Sentences with phrase «goes for the air pollution»

The greenhouse gas pollution of coal - fired power plants is another huge cost that is not factored into the price of electricity (even though 50 % of our power in the US comes from coal), and the same goes for the air pollution caused by the burning of petroleum.

The same goes for the air pollution caused by burning coal.

Not exact matches

Depending upon where you live and how dark your skin is, going outside regularly may be all that is required for you or your baby to generate adequate amounts of vitamin D. However, one of the problems with getting your vitamin D with sun exposure is simply that it's hard to determine how much time outside is needed since it depends on so many factors (skin tone, latitude, time of year, how much skin is exposed, amount of air pollution, etc.) Keep in mind that there is also a concern of sunburn and increased risk of skin cancer with too much sun exposure.

Poortenga told a Michigan Fox News affiliate that families who want to go green will be happy to know that breastfeeding their child will reduce the need for unnecessary energy use (unless bottled, it does not need to be heated up in a microwave) and packaging (natural sources don't add to air pollution or waste).

I know you're against clean air and water and would prefer to have industry control all that stuff, oh wait you can go to Delhi India for all the best in air pollution.

«The data from monitoring sites across western Europe shows PM2.5 levels are going down,» says Gavin Shaddick of the University of Bath, UK, who develops air pollution models for the WHO.

While events in Donora showed that air pollution can have immediate consequences, it took decades for researchers to realize that deaths from smog could be going undetected, lost in the background noise of mortality statistics.

We don't have any nonimpacted systems, and so the question now is how do you keep stuff as natural as possible, given the fact you do have regional air pollution, whether it be nitrogen deposition or dust or whatever — and that's really gonna be hard for the parks.

The authors speculate about the possible explanations for the figures, including increased job stress, but this would not affect older people, and increased air pollution, which is known to go up when economies are thriving, but which doesn't explain the gender differences in the figures.

We ask why cities in China don't control their air pollution and carbon emissions, while we go shopping for produces that include those emissions.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

A simple composite measure of the resources that went into a product (e.g. water, trees), as well as natural resources degraded (e.g. water pollution, air pollution, carbon release, habitat destroyed) in the production for a wide variety of consumable goods (not just food), would enable people to make smarter everyday decisions.

As for now, as deforestation continues, pollution of the air, the land, and the waters continues, the consumption of oil, gas, and coal is the order of the day, and the poor masses of this world are suffering from stresses of food and water scarcity, political conflict and bloody war, well, it is not easy to believe that our musicians are going to start singing any songs of true enlightenment, as concerns both the social and natural environments of ours.

For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, soil erosion, acid rain, destruction of rainforests, ozone depletion - the list goes on.»

«I feel no confidence that this industry is going to embrace carbon dioxide reduction technology when they've been extremely reluctant to adopt technology that's been around for years and years to scrub other pollutants,» Peridas said, referring to grandfathering exemptions under the Clean Air Act addressing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury pollution.

For more information, go to Fracking and air pollution According to the study conducted by professor Robert W. Howarth of Cornell University, «3.6 % to 7.9 % of the methane from shale - gas production escapes to the atmosphere in venting and leaks over the lifetime of a well.»

But we will never be able to completely ignore and forget about them, because they will not go away, ever present with the potential for dreadful air and water pollution from the toxic contents contained within.

For those who can't go too far, travel websites including Ctrip advertise hotels with air filtration systems in places across north China, where numerous cities having issued pollution red alerts.

If there is an incentive for pollution - free power it should go to nuclear plants and coal plants that capture their air pollution, not just wind and solar.

Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought.

Though the EPA has come in for a fair amount of criticism on this site - largely due to its political leanings of late - it goes without saying that its work is tremendously important and that its regular reports, on topics ranging from waste management to air pollution, are well worth the reading.

The same goes for the cooking stove powered by electricity from biomass, although it would produce considerably more air pollution than the biomass stove, and require a much larger area of sustainably managed forest.