Sentences with phrase «on air and water»

These reports encompass all the pollution categories covered by the site, including (when available) statistics on air and water pollutants, lead poisoning, toxic waste, and animal waste.

Greens of course won't be jumping to volunteer for another Bush campaign, especially after eight tumultuous years battling Jeb's brother on air and water pollution policies and complaints that the last White House muzzled climate scientists.

Fossil fuel consumption already has «fetters»: restrictions on air and water pollution, transportation costs, taxes.

Over the past eight years, Obama's EPA has slowly ratcheted up environmental restrictions on air and water pollution from coal plants and mining activities.

Effects on air and water quality, habitats and protected species are addressed through regulations, lease restrictions and fines.

Shows commitment to a higher quality of life by focusing on air and water quality, pollution, CO2 emissions, and resident equity and engagement

On August 11, 2005 Peter Gleick testified before the California Assembly Select Committee on Air and Water Quality.

People have legitimate worries about the environmental impacts of fracking — notably on air and water.

An interactive PowerPoint and Quiz on pollution, with a focus on air and water pollution, perfect for your sustainability / eco-friendly topic.

Paulson received a Ph.D. in environmental science in 1971 before joining the Natural Resources Defense Council to work on air and water pollution issues.

Schulz and his colleagues suspect that an atmospheric low tide releases a tiny amount of pressure on the air and water in the soil at the surface.

Researchers examined the impact on air and water temperatures as well as the frequency of extreme events.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

«It has a profound effect on air and water quality — and ecosystems.

In 1970, the focus was on air and water pollution and litter.

We're particularly enthusiastic to show companies how much environmental and profit benefit they can achieve by investing in waste - to - energy solutions that permanently reduce the expense of fossil fuels while radically improving environmental impacts on air and water quality.»

Your ruling class, sensing discontent, blames it on air and water pollution or burning the rain forest.

Not exact matches

Leaders on the West Coast are united in understanding science in the commitment to clean waters and clean air.»

Both Facebook and Twitter seem to think there's money in so - called «social television,» or people having virtual water - cooler discussions on those respective services while shows air.

«New business is great, but it shouldn't come at the expense of our water and air,» Clean Wisconsin said on Facebook.

He's wasting their tax dollars on his luxurious lifestyle, giving handouts to corporate polluters and poisoning our air and water,» said Lukas Ross, who represents Friends of Earth.

A.O. Smith (water heaters, air purification products) said that «As a result of significantly higher steel prices and inflation in freight and other costs, we announced a price increase up to 12 % on U.S. water heater products effective in early June.»

That's how many examples are on a «list of the harmed,» people who have offered personal stories of harm from fracking, as tallied by the advocacy group Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air.

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

We need to establish a lot more «well - funded and well - managed» reserves to protect species in the sea and fresh water, in the air and on land.

As administrator, Pruitt has refocused the EPA to get «back to basics,» homing in on the agency's «core mission» of protecting the nation's air, land, and water.

With a full - beam convertible hardtop, this yacht features a windshield walk - thru along with opening side windows and sliding glass doors for those who want some fresh air on the water.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

The device allows business owners to modify their behavior and save on costs of everything from water and electricity to natural gas and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

In other cases, products like sunscreens that advertise a reduced skin cancer risk, filters that remove unhealthy chemicals from air or water and even power on - and - off safety switches, are put under additional scrutiny by the FTC to ensure they actually do what they say.

The province's ban on unsolicited, door - to - door sales covers most heating, air and water services, but the MPP who pushed for it said it stops short of encompassing companies in other sectors because they don't all fall under provincial jurisdiction or generate as many complaints with Consumer Protection Ontario.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

At times, Pruitt directly coordinated with the Oklahoma oil and gas industry to put pressure on the Obama White House in an effort to weaken clean air and water regulations or squash investigations.

Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO2, a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NOx, SO2, and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut off ties to Qatar by land, water, and air in a tightly coordinated move, claiming that it was backing terrorist activity in the region.

You can help First Nations defend their rights and title — and the air, land and water we all depend on — with a donation to the legal fund supporting these cases.

With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

The process of extracting oil from oil sands is not a clean one; it has a significant impact on land, air, and water.

ROBIN BOLTON Water, air and noise pollution, the loss of resources through spills or leaks, along with accidents and the impact on surrounding communities, are repercussions of not identifying risks timeously

We're also doing the change in our voting patterns to really have «new management»; we want to ensure that we will have some money left in the Heritage Trust Fund so that our grandchildren will be able to pay for the land, air and water that the oil and gas industry has contaminated — that they will not do the remediation work on — before they leave Alberta.

AO Smith which makes water heaters and air purifications products is raising the price tag on its products by 12 percent because of higher steel prices, and rising freight costs.

Presuming that there were enough water then the Ark and all the animals and birds on it would have been above Everest — thin air and very cold.

The scents of rose water Sprinkled on sawdust, bird lime, blood, and fungus Commingled in the air, like a chimera Exhaled from broken mouths.

The scientists are claiming the fish walked around on the ground out of water and breathed air.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

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When a gentile convert stood in the baptistery on Easter's eve and, before descending naked into the waters, turned to the West to renounce the devil and the devil's ministers, he was rejecting, and in fact reviling, the gods in bondage to whom he had languished all his life; and when he turned to the East to confess Christ, he was entrusting himself to the invincible hero who had plundered hell of its captives, overthrown death, subdued the powers of the air, and been raised the Lord of history.

The survival of ecosystems and species, of land and air and water, depend now on what we do and what we refrain from doing.