Sentences with phrase «most polluted air»
As a result the country has some of the most polluted air in the European Union, and 33 of its 50 dirtiest cities.
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Most of the current discussion focuses on what can be done to reduce the rate of exhaustion of limited resources, the polluting of air, water, and soil, and the rate of global warming.
She called for a new Clean Air Act and said Government must rewrite its Air Quality Strategy immediately, commit to removing the most polluting vehicles from the roads as soon as possible and set up a national network of Clean Air Zones.
Plans to charge polluting vehicles to enter new clean air zones currently extend to five of the country's most polluted cities: Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton.
The metro mayor should use their direct mandate to enact the most effective, long - term sustainable and economically and socially beneficial policy — a Clean Air Charge (similar to London's Toxicity Charge) on more polluting vehicles entering the most congested and polluted parts of the city region.
Investigative Post determined the DEC had no testing results to compare Peace Bridge air with except for two spots deemed among the most polluted in the region.
The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.
Within a decade, China may overtake the United States as the leading producer of greenhouse gases, and 7 of the world's 10 most air - polluted cities are Chinese.
BEIJING — For many of the expats here in one of the world's most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air - quality readings.
By 0700 GMT, the level of PM2.5 particulate matter, or tiny particles in the air that are the most hazardous to health, reached a «severely polluted» 466, according to the Shanghai government's monitoring website, http://www.semc.gov.cn/aqi/home/English.aspx.
«There's a lack of research regarding long - term exposure to air pollution in some of the world's most polluted places, including India,» said Aaron Cohen, an epidemiologist at the Health Effects Institute in Boston.
Heavily polluted locations in parts of the East, Midwest, and West Coast in which ozone already frequently exceeds recommended levels could face unhealthy air during most of the summer.
Home air quality: In the last several years, a growing body of scientific evidence has indicated that the air within homes and other buildings can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air in even the largest and most industrialized cities.
From the cleaning products we use, to the personal care items, the off - gasing of our chemically treated home parts, furniture and more, most people have no idea how polluted their indoor air is.
«A growing body of scientific evidence has indicated that the air within homes and other buildings can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air in even the largest and most industrialized cities.»
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air can be up to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air: «In the last several years, a growing body of scientific evidence has indicated that the air within homes and other buildings can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air in even the largest and most industrialized cities.»
Khan said: «These air quality audits are a big step towards helping some of the most polluted schools in London identify effective solutions to protect pupils from toxic fumes but, of course, this is only part of the solution.
It seems, at least to most people today — using whatever cognitive abilities they have to reference the injuries caused by second hand smoke, that the smoking ban was less unethical than the smoker's unethical behavior that polluted shared air.
Air pollution levels are comparable to those encountered in the most polluted cities of the world.
China is a communist dictatorship of USSR style power - seekers and power - holders (for them and their children) and the people of China, most of them salt of the Earth people, are brainwashed, mindcontrolled robots of the Chinese Communist Party, and they are afraid to speak out, they are afraid to ask for change, they are afraid to do anything but work hard for the «motherland», shop for consumer gadgets with their nouveau - riche yuan, and think along very narrow nationalistic lines (remember Hainan Island shoot down and breaking the windows of the US Embassy in Beijing), so we are dealing with an abnormal country, a very messed up brainwashed mindcontrolled bunch of people, who want nothing more than to become rich and prosperous and powerful and world domination country — and if some people die along the way from poisoned rivers, SARS, bird flu, polluted air, tainted food or poisonous toys THEY DO NOT CARE ONE IOTA.
The most polluting cargo ships would then be sent to developing nation shipping lanes and air - pollution in the poorest countries - which already have it bad - could actually increase.
It would seem most of this radiation, some 8 % of the total, will only penetrate a hundred metres or so of CO2 «polluted» air.
Providing a fix for that very unhealthy air — 13 of the world's most polluted cites are [continue reading...]
Cassandra Kubes, from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), spoke of the potential to save many lives by cleaning the air — not by total transformation of the energy supply, but simply by choosing the latest and most efficient technologies to reduce polluted fossil fuel emissions.
[Source: American Lung Association «State of the Air 2017: People at Risk In 25 Most Ozone - Polluted Cities»
[Source: American Lung Association «State of the Air 2017: People at Risk In 25 Most Ozone - Polluted Cities»]
Providing a fix for that very unhealthy air — 13 of the world's most polluted cites are in India — is a growing priority for the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and could take key position in a suite of clean energy initiatives the two leaders are expected to roll out on Monday.
It's one of the most polluting energy sources out there, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.
Eight of the USA's 10 most polluted cities, when it comes to ozone pollution, are in California, according to the American Lung Association's annual «State of the Air» report.
The air may be too clean for the Trump Administration so they want to bring back coal, seen as the dirtiest and most polluting fossil fuel.
In fact, six of the ten most polluted cities in the European Union, in terms of fine particulate matter air quality, are in Poland.
Krakow, where EU air quality norms are exceeded more than half of the year, is the EU's third most polluted city.
Despite the EPA claim that Lancaster County PA is among the top ten most polluted counties in the U.S., based solely on the ozone levels (we are a dairy farm area with lots of natural VOC's being converted to ozone) Lancaster County is literally a breath of fresh air.
The sustained burning of biomass not only releases the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane but also large quantities of carbon monoxide and particulate matter... during major fire years the air quality in Indonesia is many times worse than that in the worlds» most polluted cities.
Smoke from coal and wood burning is a major contributor to black carbon and PM2.5 air pollution in Mongolia, and has made the capital, Ulaanbaatar, one of the most polluted cities in the world.
«If scientists and doctors are telling us and have been telling us for years that we need to improve our air quality, then we should listen to them and put their opinions above the opinions of the big corporations that are doing most of the polluting,» said GASP Executive Director Kirsten Bryant.
The Star - Telegram is reporting that «The health effects of air pollution are a major topic in Texas because the state is one of the most polluted in the country.
We pick out a few highlights of her investigation below.China Much of the running industry's product is made in China's Guangdong Province, which Runner's World discovered to be one of the most polluted regions of the world, with estimates that air pollution from factories and cars was causing 10,000 premature deaths and 11 million doctor visits a year in South China, costing the economy $ 964 million a year.