty ice» or «dark snow» is caused by fallout from fossil fuel pollution and forest fires.

It would also enable more of the fossil fuel pollution driving climate change, which is already raising sea levels and causing rampant flooding in Virginia's coastal communities.

The rise of renewables helps, but in order to eliminate fossil - fuel pollution nuclear power is also required, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Media reports by The Guardian in July 2015, Inside Climate News» series, and the Los Angeles Times» partnership investigation with Columbia Graduate School of Journalism graduates led by Steve Coll (author of Private Empire) document what #ExxonKnew about the impact of fossil fuel pollution on climate and when the company knew it.

By JEFF SPROSS (ClimateProgress): A new study has just added to the case that fossil fuel pollution helps drive up cardiovascular disease.

Dr Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA), makes an urgent case for stepping up energy efficiency and fuel pollution measures in emerging megacities.

It will ensure that those who have borne the impacts of fossil fuel pollution also feel relief the soonest.

Fossil fuel pollution results in billions of dollars of health care costs and lost productivity each year.

Offshore oil drilling would threaten Virginia's coastal communities and fishing and tourism industries with devastating spills, while enabling more of the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change and rising sea levels.

This is an era of increasing global fiscal budget constraints, and the trend toward greater industry internalization of fossil - fuel pollution costs and the reduction in fossil fuel subsidies is gaining unstoppable momentum.

HydroInfra Technologies, based in Sweden, claims to have developed the answer to greenhouse gases and fossil fuel emissions, stating that their Hydro Nano Gas (HNG) «instantly neutralises carbon fuel pollution emissions.»

Do you think they will support the types of price increases and severe rationing required to account for fossil fuel pollution clean - up?

As unchecked fossil fuel pollution continues to push global temperatures ever higher, we are frightened for our communities, for communities around the world, and for the world we leave our children.

President Trump is foolishly withdrawing U.S. participation in the 2015 Paris climate accords, putting our country at odds with China, India, Germany, Japan, and more than 190 other countries that have put real plans on the table for cutting fossil fuel pollution in favor of cleaner fuels.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014: The tabling of national climate action commitments by the world's two major polluters, the US and China, adds welcome momentum to what will amount to our first steps in unison down a low carbon development pathway that brings us closer to a phase out fossil fuel pollution in favour of 100 % renewable energy.

The pope adds that there are damaging health effects, particularly for the poor, from fossil fuel pollution.

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A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businessmen are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

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.

And while polluters get rewarded, the communities of color that have born the brunt of fossil fuel pollution, and the working people whose jobs are at risk as we move away from fossil fuels, are left empty handed.

This story is embedded in my heart, and it's why I will continue to march to end fossil fuel pollution «til the day I die.

A decision due from the president this week on whether to pull the U.S. out of the deal involving almost 200 nations could have a domino effect on the participation of other countries in limiting fossil - fuel pollution, making it almost impossible and extremely expensive to stop catastrophic climate change.

The Paris Agreement sealed in 2015 brought together the U.S. and European Union with big developing nations from China to India to Brazil in pledging limits on fossil - fuel pollution and funds to help poorer countries adapt to climate change.

China vowed to step up its program to cut fossil - fuel pollution, spelling out its broadest commitments yet, boosting a United Nations effort to reach a landmark deal on climate change in December.

Using more renewable energy will give Maryland cleaner air and water, helping to protect our residents from the harm of fossil fuel pollution.

Now it's time for DC to lead again — not only in cutting fossil fuel pollution but in creating a more just and sustainable economy for all.

With climate change, it's even more difficult to say with precision how much time there is to wind down fossil fuel pollution.

Now it's time for D.C. to lead again — not only in cutting fossil fuel pollution but in creating a more just and sustainable economy for all.

Judith Howell, SEIU 32BJ member and security officer in D.C., stated: «Fossil fuel pollution and haphazard development affects the citizens in each and every ward of our city.

The survey responses predict a decline in asset values based on damage to company reputations, litigation losses, and regulation to curtail «fossil fuel pollution.»

The holdup threatens to unravel three years of work to complete the Paris Agreement, a landmark deal reached in 2015 that set out an ambition to limit fossil - fuel pollution in all nations for the first time.

The Department of Health must produce by Dec. 2018 a cumulative impact analysis to designate communities highly impacted by fossil fuel pollution and climate change in Washington.

They calculated the cost of renewable electricity generation without subsidies from either state or federal government, and when they made comparisons with fossil power, they factored in the external health and other costs of fossil fuel pollution.

A billion Africans just want to be able to drink clean water and switch on a light and have it stay on and the hell with any fossil fuel pollution or climate change, particularly after breathing dung and leaves smoke in their huts and dwellings for most of their short lives.

It's time for D.C. to lead — not only in cutting fossil fuel pollution, but in creating a more just and sustainable economy for all.

Propelled by fossil fuel pollution, climate change has sent global temperatures soaring.

A vast number of scientists, engineers, and visionary businesspeople are boldly designing a future that is based on low - impact energy pathways and living within safe planetary boundaries; a future in which substantial health gains can be achieved by eliminating fossil - fuel pollution; and a future in which we strive to hand over a liveable planet to posterity.

Pachauri's departure is a blow for UN-led talks that hope to produce by the end of this year a deal to limit fossil - fuel pollution in all nations for the first time.