Sentences with phrase «less pollution at»

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Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now at risk because of increasing consumption, evaporation and pollution.

Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.

A major, decade - long study of thousands of Americans found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution — even at lower levels common in the United States — accumulate deposits in the arteries that supply the heart faster than do people living in less polluted areas.

«There likely will be little traces of the hydrocarbons in the water that is condensed to form rain, but it will likely make up less than normal pollution does,» says research meteorologist Frank Marks, director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. «The amount of water vapor evaporated that might contain hydrocarbons related to the spill will be very, very small.»

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

Earlier this year at a testing laboratory recognised by the US Environmental Protection Agency, a car fitted with the system emitted significantly less pollution than the standards the US intends to impose in 2004.

Basically, the source of pollution is transferred: «It is far less expensive to capture emissions at the smokestack than the tailpipe,» Pratt adds.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

I appreciated the topical December 7 image in the release, especially because I was looking at how the BBC World Service «More or Less» trivialized and obscured a good recent paper by Rohde and others on the health effects of pollution (notably around Beijing)-- notably from particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns, eLess» trivialized and obscured a good recent paper by Rohde and others on the health effects of pollution (notably around Beijing)-- notably from particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns, eless than 2.5 microns, etc..

What is there not to like about the new shuttle buses at Tokyo's Haneda Airport - the hybrid electric buses save energy and have less air pollution.

Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in less coal mined, less coal burned, and less carbon pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.

«This agreement will mean less of the carbon pollution that threatens our planet, and more of the jobs and economic growth driven by low - carbon investment,» President Obama said today at a press conference.

The opportunities for improvement are even greater in rapidly developing economies such as China, which now uses much more nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer much less efficiently than either the United States or Europe, and at a much higher cost in pollution and human health.

Considering Californians drive some 320 billion miles every year, these standards help ensure significantly less pollution, fewer global warming emissions, and fuel savings at the pump — and they're already working.

Remarkable as it sounds, this is actually feasible at low cost, and with a major side benefit: much less air and water pollution as well.

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.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

The second is that, whether at rest or in motion, electric vehicles typically produce less vibration and noise pollution than vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine.

At the same time, protection and restoration of these ecosystems is one of the most affordable ways to reduce pollution, costing less than half the amount of energy and transport sector improvements.

CalCars» mission is to narrow the cost gap through incentives, subsidies and rebates while making the case for paying extra to gain access to car - pool lanes, spend less time at gas stations, get home backup power, lower maintenance costs, and, most importantly, benefit society by reducing oil imports, greenhouse gases and pollution.

Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).

It would have slashed climate - warming pollution by 80 percent by 2050, at a cost to consumers of less than 40 cents a day.

We'd all be saving money at the pump, we'd be producing less air pollution and greenhouse gas, Detroit would be in a stronger competitive position and the «Big Three» may not have lost so many more jobs.

I looked at smaller cars, but they either had pollution / gas mileage that was just as bad and were more cramped inside or they were much less reliable.