Sentences with phrase «plant health power»

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OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

The documentary follows these individuals on a 30 - day raw food journey to better health, after 30 days the participants no longer need their insulin...... «Simply Raw» has received loads of community support and accolades to the power of a raw food plant based diet.

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Recipe from The Abundance Diet: The 28 - Day Plan to Reinvent Your Health, Lose Weight, and Discover the Power of Plant - Based Foods.

Recipe from Plant - Powered for Life: Eat Your Way to Lasting Health with 52 Simple Steps and 125 Delicious Recipes, © 2014 Sharon Palmer.

I love how the power of plants can directly impact our health.

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Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

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We help individuals and groups achieve their health goals through a whole - food, plant - powered and planet - friendly way of eating.

Off - topic questions covered Governor Cuomo's efforts at closing the Indian Point nuclear power plant, NYPD Commissioner Bratton's recent statements on the need for additional police officers for anti-terror efforts and the closing of a specific health clinic in Chelsea.

Sheridan Hollow residents and local environmental advocates have continued to voice concerns that authorities haven't weighed the public - health impact of the upcoming project set for the Sheridan Ave. steam plant that will house an oil and gas - powered microgrid.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has scored a victory in his long - running battle against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, thanks to a federal appeals court that reversed a lower court ruling on the commission's responsibility to involve and notify the public before exempting the Hudson Valley nuclear power plant from health and safety requirements.

The agreement followed serious health and environmental violations by two of Niagara Mohawk's coal - fired power plants in the western part of the state - the Huntley Station near Tonawanda, and the Dunkirk Station in Dunkirk.

At 1 p.m., environmental activists call for action on unchecked carbon pollution from power plants to protect public health, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The radioactive fallout from a nuclear power plant melt down or nuclear waste is life threatening and a public health catastrophe.

Dr. Howard A. Zucker, the state health commissioner, said that the Saint - Gobain plant would be deemed a state Superfund site — giving the state the power to seek reimbursements for the cleanup costs from the source of the pollution — and that private wells in the area would also be tested for PFOA, which some studies have linked to an increased risk for cancer.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exHealth Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exhealth effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

The agency, tasked with protecting the state's environment and public health, denied air quality permits for two 700 - megawatt, coal - fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric for Holcomb, a municipality in the southwestern corner of the state.

New coal power plants won't find a home in Kansas, according to the state's Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

There has long been concern about the health effects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from vehicle exhausts and power plants.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

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Until the Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently decided that space is not under its purview, astronauts were officially classified as radiological workers, a category that also includes employees of nuclear power plants.

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It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

In a press release, Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific adviser for the American Lung Association, said, «Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.&rpower plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.&rPower Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.»

The extra radionuclides from Fukushima are simply not enough to create a dose large enough to cause any human health effects outside the immediate vicinity of the stricken nuclear power plant.

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health...

Networks are used in electrical power grids, nuclear power plants, financial systems, transportation systems, health care systems, identification systems (including the new biometric chips in U.S. passports), and U.S. federal agencies» operations and assets.

Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicle fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat.

Researchers emphasize, however, that environmental levels of radiation outside the 20 - kilo metre evacuation zone around the power plant are currently far below levels that warrant concerns about human health.

In May 2004, high levels of air pollution in Tongliang prompted the government to shut down the local coal - burning power plant to improve community health.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

«The new study adds to the evidence that closing this coal - burning power plant was beneficial to the health and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Hhealth and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HHealth and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HHealth Sciences at the Mailman School of Public HealthHealth.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

Regulating power plant emissions would avert 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in the CPP's first year, he said at the time, adding that shifting the U.S. power supply to renewables is «one of the best things we can do for our economy, our health and our environment.»

EPA had also set out a separate finding in 2015 as part of the new source rule for power plants, specifically stating that the facilities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, harming human health.

Shifting coal - fired power plants in the U.S. to natural gas would have tremendous positive effects on human health in America

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

This «paves the way for technologies that would protect public health and help reduce the effects of climate change,» Johnson said in a statement, although the Bush administration canceled the largest planned demonstration of the technology, the so - called FutureGen power plant in Mattoon, Ill..

Should the EPA figure the cost of reducing mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants for health reasons?

As a lobbyist, he said, «It's pretty hard to say that [mercury from power plants] is a significant public health issue.»

As a functional medicine doctor, my goal is to search out the best way for my patients to use food as medicine to optimize their health, and as a tea obsessive, I have a particular penchant for the healing power of the plants in the tea kingdom.