Sentences with phrase «including air pollution»

Johan's key areas of interest relate to atmospheric issues, including air pollution and climate change.

On the other side of the equation, it has long been recognized that the price of fossil fuels does not reflect their many external costs, including air pollution, political and security risks, and damage from climate change.

While the focus of the document is on measuring GHG benefits, many of the methods discussed are broadly useful for understanding other important social benefits including air pollution and traffic congestion reduction, fuel savings, increased traffic safety, and access to opportunities across the income spectrum.

Those will fund environmental projects in Louisiana, including air pollution monitoring.

Hydrogen could therefore help ease pressing environmental and societal problems, including air pollution and its health hazards, global climate change and dependence on foreign oil imports.

These externalities include air pollution and radioactive waste disposal as well as CO2 emissions.

Beyond the effects on climate discussed below, these include air pollution, acid rain, marine and freshwater eutrophication, biodiversity loss, and the stimulation of some invasive species.

And she emphasized the significance of the study's findings: «Our data show that it is important to include air pollution in the national dialogue on natural - gas development that has focused largely on water.»

Additional co-benefits are country - specific but often include air pollution abatement, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas and employment (high agreement, much evidence).

Additional co-benefits are country - specific but often include air pollution abatement, balance of trade improvement, provision of modern energy services to rural areas and employment

Not exact matches

Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

His firm publishes an annual ranking of financial centers that tracks more than 100 indicators, including nonfinancial measures like crime rates and air pollution.

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

The government dictates all kinds of things including speed limits, rules against pollution of your water, air and food.

environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

The proposed gas station ignited a list of concerns that included traffic and noise but air pollution, specifically benzene emissions that can occur when pumping gasoline and its dangers when exposed to children, was a fear that was repeatedly hammered by both residents and park district officials.

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 fetusAir 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 fetusair pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, from Ithaca College, says the compilation of results and on going research created by the group shows numerous potential dangers, including everything from worsening air pollution and water contamination to potential earthquakes and increased crime due to the boom in the gas extraction business.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

Janeway also objected to a policy rider that would restrict disclosure of toxic and hazardous air pollution, including ammonia or hydrogen sulfide, released by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in rural communities.

There is longstanding evidence that exposure to high concentrations of air pollution increases the risk for several diseases including heart attacks and European Union (EU) statutory pollution limits are based on absolute upper values.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

«Understanding how these pollutants interact with the environment, including snow, is crucial if we are to reduce the hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by mild air pollution in North America.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

Florverde standards include minimized water use via drip irrigation and rainwater collection, boilers with air pollution filters, integrated pest control to reduce pesticide use, and environmentally sensitive waste disposal.

In all, the proposed budget would do away with 50 EPA programs that cost $ 347 million, including Energy Star, targeted air pollution grants, endocrine disrupter screening and infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages and the Mexico border.

Her study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, analyzed data from the Nurses» Health Study Cognitive Cohort, which included almost 20,000 women ages 70 to 81, and used geographic information and air - monitoring data to estimate pollution exposure.

«We're emitting a lot of stuff into the atmosphere, including a lot of air pollution, particulate matter, and we don't know what it's doing to clouds,» Sherwood said.

The authors conclude that ambient air pollution is a key modifiable risk for millions of people across the globe, including millions of Americans who are exposed to harmful particulate pollution levels.

Other preventable causes of cancer include drinking alcohol, eating too little fibre (causing around 11,900 and around 11,700 cases respectively, which is 3.3 % each) and outdoor air pollution.

«Particulate air pollution is like lead pollution, there is no evidence of a safe threshold even at levels far below current standards, including in the rural areas we investigated,» said Schwartz.

It is estimated that the country is losing some 8 percent of its wealth each year to pollution, with the toll including everything from crops destroyed by acid rain to spiraling health costs due to poor air and water quality.

In fact, when the team compared exposure to all forms of measured air pollution — including larger particles and carbon monoxide — walking proved the best mode of transportation.

Last week, Beijing city released a color - coded alert system for handling air pollution emergencies, to include the temporary halt of construction, factory production, outdoor barbeques and the setting off of fireworks.

Other studies have shown that air pollution may lead to an increase in inflammatory particles called cytokines circulating throughout the body, including the gut.

Many companies, including ours, have already invested in modern air - pollution control technologies and cleaner and more efficient power plants.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

Research at other parks investigates a wide range of other environmental threats, including air and noise pollution and invasive species.

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.

«We know that mothers» exposure to air pollution during pregnancy can affect lung development of their babies and lead to subsequent respiratory disorders, including asthma, although little is known about whether timing of the exposure is important to consider,» said lead author Yueh - Hsiu Mathilda Chiu, ScD, from the Department of Pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

This finding adds to previous studies that have linked acceptable air pollution levels with other complications including cognitive decline and fetal growth development.

The data on pollution of the northeast Atlantic, which includes the North Sea and the Irish Sea, do not include fallout into the oceans from air pollution, which some scientists believe may be as great as waterborne pollution.

According to the World Health Organization, most significant constituents of air pollution include particulate matter (PM), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide.

The data were collected by air pollution monitoring campaigns, and included levels of nitrogen dioxide (a prominent air pollutant caused by traffic and cigarette smoking), coarse particles, and fine particles.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

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.