Sentences with phrase «over pollution in»

The EPA used the report to monitor pesticides and determine which to regulate; environmental groups used it to look at chemicals that might turn up in water; the Natural Resources Defense Council used it to sue the EPA over pollution in Chesapeake Bay.

India, for instance, wails over pollution in the Preamble to its Environment Protection legislation.

Not exact matches

A massive study of over 40,000 workers in over 300 offices concludes that, thanks to a combination of audio and visual pollution, «open - plan offices don't work,» reports Inc..

An immense cloud of air pollution hanging over a city he loved, Johannesburg, inspired computer engineer Tapiwa Chiwewe to research air quality — something he had no experience in whatsoever.

The biggest hurdle for the pro-industry side: The rapid expansion of fracking over the last five years has resulted in confirmed cases of drinking water contamination, a house explosion, and air pollution.

The manufacturer of air - pollution - control devices in Somerville, N.J., has switched to a system that uses voice - over Internet protocol, or VoIP.

Meanwhile, carbon pollution in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec is expected to fall over the same period.

To try to assuage these concerns, MINVR has stated that Russian contractors and suppliers will receive priority in these enterprises.60 Locals have also voiced concerns over environmental pollution from the relocation of Chinese «dirty industries» to Russia.

Accelerating a transition to renewable energy would help B.C. reduce carbon pollution and increase jobs in the sector from 11,000 today to over 15,000 over the next 10 years.»

Ecuadorian farmers and indigenous people will seek to show an Ontario Court of Appeal this week that Chevron Canada is legally liable for a US$ 9.5 - billion award that the Ecuadorians won against the US parent Chevron Corp in Ecuador over past environmental pollution.

Thus, as Christians in Latin America we choose life over death by combating the deterioration of the natural environment and the pollution of soil, air, water, and other elements.

It comes over in all the modern debates — economic development and resources, use of environment, pollution, population, the «doomsday» debates.

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

Sudras did not perceive pollution while in contact with Malayarayans.7 Significantly they themselves claimed superiority over other tribes by «styling themselves as Karingal Brahmins.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

Over 4,000 people a day die from air pollution in China.

Many brands produce their spirulina in toxic waters, and since our oceans are filled with mercury and toxins on so many accounts due to climate change and pollution, it's highly important to choose a brand of spirulina that has direct control over the growth and control of the production of their spirulina products.

Investors managing more than $ 2.6 trn in assets have sent joint letters to 15 international food and drink companies amid growing concerns over water security and pollution.

As the three - year controversy over the gun club came to a head, questions arose about the legitimacy of the issue of lead - shot pollution, the possibility of an underlying anti-gun sentiment, and the role of Park District politics in the decision to seek the gun club «s ouster.

CRYSTAL LAKE — The panel that monitors pollution levels in Crystal Lake has agreed to look for a firm to collect and analyze lake - bottom soil borings to determine the makeup and origin of black muck that has been accumulating west of Main Beach over the past decade.

In fact, cars and trucks alone account for over one - quarter of all US pollution.

The HRNRDF is funded by General Electric, as part of the company's mitigation agreement developed in the wake of pollution caused over generations by GE's former manufacturing complex on the Housatonic in Pittsfield.

«Air pollution in the UK has declined significantly over recent decades through measures to reduce pollution from transport, industrial and domestic sources.

Over the past decade, I have spent almost two years living in rural China and researching attitudes to development, illness, pollution and morality.

Indeed, China's rapid emergence as an economic power since the early 1980s has been accompanied by growing concerns over its environmental impacts, particularly in terms of pollution.

A British court on Thursday blocked pollution claims against Anglo - Dutch energy giant Shell by more than 40,000 Niger Delta residents demanding action over decades of oil spills in the region.

Donnelly says the deal also means updated pollution control and monitoring, and gives local officials control over the source of trash for the incinerator, something county officials have emphasized in the past.

The five - page fact sheet asks and responds to 17 of the most common questions about health risks and concludes with a section recommending links for additional information, which comes in response to what is now a well - documented issue involving the pollution of local drinking water sources over a period of years by a factory manufacturing non-stick products.

And if there is one thing everyone agrees about in drug policy it is that the MDA (and similar legislation in other countries) was not intended to create a huge criminal market; undermine international development and security; increase health harms including HIV / AIDS; promote stigma and discrimination; lead to deforestation and pollution, and undermine human rights all over the globe (see countthecosts.org for details).

As GE seeks to close the books on a $ 1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River, a new fight is simmering over the company's legacy of toxic pollution in the region.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

During his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his ChargeNY plan to invest $ 50 million over five years in electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported oil.

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

On a domestic level, the Conservatives set a «goal» of insulating one million more homes over the five years of this parliament in an effort to cut fuel poverty, pollution and wastage.

Across the nation, concern over contamination has risen in places like Seattle, where the city recently sued the agribusiness giant Monsanto over chemical pollution in the Duwamish River, and in Minnesota, where a state report issued last week found that up to 60 percent of groundwater samples from wells in the central part of the state had unsafe levels of nitrates.

Another organization, the Clean Air Task Force, estimates particle pollution from power plants claims over 40 lives a year in the Rochester area, for example.

Residents also expressed concern Thursday over a possible increase in noise and pollution from directing traffic from the FDR onto residential streets like East 35th Street.

This image shows the pollution over Indonesia and the Indian Ocean in 1997.

In October 2010, as heavy smog hung over Beijing, the U.S. embassy's Twitter feed said its rooftop pollution sensor had detected «crazy bad» levels of hazardous microparticles.

Using data from 16 ice cores collected from widely spaced locations around the Antarctic continent, including the South Pole, a group led by Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, created the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of lead pollution over Earth's southernmost continent.

Rising temperatures — an average increase in the United States of 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years — are exacerbating a whole range of modern ills, including pollution, urban crowding, and inadequate medical facilities.

Over the years, ConocoPhillips — an energy company so rich that it earns as much in a year as Croatia — has positioned itself as a good guy among its peers when it comes to greenhouse gas pollution.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

They found that hailstorms over the eastern United States peak in the middle of the week, when summertime air pollution is at its worst.

Steps taken to clean up car exhaust over the past few decades have had a huge effect, and as a result, «the sources of air pollution are now becoming more diverse in cities,» said McDonald, a chemist at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo..

As regards pollution prevention, we have unfortunately seen an unprecedented effort to weaken and dismantle the Clean Water Act over the past two years, with 31 votes specifically targeting that landmark legislation in the 112th Congress.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.