Sentences with phrase «harmed by pollution»

It said the measure would hinder EPA's ability to intervene on behalf of downstream states harmed by pollution coming from a state upstream.

She's organizing to change those laws and ensure that the people harmed by pollution are the ones coming up with the solutions.

Here, as elsewhere, the poor are disproportionately harmed by pollution; they can't afford to get out of its way.

Sen. Kathy Marchione's bill extending the statute of limitations for personal injury lawsuits brought by those harmed by pollution at a Superfund site passed the chamber smoothly, 62 - 0.

Convinced their child will be harmed by the pollutions in the outside world, Mina becomes consumed by protecting her baby, forcing Jude to recognize a terrible truth about why his son's life could be in danger.

Convinced their child will be harmed by the pollutions in the outside world, Mina becomes consumed by protecting her baby, forcing Jude to recognise a terrible truth about why his son's life could be in danger.

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«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

The authors speculate that the stronger association is a result of asthma typically developing at younger ages and that young children are more likely to spend time outdoors and be harmed by air pollution.

By leaving their engines idling for long periods, drivers contribute to air pollution, waste fuel, and produce noise and fumes that harm the environment and public health.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

In nature, nitrogen and phosphate pollution harms aquatic life by spurring the growth of algal blooms.

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

«Because greenhouse pollution does not stay within geographic borders but rather mixes in the atmosphere and affects the climate worldwide, each ton emitted by the United States or a particular U.S. state not only creates domestic harms, but also imposes large externalities on the rest of the world.

, a leading climate skeptic who opposes restrictions on carbon pollution, argued that the administration could harm the U.S. economy by enacting new regulations particularly given the skyrocketing emissions of China and India, Kerry was quick with a challenge.

Climate change is projected to harm human health by increasing ground - level ozone and / or particulate matter air pollution in some locations.

Extremely hot days also will increase the harm caused by another type of air pollution.

But for species that do respond by using lots more energy, pollution could harm them, says Paul Craig.

Role of scientist to develop environment friendly products which do not harm the health of environment by spreading pollution.

The law will also stop the Legislature and local communities from passing laws or ordinances after November 2016 to address any water and air pollution caused by factory farms, harm to other farmers» and residents» land not withstanding.

The Environmental Protection Agency is justified in taking action under the Clean Air Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollution.

Climate change is projected to harm human health by increasing ground - level ozone and / or particulate matter air pollution in some locations.

Colorado's coal - and natural gas - fired power plants harm public health by emitting smog - forming pollution.

Surfrider chapters across the country engage the local restaurant community by educating about plastic pollution, consulting businesses on best practices for the oceans, and help them transition to materials that will truly biodegrade and cause the least amount of harm to our treasured coastlines and oceans.

Earthjustice is protecting our right to breathe clean air by making dirty industries clean up their pollution and prevent the harm they cause to nearby communities.

In rural Australia, acoustical consultants working for the wind industry or other noise polluters are regarded almost universally with complete contempt by those people whose health has been harmed by the noise pollution, regardless of the source of the noise (eg mining, CSG field compressors, gas fired power stations as well as wind turbines).

Do you deny the applicability of the well - established international norm that polluters should pay for the harms caused by their pollution and that if a nation or entity refuses to reduce its ghg emissions it is responsible for any damages or harms caused by their ghg emissions?

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

By cultivating a business - friendly, low «prosperity tax» environment while reducing the harms of carbon pollution, British Columbia's carbon tax has gone from maligned to celebrated, commanding a 64 % public approval rating, according to a 2012 poll.

Advised by Sarah Anderson, Mary Collins graduated from the Bren School in 2012, with a dissertation that investigated sources of disproportionate harm from pollution.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

Protect the «least of these» by prioritizing investments in communities most harmed by air pollution and climate change threats, and ensure a just transition for workers who rely on fossil fuel jobs.

Then, in January 2011, the EPA made history when it vetoed the Spruce mine — the first ever veto of a proposed mine — on the grounds that it would severely harm natural resources in an area where local, low - income communities are already overburdened by mining and its pollution.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

The sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by burning carbon fuels — including harm caused by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.

And there is the reality that — in the name of protecting the environment — closing nuclear plants in every case, from Germany and Vermont to California and Japan, directly and instantly harms the environment by drastically increasing air pollution and promoting the expansion of mining and development for energy production.

The extractionist economy does the most harm to two groups — those already impacted by racism and marginalization, and future generations who will inherit the pollution we put into the air today,» said Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics.

The good news is that a movement is growing within the music industry to amend the harm being done by plastic pollution.

Kelsey is harmed by Defendants» actions and inactions regarding carbon pollution and the resulting climate destabilization and ocean acidification....

As a result, the plaintiffs, residents of rural Ecuador harmed by the defendant Chevron's pollution in the Lago Agrio region, can seek enforcement of a judgment of an Ecuadorian court in Ontario.

The ECHR observed that pollution could interfere with a person's private and family life by harming his or her well - being, and that a state had a duty to ensure the protection of its citizens by regulating the corporations that emit it.

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