Not exact matches
One student posed the question, «Fracking can
lead to environmental
pollution including, but not limited to, the contamination of water supply.
To ease concerns that Mexico's low wage scale would cause U.S. companies to shift production to that country, and to ensure that Mexico's increasing industrialization would not
lead to rampant
pollution, special side agreements were included in NAFTA.
«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon
pollution from coal a
leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.
«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion,
pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who
led the study, said in a press release.
Air
pollution can
lead to a cornucopia of life - threatening diseases, and new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that 80 % of cities aren't meeting guidelines.
Since then, her ongoing research and those of dozens of colleagues have
led to conclusions that urban
pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense areas like New York City, New Delhi, London, and Mexico City, is a critical health concern.
Air
pollution is now the fourth
leading cause of death worldwide, weighing in just below smoking, and the top environmental health risk.
Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air
pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.
This confluence of forces has
led China to implement a wide range of policies supporting a transition to clean energy — from feed - in - tariffs for renewable power, to electric vehicle incentives, to market - based policies to reduce carbon
pollution.
Furthermore, «experiments at the ELA are carefully designed to simulate environmentally - relevant conditions, and are only performed if ecosystems will recover naturally from the manipulation,» wrote Blais, a
leading authority on mercury
pollution.
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered
LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air
pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village -
led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
Born from Thomas Robert Malthus» famous late - eighteenth - century Essay on Population, this was the novel view that humanity itself amounted to a kind of scourge or
pollution whose pressure on fellow members would
lead to catastrophe.
This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also
led to the plundering and
pollution of nature.
Businesses will change as shortages become acute, or as
pollution leads to legislation that restricts them.
Somehow, capitalism is now confused with democracy and so wierd complete laisez faire capitalism is held up as a goal, when that kind of pure capitalism
leads to
pollution, child labor sweatshops, etc..
On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can
lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the
pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.
«Unless action is taken to control outdoor air
pollution, studies show that outdoor air
pollution will become the
leading cause of environment - related child death by 2050,» the report says.
The report also says that air
pollution can affect the developing brains of children, make other health problems worse and sickness because of air
pollution can keep children from attending school regularly,
leading to other problems that are not physiological.
This places pressure on scarce resources and
leads to increasing
pollution.
Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have
led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty,
pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.
There is a current and lively argument in our own Congress, with California's Senator Boxer
leading the charge for a bill to cut our emissions sharply, even as she prepares to fly to Bali and contribute some atmospheric
pollution as she flies.
For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has
led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the
pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.
Preston (1991), who values the economic efficiency of the market, nevertheless acknowledges that left to itself the market
leads to great inequalities of wealth and is unable to cope with environmental degradation such as is caused by industrial
pollution.
Deforestation also
leads to erosion, loss of topsoil, water
pollution and increased vulnerability during storms.
ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from
pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can
lead to diseases such as cancer.
Another precaution is to avoid buying protein powders that were made in China, where high levels of
pollution and poor manufacturing practices often
lead to contaminated supplements.
«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water
pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement
lead for the Less Is More campaign.
Because of commercial mining, chemical fertilizers and other human activities that
lead to increased
pollution, arsenic levels around the world have increased.
The Green Revolution
led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides
leading to large scale environmental
pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.
Free Radical Protection: The high levels of antioxidants in Cacao Powder can help protect the body from free radicals such as cigarette smoke, sun exposure, and
pollution which may
lead to cancer and cardiovascular disease.
It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the
pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the
leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?
When shooting resumed, so did
lead pollution of the lake.
As the three - year controversy over the gun club came to a head, questions arose about the legitimacy of the issue of
lead - shot
pollution, the possibility of an underlying anti-gun sentiment, and the role of Park District politics in the decision to seek the gun club «s ouster.
«When we got stonewalled, people then started to suspect that the question of
lead or
pollution or environmental concerns had nothing whatsoever to do with what was going on, «he said.
On March 23, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick will host a CRWA -
led training on Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permits and effective strategies for reducing storm water runoff
pollution.
In fact, feeding them can create an unnatural and unhealthy dependence on us as their food providers, and can
lead to other problems, like overcrowding and water
pollution.
And learn how to avoid harms, like air
pollution,
lead and harmful plastics.
The
pollution from those
leading countries have gone on for centuries; they need to reduce while we should be allowed to develop before we are made to embrace renewables immediately.
And we weren't asked for our input before Jeremy
led on air
pollution at PMQs: an issue we'd been doing a lot of work on, challenging government complacency and inaction in the context of the Client Earth court case and the Volkswagen scandal.
Air
pollution can
lead to a variety of respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, bronchitis, heart and chest diseases, stomach disorders, and cancers.
This would seriously disrupt Brooklynites» lives,
leading to traffic congestion, noise,
pollution, and safety hazards.
«New York is once again taking aggressive actions to not only push forward our nation
leading energy goals, but also protect our state from harmful air
pollution.»
Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air
pollution involving soot.
Dan Telvock continued his relentless coverage of
lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner - city, radioactive contamination in Niagara County and
pollution along Scajaquada Creek.
By Sean Ryan Wauwatosa residents want a guarantee from Waukesha planners that a water pipeline emptying into Underwood Creek will not
lead to flooding and
pollution.
«We reiterate our call on the Government to introduce an Environmental Taxes framework or «roadmap» to provide much needed clarity around the future direction of environmental tax policy as taxes which merely shift
pollution elsewhere, or which raise revenue without
leading to greener behaviour, are failing to do their job.»
Environmental groups and city officials denounced the State Legislature's decision saying it would
lead to another year of bags contributing to waste and
pollution, but state lawmakers argued more time was needed to study the financial impact of the fee on low income residents.
Boris said expanding Heathrow would
lead to a huge increase in noise
pollution and likened it to something that would have occurred in communist China.
«The Governor has
led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon
pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.
But the Green Party has warned that Lord Adonis's backing of new river crossings in the capital may
lead to more air
pollution and congestion if he joins City Hall and the crossings are built.