Sentences with phrase «makes reducing air pollution»

That alone makes reducing air pollution a necessary goal.

Not exact matches

As far as reducing UK emissions is concerned, it would make more sense to cut rail fares to encourage people to use trains more — instead of pushing people back into cars on already jam - packed roads, and increasing congestion, emissions and air pollution.

That carries a big policy implication, Cohen says: It not only «makes both public health and economic sense to clean up dirty places,» but also means there could be significant health benefits from reducing air pollution even in areas that already have relatively tight controls.

«Researchers create new low - cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution: A new «green» material made from solid wastes and natural polymers promises better results than activated carbon in adsorbing pollutants in wastewater and air.»

In computer models together with historical data, the team found that reduced natural dust transported from the Gobi Desert in central and northern China translates to increased human - made air pollution in highly populated eastern China.

«When it's more important than ever to cut energy costs and reduce pollution in our communities, organizations across America are making their buildings more efficient, raising the bar in energy efficiency and lowering the amount of carbon pollution and other emissions in the air we breathe,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a statement.

The SRTS program provides money to help communities enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school; to make walking and bicycling to school safe and more appealing; and to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of projects that will improve safety, and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

This is a pretty intuitive result, but it's a very good think to have solid studies of this kind to help convince politicians and the general public that reducing air pollution can have all kinds of benefits, including some that they might never have thought about (not many parents will realize that their kid's illness might have been caused, or made worse, by air pollutants).

We've made some seriously impressive progress in reducing the air pollution caused by cars, but we've still a ways to go.

Such a shift also substantially reduces air pollution, making it obviously attractive for fast - growing economies plagued with bad air like China and India.

This was great to know that my actions as well as the other plaintiffs of taking this big polluter to court to reduce its air pollution can make a difference.

Coal replacement cost savings are made more significant by India's stricter power sector emissions rules, which aim to reduce air pollution and early deaths from coal - fired generation.

Trees also reduce air pollution, provide wildlife habitat, and make outdoor areas more pleasant for walking and recreation.

Comfort — due to continuous air - exchange, reduced noise pollution, as well as warm interior surfaces, which reduce radiant heat - loss potential (make you comfortably warm in your building)

But despite increasing calls for China to reduce its coal - burning — not only because of climate impacts but because of infamous, choking air pollution — it has been unclear whether the country has made enough effort to actually make a dent in its consumption.

The institute said that the E.P.A., invoking the Clean Air Act, and the Department of Transportation, using its regulatory power over fuel efficiency, could make major strides over the next decade in reducing carbon dioxide pollution.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

And in the area where currently division runs deepest, protecting the environment and addressing global warming, I find myself agreeing with President Obama that our country must take strong action to reduce pollution from fossil fuels that fouls our air, makes our water impure, and helps to create one of the greatest threats to our children's future, climate change.

Meanwhile, we can all contribute to making sure that «lasting legacy» happens a little sooner by reducing our consumption of unnecessary stuff: as China's factories make more and more of the world's consumer goods, their air pollution is our problem as well.

Working with ClimateCare, organisations can fund programmes to quickly and cost effectively cut indoor air pollution by making solar power, efficient stoves and gravity fed water filters affordable for families — reducing the risk of pneumonia, diarrhoea and other diseases.

Though he warned that carbon dioxide emissions must be stabilized over the next few decades, he also suggested that significant progress could be made by reducing the emissions of other greenhouse gases, particularly methane and ozone — and that we must pay our Faustian debt involving air pollution.