Sentences with phrase «in polluted air»

Higher concentrations occur in polluted air.

All of these potentially fatal pathologies are causes by «exposure to fine particles in polluted air» and not by global warming.

But in polluted air, this same molecule could travel only half as far.

The same could happen to insect pollinators while foraging for food in polluted air masses.»

The senator then asked Pruitt how many suits he'd brought on behalf of children with asthma (who often suffer in polluted air).

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

Not exact matches

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

9 OUT OF 10 AIR POLLUTION DEATHS OCCUR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES About 7 million people die annually from exposure to polluted air, according to the World Health Organization.

If you are looking for a wireless charger in a place with polluted air or a place with lots of pets, the Gbreeze is a perfect product for you.

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

In the routine running of their churches, they are looking for ways to recycle paper, conserve energy and avoid polluting the air and water.

Some might think Podhoretz was unfortunate in his friends and others might think his friends were unfortunate in him, but he is grateful for the contentious entanglement of friendships and ideas that has brought him to where he is as one who intends to challenge «the regnant leftist culture that pollutes the spiritual and cultural air we all breathe, and to do so with all my heart and all my soul and all my might.»

Slave labour, one milliard persons in unvoluntary hunger, life - saving medicine not available where needed too, polluted air and water, murders,...; what does any doctrine of science say about these things?

But neither can we indiscriminately and indefinitely plunder the planet for its resources, overpopulate it with people, and pollute our air and water without paying the terrible consequences in human misery.

This is happening under conditions when the human race is approaching the biological limits of the earth, in terms of its capacity both to support the rapidly increasing numbers of people with food and materials and to absorb the polluting poisons we cast off into the land, the sea, and the air.

Not defaming this mystery in all its forms requires not polluting the soil, air, or water, not supporting excessive, unsustainable harvesting, consciously treating all beings as manifestations of the Mystery of Body.

It appears to me that the increase of uncertainty today is less a sign of maturity and wisdom, and more a negative effect from breathing a poisoned, polluted air we are sharing in common with the rest of the world, to our own detriment.

Even the best people will not attain the best potential of their lives when they live in a very imperfect society; for example a society that does little about the way industry pollutes the air and water and whose transport system is inadequate.

A conventional lawn mower pollutes as much in an hour as 40 late model cars (or as much as as much air pollution as driving a car for 100 miles).

If your employer allows tobacco smoking in the building, smoke may pollute the air you breathe.

In contrast, artificial baby milk production pollutes our land, air, and water and uses up natural resources.

This is another example of modern society's need for convenience over common sense and social responsibility, just like polluting the air while waiting in a drive - through line up at the local coffee shop.»

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradatioIn addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradatioin Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

When you are tackling messes with little kids in the house, it's important to use non-toxic products that won't pollute the air or coat surfaces with harmful chemicals.

He is idiotically polluting the air and waters, engrossing the land and forests, and creating misery in his ceaseless, selfish accumulation and wars of drones.

He told delegates that «with Labour in power your home and your commute get more affordable, the air you breathe gets less polluted, you get better pay and conditions at work, our businesses are supported to grow, and new jobs are created».

But there has been a hitch: Despite the fact that DERA was supposed to be fully implemented by 2010, each year it has been delayed in the state's secret budget negotiations, allowing vehicles with antiquated emission controls used by the state and its contractors to continue to pollute our air and threaten the health of our communities.

But the odour around Lawal since the stench of the grass - cutting contract oozed out and polluted the Nigerian air, his office has been a major source of reference to those who want to castigate this administration on double standards in fighting graft.

Investigative Post determined the DEC had no testing results to compare Peace Bridge air with except for two spots deemed among the most polluted in the region.

The air was more polluted than usual in central London last night as George Galloway was labelled a...

Cycling and walking charity Sustrans» chief executive Xavier Brice said: «The new Government must urgently improve the quality of the air that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliair that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliAir Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycling.

As chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the air.

Their report finds that in Tonawanda, in Western New York, residents had to resort to homemade air tests to prove that Tonawanda Coke was polluting the town's air.

«LPG fracturing returns polluting products to the surface that must be properly handled and disposed, in this case, flammable gases that would have to be collected in pressurized tanks or flared — a step generating air emissions and leaks that can harm public health and safety,» they wrote.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.

«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

Danish researchers, with colleagues in the United States and Taiwan, published a study last year in Environmental Health Perspectives looking at people with and without Parkinson's and their exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a marker for traffic - polluted air.

To test whether breathing in air pollution could affect body weight, Chinese scientists exposed one group of pregnant rats to Beijing's highly polluted air and another group to filtered air.

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.

One lived in clean, filtered air; the other group was housed in enclosures polluted with air containing fine particulates, at concentrations still within EPA standards.

«This is important because air pollution is a serious global issue that affects billions of people — even in the United States, about 142 million people still reside in counties with dangerously polluted air.»

On a sunny day in 1991, for instance, three cycling buddies in sprawling Atlanta together lamented the city's polluted air and lack of bike trails.

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

Beijing, like some other cities in Asia, has significant problems with air quality, and may be 10 - 50 times more polluted than some major urban areas in the U.S. with air concerns, such as the Los Angeles basin.

China shut down 8,347 heavily polluting companies last year in northern Hebei province, which has the worst air in the country, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, as the government moves to tackle a problem that has been a source of discontent.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

In 1995 he reported that some of the sulfur crystallized and stayed on the ground, potentially tainting the local water, and some of it floated away as a gas, polluting the air.

BEIJING — For many of the expats here in one of the world's most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air - quality readings.