Sentences with phrase «other dangerous pollutants»

There is no doubt that carbon pollution is a threat to human health and should be strictly limited like other dangerous pollutants.

The new rules are expected to save up to 11,000 lives each year and avoid tens of thousands of asthma attacks by ensuring that the dirtiest power plants in the nation install the available technology to cut mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants.

To their disappointment, this rule requires polluters reduce emissions of heavy metals, toxic gases, and other dangerous pollutants.

The coal industry is one of the most carbon intensive in the world and it is also responsible for other dangerous pollutants in our air, soil, and water.

Emission reductions from the Clean Power Plan (including reductions in other dangerous pollutants) could prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths, 90,000 asthma attacks in children, and 300,000 missed work and school days each year.

(and in fact contributing to the coming disaster with every exhalation of the other dangerous pollutant).

Not exact matches

Almost all tap water contains fluoride which has been proven to be dangerous, as well as other pollutants and pharmaceutical drug residues.

In fact, the American Lung Association points out that indoor air can be home to a long list of potentially dangerous toxins and pollutants, including bacteria and viruses, carpets, cleaning supplies, mold and dampness, pet dander, radon, smoke, dust mites, paint products and many other chemicals and impurities.

Detox treatments are usually recommended due to exposure to toxic chemicals in the diet or environment, like synthetic chemicals, pollutants, heavy metals and other dangerous elements.

The smoke from these fires contain dangerous levels of dioxin, heavy metals and other pollutants that pose extreme dangers to human health.

Section 111 (d) exists precisely to curb dangerous pollutants that are not limited under other parts of the law.

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.

And because power plants emit many dangerous air pollutants that are subject to many parts of the Clean Air Act, there is no plausibility to the story that Congress wanted EPA to pick one poison and let the other go free.

Because they come packaged with other dangerous air pollutants, it turns out that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is just as good for our body as it is for our planet.

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.

PM2.5 is a dangerous pollutant associated with heart disease, lung cancer, and a range of other harmful health effects.

«These dangerous pollutants can worsen asthma and other respiratory diseases; cause heart attacks, cancers and stroke; and exact an enormous economic toll in terms of health - related costs and lost productivity.