Sentences with phrase «include less pollution»

The strongest reasons why conservatives support clean energy include less pollution, more innovation and greater independence.

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More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S. shows the economic and environmental benefits of achieving a 75 percent national recycling rate, including job creation — particularly in manufacturing, pollution reduction and the strengthening of local communities and employment bases.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

Less under our control is the legacy of environmental pollution and the unforeseen consequences of industry, including rice products containing trace levels of arsenic, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, mercury - laced fish and plastic containers leaching poorly understood toxins.

By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

Changes in our lifestyles, which include more environmental pollution and less quality in our diets, mean that we are exposed to more free radicals than ever before.

Versions of the energy bill passed by the House and Senate each include a pilot program to subsidize switching to buses that emit less pollution.

Smokestack pollution from NGS also adds to smog haze in 11 national parks and wilderness areas surrounding the plant, including the Grand Canyon, which is less than 20 miles away.

Health benefits may include: physical activity from walking and cycling, which can help prevent heart disease, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, and some obesity - related risks; lower urban air pollution concentrations; lower rates of traffic injury risks for users of dedicated bicycle and pedestrian networks; and less noise stress.

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

The ACC also pushed to include more about plastic bag recycling in the text, but activists point out that despite the industry's efforts to push recycling as a solution to plastic pollution, less than 10 % of the 100 billion plastic bags used in the United States each year are recycled, and recycling does not address the impact plastic bags and packaging have on both animal and human health.

[10] Although new power plants, when equipped with state - of - the - art pollution controls, have significantly less of the type of pollutants that cause acid rain, fine particulate pollution, and mercury toxicity, no currently proposed plants include any equipment to capture emissions of carbon dioxide.

When asked if specific health problems will become more or less common over the next 10 years in their community due to global warming, more than one third of Americans think the following conditions will become more common: air pollution, including smog (38 %); pollen - related allergies (38 %); asthma / other lung diseases (37 %); heat stroke (36 %); and bodily harm from severe storms and / or hurricanes (34 %).

Moreover, in their calculations the consultant completely ignored the energy used while running the coal plant itself, including the pumps, fans, pollution controls, and other auxiliary equipment, which makes it even less efficient.

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

Santer et al. (2017) later showed that to fully explain the difference between temperatures measured by satellites and the rise that computer models had projected it was necessary to include external influences not expected by the models — more volcanoes and pollution, less solar activity.

If we want to meet our Paris Agreement climate commitments and protect citizens from pollution and climate disruption, we need policies and regulations to make all vehicles — including trucks and SUVs — less polluting.

There are many advantages to moving to a sizeable plot of land including privacy, less noise and light pollution and the opportunity to have a sizeable property to develop.