Sentences with phrase «of dangerous pollution»

The unintended consequences are much higher emission of dangerous pollution, NOX and PM.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

According to the Campaign for Clean Air London had already registered 35 days of dangerous pollution levels by mid-April, exceeding its calendar - year limit.

Not exact matches

At some point in the next five to ten years the Supreme Court is likely to rule that pollution of our children's minds is as dangerous as pollution of the air, land and water.

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.

I would pay them if they worked hard regulating private business pollution levels so I can take my daughter fishing and swimming in our public waterways without fear of getting sick or exposed to dangerous chemicals...

The level of air pollution is the most shocking discovery, as dangerous chemicals simply evaporate into the atmosphere, creating harmful levels of pollution that affect the health of the residents.

Schneiderman said data shows 1 - in - 3 residents of New York is «breathing dangerous levels of smog pollution» and the EPA's lack of action threatens citizens» health and safety.

That means two - thirds of the wells tested by the state could have dangerous levels of PFOA, suggesting an extensive pollution plume or multiple plumes in the region.

One in three of Britain's beaches were too dangerous to use this summer because of water pollution, the government had admitted.

«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.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

The findings suggest that policymakers in Brazil and across the developing world should pay more attention to the negative health impact of pollution from fires that are often part of traditional farming techniques, even though the pollution doesn't usually reach levels considered dangerous by industrial standards.

The lion's share of human costs, however, comes not from accidents but from pollution, which makes fossilfuels the most dangerous form of energy generation (below).

Air pollution has been linked to a dangerous narrowing of neck arteries that occurs prior to strokes, according to researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

EVEN AS THE U.S. EXPLORES THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF global warming, air pollution remains widespread and dangerous.

The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event «when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,» said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

The world is on track for dangerous climate change, having nearly lost room for further pollution in the mix of gases that make up the atmosphere.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.

One of Britain's chief advisers on pollution has warned the government not to ignore a system for detecting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that could be dangerous if released into the environment.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

This simple analysis shows that the «2 degree target» of «dangerous anthropogenic interference» is looming on the horizon, as the climate equilibrates and aerosol pollution is cleaned up.

Though they seem safe, regular scented candles are a huge source of indoor air pollution and they put off chemicals that are considered just as dangerous as second - hand smoke.

Now I'm not saying this is all proof — there are many other factors such as environmental pollution, social structure and belief systems — but to discard plants as not only worthless but dangerous is to ignore the vast majority of scientific and anecdotal data that exists.

Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest issues in present time, more and more people are getting caught in the dangerous arms of air pollution.

How the branch of green chemistry is an initiative to protect our environment from dangerous effect of pollution.

«Electromagnetic pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced in this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.»

The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $ 115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread dangerous levels of pollution during flooding from Hurricane...

WWF Scotland has accused the Scottish government of taking a «complacent» approach to «dangerous» levels of air pollution in Scottish cities, caused mostly by motorised traffic.

«There could be less pollution drifting into New York and other northeastern states» Right on the heels of the study saying that soot in the air might be more dangerous than previously thought comes some good news: «Judge Larry McKinney today issued a

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

On the way, it dumped a mind - boggling 336,000 tons of dust on the capital, causing dangerous air pollution.

One recent report found that a staggering 175 million Americans — 6 out of 10 people — live in areas where particulate pollution reaches dangerous levels.

(I can think of many others, including real and actual pollution of the air, land and water by dangerous and harmful chemicals, deforestation, overfishing, etc..

In fact, reports from the countryside reveal a dangerous epidemic of «cancer villages» linked to pollution from some of the very industries propelling China's explosive economy.

But Perry's argument, which seems to amount to «environmentalists make a bunch of ballyhoo about pollution, but prosperity and the free market have prevented that dangerous pollution over the last 40 years», astonishingly omits any reference to the Clean Air Act that forced industry to apply pollution controls.

President Barack Obama counted the trend among his environmental accomplishments in his State of the Union address last month: «Over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.»

The Court affirmed that Congress made it EPA's job under the Clean Air Act to curb all kinds of dangerous air pollution, including the heat - trapping pollutants that are driving climate disruption.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

At stake are limits on the nation's biggest single source of dangerous carbon pollution — some 1500 coal and gas fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

The power industry is in rapid transition due to market forces, and the Clean Power Plan asks for a modest amount more to control a very dangerous form of pollution than the unregulated marketplace on its own.

and air pollution are two of the most dangerous and grievous problems of our time.

The American Lung Association supports regular, thorough assessments of the impacts to nearby communities of sources of dangerous air pollutants, including highways, ports, industrial boilers, power plants, and other sources of air pollution.

Climate change and air pollution are two of the most dangerous and grievous problems of our time.

We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero.

Recent legal decisions that Earthjustice has helped to secure have affirmed EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate pollution from vehicles and industrial facilities, but anti-environmental members of Congress and the dirty energy industry are determined to prevent any action to reduce dangerous climate pollution.

The 260 million cars, trucks, and buses that travel on our roads are a major source of this harmful air pollution, as well as the carbon pollution that fuels dangerous climate change.

Over the past few years, the government has been forced to act after pollution levels reached crisis levels: for 26 out of 31 days in January 2013, pollution levels in Beijing were too dangerous for inhabitants to remain outdoors.