Sentences with phrase «of less pollution»

Thanks to an alchemy of the records, writes Andrews, not only did a majority of «Blue Sky» days last year fall exactly — and suspiciously — on or under the 100 mark: Beijing has also in recent years moved its air sampling stations to areas with less traffic and industry to create the appearance of less pollution.

In fact, last year EPA proposed such a downwards revision (in the direction of less pollution) to the emission standards for municipal landfills.

Not exact matches

We are less happy than most of them, so much of our pollution is likely unnecessary and counterproductive.

WorldWise, for instance, makes a point of using only U.S. manufacturers, which it can visit to ensure that they meet its standards; proximity to customers also means energy savings and less pollution.

More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S. shows the economic and environmental benefits of achieving a 75 percent national recycling rate, including job creation — particularly in manufacturing, pollution reduction and the strengthening of local communities and employment bases.

The second company is paying for its continuing pollution and therefore has an incentive to improve when the cost of doing so is less than the cost of buying extra permits.

Although some economists still resist any serious change, most politicians now recognize that growth must be in less polluting forms, that, indeed, even the present level of pollution is unsustainable.

Cars can be powered by electricity and thus emit far less pollution, but the production of this electricity is almost always polluting or otherwise environmentally destructive.

Smoking one cigarette a week is likely far less damaging then breathing in some of the pollution and toxins many people are exposed to daily in the streets or even from carpeting or textiles, but we don't stop traveling or decorating our homes now do we??

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

As Diane, author of The Big Green Purse, puts it «The more money you spend on green products, the more you encourage manufacturers to reduce pollution, save energy and water, use less packaging and protect natural areas.»

So billions of pounds are to be spent increasing emissions and increasing the number of people suffering from noise pollution, only for a few hundred million to be spent making that situation slightly less worse than it might otherwise have been.

As monopoly owners of the commons who think of our environment the way Johnny Carson thought of his time, we could have more money coming in while we also secure larger parks, more nature reserves, less pollution, and better resource management.

Green taxes raise the price of pollution and ensure we pollute less.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

Now all that's left to see is whether any of Silver's voting constituents, who probably would like to see a little less traffic and pollution in their Lower East Side district, read the papers.

If more car pollution implies increasing temperatures, then less car pollution implies a cessation of increasing temperatures.

Cynthia Nixon would take a less combative and more collaborative approach to tackling the legacy of pollution, which unfortunately can be found in every corner of our state.»

And now Suh has turned his attention to the question of efficiency — producing more goods with less materials and waste — to examine whether it might provide a natural way out of such pollution.

We should be taxing the things we want less of, like pollution, not the things we want more of, like wages.

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.

By putting a price on each ton of pollution emitted, the market sends a strong signal to innovate to achieve emission reductions through methods that cost less than the cost of emitting the pollution.

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.

In addition to preferentially using warmer - colored LEDs, the study's authors say, the loss of starry skies to light pollution could be forestalled or reversed with stricter regulations on artificial lights as well as the advent of driverless cars, which require less street illumination.

Household air pollution is the fourth - highest - ranked risk worldwide, but of much less consequence in the United States and Canada, where it's ranked 24th and marked on the grid in coral green.

A year after the planting, when water quality inspectors checked his runoff, they found his septic system was no longer a source of pollution; fecal bacteria levels measured a hundred times less.

Larger areas are thought to be generally more effective than smaller ones, Pauly says, because they have a smaller area of edge per volume of protected waters, meaning that there is less opportunity for outside influences, such as illegal fishermen or pollution, to creep into the protected area.

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.

The Scientific American 50 environmental policy leader of 2002 is still lobbying full steam ahead for less air pollution

«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.»

Based on their calculations, scientists concluded that within the area they found to have elevated pollution from the airport, automobiles contributed less than 5 percent of the PN levels.

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.»

«Air pollution exposure on home - to - school routes reduces the growth of working memory: Findings of an ISGlobal study underscore the importance of establishing school routes along less polluted streets.»

This novel blue form of the phenomenon, detailed in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, burns almost soot - free, suggesting it could accomplish those tasks with less pollution than a traditional fire tornado if employed for industrial use — but more data are needed to say for sure, as the tiny efficient tornado has just been discovered out of the blue.

A study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that a Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher.

«For every ton of CO2 emitted [into] the atmosphere, the natural sinks are removing less carbon than before,» says biologist Josep «Pep» Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project — an Australia — based research consortium devoted to analyzing the pollution behind global warming.

Less under our control is the legacy of environmental pollution and the unforeseen consequences of industry, including rice products containing trace levels of arsenic, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, mercury - laced fish and plastic containers leaching poorly understood toxins.

Researchers studied the effects of fine particulate air pollution, which is made up of particles less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter, or PM2.5.

But much less is known about diffuse nutrient pollution that enters the bay after running off of farms, for example.

By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

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

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

The feat of introducing nitrogen fixation into corn and sorghum — or other genes that allow a crop to require less nitrogen — alone would cut costs and pollution markedly as well as drive higher yields.

This type of pollution refers to particles found in the air that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or 1 / 30th the average width of a human hair.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

Different racial and ethnic groups also eat different diets, live in neighborhoods with more or less pollution, experience different levels of poverty, and are more or less likely to smoke tobacco, all of which could also impact their health outcomes.

I realise how difficult and unlikely it is to realise such a thing but never the less until we as a race realise overpopulation is the the root cause of 99 % of the problems with energy and pollution we are not likely to move forward enough to solve the problem.

For comparison, the average Londoner loses four and a half months to air pollution, while the average resident of Manchester lives 3.3 years less than his / her counterpart in Harrow, North London.