Sentences with phrase «harmful pollutants in»

Through runoff, seepage, leaching, or spills, mines often release potentially harmful pollutants in nearby waterways, impacting ecosystems and human communities for generations.

Here's something cool — the aloe leaves will start spotting brown if there are too many harmful pollutants in the air.

Throughout Exxon's global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported.

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It provides your baby a healthy, fresh, and well - moistened environment that combats the dry air and eradicates pollutants as well as harmful microbes in the air.

TBT, tagged as being one of the most harmful pollutants ever made, has been found in both the inner and outer layer of some disposable diapers!

Breathing in pollutants released into the air isn't healthy for developing lungs, but a new study says it's harmful for developing brains too.

Wanting to reduce harmful air pollutants in the South End, Albany County Legislator Samuel Fein is looking to require all permanent petroleum tanks be painted white.

Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.

Harmful gaseous pollutants in the form of volatile organic compounds are often released into the air when chemicals are used, for example in cleaning products.

But it was only through my work in El Paso and Needleman's work in Boston that people came to understand the notion of subclinical toxicity — that pollutants could have harmful effects in children at levels that were too low to produce grossly visible symptoms.

Further studies and environmental monitoring could help identify the most harmful pollutants, which ones should be targeted for reduction in gasoline formulations and in optimization of engines and exhaust treatment technologies, the researchers conclude.

For years, platinum has been offering behind - the - scenes hustle in catalytic converters, which remove harmful pollutants from auto exhaust.

Developing fetuses are very susceptible to the harmful effects of some pollutants, a study in New York city suggests.

He warns, however, that fish caught from local rivers, streams and lakes in many states have been found to contain high levels of mercury and other harmful contaminantssomething anglers should take note of, particularly when it comes to children, who are particularly sensitive to such pollutants.

But there is some good news: Even seemingly small changes in curbing greenhouse gas emissions not only can reduce harmful pollutants and clear the air, but also help to slow climate change.

Senator Tom Carper (DE), top Democrat on the panel, cited an interview in which Hartnett White suggested that low - level ozone, an air pollutant, wasn't harmful unless «you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for 8 hours every day.»

For example, this might include the pollutants toluene or benzene contained in oil and gasoline, which to bacteria with the right genetic makeup are not only not harmful but actually very tasty food.

Amro Hamdoun and Sascha Nicklisch at the University of California at San Diego studied 37 pollutants and their effect on P - gp, a protein in cell membranes that recognises harmful molecules and boots them out.

The indoor environmental quality measured in green buildings is better compared to typical buildings and, as a result, occupants have less exposure to allergens, pollutants and environmental contaminants such as the harmful gas formaldehyde found in some building materials.

In a statement after tonight's vote, Boxer said «the bill has been vastly improved over the original bill, which in my opinion would have been harmful to our families, because it overrode our state laws and set up an ineffective and nonexistent way to regulate most toxic pollutants.&raquIn a statement after tonight's vote, Boxer said «the bill has been vastly improved over the original bill, which in my opinion would have been harmful to our families, because it overrode our state laws and set up an ineffective and nonexistent way to regulate most toxic pollutants.&raquin my opinion would have been harmful to our families, because it overrode our state laws and set up an ineffective and nonexistent way to regulate most toxic pollutants.»

The study finds that titanium dioxide coatings, seen as promising for their role in breaking down airborne pollutants on contact, are likely in real - world conditions to convert abundant ammonia to nitrogen oxide, the key precursor of harmful ozone pollution.

Although gold nanoparticles are inert, the reactive compounds found in nano - pollutants in the air could have all sorts of harmful effects, Miller says.

Tests with wastewater showed the mat can efficiently remove targeted pollutants, in this case a pair of biologically harmful endocrine disruptors, using a fraction of the energy required by other technology.

It occurs naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere, but when it's released at ground level, it becomes a harmful outdoor pollutant.

Particulate matter: Air pollutants can be in the form of particulate matter which can be very harmful to our health.

In automobiles, researchers have struggled to develop a system that seamlessly and easily converts pollutants like nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide to less harmful nitrogen and carbon dioxide — without using a lot of energy.

Being the largest organ of our body, our skin is the first line of defense against the elements and protects our internal vital organs from injury, bacteria and the potential harmful environmental pollutants in our atmosphere.

An overburdened liver will become sluggish and as a result the process of detoxification from harmful medications, alcohol, foodstuff, air pollutants, chemical cleaners, chemicals and heavy metals in our environment will slow down.

Toxins are potentially harmful substances we come into contact with every day — from pesticides on your produce, pollutants in the air, unpronounceable ingredients in processed foods, cleaning products, and even heavy metals like mercury and arsenic in the soil, just to name a few.

Your skin will show clues of aging which include wrinkles, facial lines, and sagging skin because of the action of age; environmental pollutants; inappropriate foods and drinks; sun or sunlamp damage; harmful medications, creams, or oils; skin being stretched because of stretching, incorrect exercises and / or massage; free radicals in your food, the air you breath, liquids you swim in, drink; and from the natural environment.

Berkey reduces harmful pollutants, chlorine, fluorine and toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury without removing the beneficial and healthy nutritional minerals of the water that is needed in maintaining a healthy body and sound mind.

Extremely high in Vitamin E and antioxidants, argan oil softens fine lines, restores elasticity, improves skin tone and helps protect against harmful pollutants, while neutralising the free radicals.

Our skin absorbs toxins from air pollutants, the unfiltered water we bath and swim in, and the harmful chemicals in...

«By taking cars off the road and reducing harmful emissions and pollutants in our nation's most natural and pristine settings, we're helping Americans and visitors from around the world enjoy these public lands as they were meant to be enjoyed,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.

Vehicles equipped with a diesel engine generally return better fuel economy than vehicles equipped with a gasoline engine, but the exhaust is typically more harmful in terms of emissions and particulate pollutants, even when it meets official minimum standards.

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

Emulating the same processes naturally found in rainforests, this prototype filters and cleans water of harmful pollutants.

On CO2 as a fertilizer, in the oceans CO2 is acting as a pollutant and is altering the chemistry (the ph) and the emerging data shows a harmful effect on organisms.

Upon introduction of the bill, Inhofe said, «Moving beyond the confusing, command - and - control mandates of the past, Clear Skies cap - and - trade system harnesses the power of technology and innovation to bring about significant reductions in harmful pollutants.»

It has sometimes been quoted that just a few ships (all using fuel oil with maximum permitted sulphur content) emit as much harmful air pollutants as all the cars in the world (if the cars were all using the cleanest fuel available).

In my opinion we should be paying closer attention to neuro - toxic pollutants like heavy metals and other particulates known to have harmful properties.

In your interpretation of the concept so far you seem to discount this concept of «harmful» and equate pollutants with what we generally think of as toxins.

In Preacher's Daughter, we learn how coal plants can emit carbon dioxide (CO2), mercury, sulfur, and other harmful pollutants.

This includes reducing exposure to water - borne disease, and harmful smoke and pollutants which may result in respiratory diseases.

CES adoption will bring numerous benefits to consumers, including a reduction in carbon and other harmful pollutants, and continued maintenance of fuel diversity.

The only ground you need give is that there is some Y pollutant issued in production of X product which is harmful.

In fact there is harm coming from believing CO2 is a pollutant - An example - London's Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution Worse Than Beijing's «Successive governments knew more than 10 years ago that diesel was producing all these harmful pollutants, but they myopically plowed on with their CO2 agenda,» said Simon Birkett, founder of Clean Air in London, a nonprofit grouIn fact there is harm coming from believing CO2 is a pollutant - An example - London's Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution Worse Than Beijing's «Successive governments knew more than 10 years ago that diesel was producing all these harmful pollutants, but they myopically plowed on with their CO2 agenda,» said Simon Birkett, founder of Clean Air in London, a nonprofit grouin London, a nonprofit group.

The study also found that other shipping - related pollutants, including sulphur and soot, were on the rise; these harmful emissions, which are known to cause lung cancer and various respiratory diseases - another study found they contributed to over 60,000 deaths a year - are projected to increase by over 30 % in the next 12 years.

Air quality can vary a lot depending on where you are, if you live in a really polluted area but the closest air monitoring station isn't nearby, you might be fooled into thinking that you are not exposed to harmful pollutants when in fact you are (or vice versa).

Their green - above - all approach makes lots of sense for children's furniture, from both a planetary and human health perspective: youngsters spend tons of time in their cribs, on a changing table, and surrounded by stuff in their nurseries; exposure to VOCs and other harmful pollutants that are off - gassing from their surroundings can lead to both short and long - term health problems, especially if they're living with poor indoor air quality during their busiest developmental years.