Sentences with phrase «other kinds of pollution»

I don't draw a line between global warming and greenhouse gases and other kinds of pollution.

Not exact matches

There is a close connection between growth of this kind and resource exhaustion on the one side and pollution on the other.

Biello: So, since Monday we've had a suite of articles up online Mind from my brief time in China, and some other research I've been able to do in the U.S. covering everything from renewables in China to kind of, the state of the environment as well as some of these issues like indoor air pollution and the carbon neutral city and the rest of it.

The government for all its reach can't be everywhere and can't be at every, you know, outflow pipe or smoke stack and the environmental groups seem to be doing a better job, of kind of pointing to problematic outflows of water pollution and saying, hey this is a problem can we clean this up and then the government can in some cases step in and in other cases...

In the latest designs it is being applied to mask all kinds of other waves, with the potential for zeroing out sound pollution and protecting cities from earthquakes.

On a sprawling roof that covers most of a city block a kind of park has been laid, sucking up carbon dioxide and other air pollution, filtering rainfall, making it less acidic.

1) Forums user is curious about air pollution and air quality in the US; specifically, he's looking for «some map of US that shows which states are cleaner of different kinds of air pollution than others?»

The same timetable is likely to hold true for actions to curtail global warming, said Mr. Boehlert, one of a small but growing minority of Republican officials seeking limits on carbon dioxide along with other air kinds of air pollution.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

This usually happens when the reef is under some other kind of pressure, such as human predation or pollution.

It hasn't, despite amazing progress slashing other kinds of air pollution.

During the Bush administration, the EPA has rejected the idea that greenhouse gases should be regulated like soot, smog precursors and other kinds of air pollution, despite an April 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said carbon dioxide fit the definition of a pollutant that could be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

That's because the bill gives utilities a financial incentive to keep burning coal by joining the cap - and - trade system — a kind of marketplace where polluters could reduce their emissions on paper by buying pollution reductions created by others.

In an earlier article, «Paying For It,» (December 10, 2012) published in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Kolbert forcefully made the case for a carbon tax both as a way to create the incentives needed to reduce carbon pollution and as a substantial source of revenue, preferable to other kinds of taxes.

Should the climate negotiations try to cap CO2 pollution in the atmosphere at 550 parts per million (ppm), 450 ppm, or some other (hopefully lower) figure Or should we take an entirely different approach and try to cap temperature change itself, rather than CO2 pollution And what must we know about the kinds of impacts and instabilities that can be expected at any given level View Full Text»