Sentences with phrase «over polluted air»
Growing concern over polluted air and water in China and India is more immediate.
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This is another example of modern society's need for convenience over common sense and social responsibility, just like polluting the air while waiting in a drive - through line up at the local coffee shop.»
«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»
He envisions transplanting the organisms to keep watch over highly polluted areas all over the world: «There's no reason we can't extend the predictability of the system to some of the other pretty nasty things that are being put into the air.»
The overcast skies and ominous clouds evoke not so much some picturesque, romantic transcendence as the polluted air of wrongdoing that looms over a people who have had to go about their daily lives through decades of political upheaval, moral corruption, and economic stagnation, crushed beneath a burden of guilt, humiliation and worn out pride.
Just the sight of smoggy, polluted air looming over a cityscape is often enough to make one feel a bit down in the dumps, but apparently breathing in the stuff is only making things worse.
I just got done writing about a new report from the American Lung Association that revealed that just over 50 % of Americans live in places where the air is so polluted that it's often unhealthy to breathe.
The students called out «an industry that is planning to cook the planet, is responsible for destroying land, polluting the air and water, and violating the rights of people around the world, and an industry whose business model means burning over five times the amount of carbon our planet can handle.»
reported improvements in air quality for 2006 — 2007 over 2002 levels can be attributed to (a) a shift in reported daily PM10 concentrations from just above to just below the national standard, and (b) a shift of monitoring stations in 2006 to less polluted areas.