Sentences with phrase «means more air pollution»

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Less dust means the air stagnates, with human - made pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.

The World Health Organization estimates that preventable deaths from air pollution, meaning soot and smog from burning wood, coal, oil and gasoline, total more than two million per year worldwide.

The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their exposure to pollutants emitted can be more immediate and disproportionately harmful.

It means increased health risks and more air pollution.

«This rollback will mean more asthma and other breathing disorders associated with air pollution, more contamination of water supplies by residue from mining fossil fuels and more money wasted on infrastructure for a dying energy industry,» Francis said.

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So the bottom line is that burning more diesel means more greenhouse gases and more urban air pollution.

With that comes more black carbon air pollution from ships — soot to you and me — and, that means already disproportionately high levels of warming will increase and with those, more ice melting.

This means fossil fuels could be allowed to pour even more pollution into our air.

Indoor air is 3 - 5 times more polluted than outdoor air, which means smoking indoors leads to greater toxic buildup and pollution.