Sentences with phrase «known for its air pollution»

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China has been known for having low - quality air in their major cities, but the levels of pollution are reaching numbers that are more alarming than ever.

The better the grade of oat the better the taste, and since Provena grow their oats in the middle of the Finnish countryside (known for having one of the lowest levels of air pollution in Europe); they give their oats the best shot of becoming wonderful!

Known for its mild, coastal climate, pristine coastal grassland, and fresh marine air — with virtually no pollution from traffic or factories — the area is a quiet escape from city life.

Poortenga told a Michigan Fox News affiliate that families who want to go green will be happy to know that breastfeeding their child will reduce the need for unnecessary energy use (unless bottled, it does not need to be heated up in a microwave) and packaging (natural sources don't add to air pollution or waste).

I know you're against clean air and water and would prefer to have industry control all that stuff, oh wait you can go to Delhi India for all the best in air pollution.

They monitor devices that are known to produce air pollution, and they have verified that this generator is safe for use.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Specifically, estimates of air pollution exposure are not perfect and it remains possible that something related to air pollution, but not air pollution itself (known as confounding), was responsible for the association.

Looking for a primer on this unfamiliar topic, says Keating, «she called me up knowing that I «did» air pollution.»

For example, one of the fellows in Keating's «class» worked on a Senate staff and had been a physical chemist before coming to D.C. Out of the blue, she was assigned to investigate an air pollution issue that she knew very little about.

The air pollution research looks promising, but right now it's still too soon to know for sure whether the link is real,» said Dr. Melissa Rosen, a gastroenterologist at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs in chemical assessments and blocked certain state air and water pollution laws.

The authors speculate about the possible explanations for the figures, including increased job stress, but this would not affect older people, and increased air pollution, which is known to go up when economies are thriving, but which doesn't explain the gender differences in the figures.

The previously known main risk factors for developing COPD are smoking and air pollution.

Known as a «co-benefit,» using state of the art models for human and natural systems, along with climate projections from the international community, the team was able for the first time to put a value on the global air pollution benefits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the 21st century.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

It's little known that indoor air pollution can be eight times worse than outdoors and even in newer schools, the trend in construction techniques towards tightly sealed buildings acts to trap damaging contaminants inside for longer.

A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution.

We've known for some time that air pollution created in Asia — largely because of fast expanding economic activity fueled by coal — spreads far and wide, even reaching the shores of the United States.

While planting trees for bioenergy would no doubt lead to an uptick in ozone pollution, it should be noted that burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — is generally seen as a larger and graver contributor to air pollution than tree plantations.

- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants - Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known Clean air is vital for good health.

• Provide a clear, evidence - based explanation of the role played by different parts of the energy sector in causing air pollution • Present detailed projections of the energy sector and related air quality pathways in different countries and sectors, based on known energy, climate and air quality policies, and the key implications for policymakers • Identify additional policy measures that can materially improve the outlook for energy - related air pollution, examining both the co-benefits and trade - offs with other energy and climate objectives • Based on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymakers

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

Internationally there is a role for statesmen to reach out to foreign countries and encourage them to employ the best practices known for reducing air and water pollution.

I knew that gas - powered lawn mowers kicked out some sizable air pollution, but I didn't realize quite how bad they were until I read that the EPA estimates that a lawn mower emits 11 times the air pollution of a new car for every hour of operation.

London's iconic Oxford Street has long been known as a hotspot for both shopping and air pollution.