Sentences with phrase «pollutants than those in other areas»

Research Points to the Inescapable Dangers of Toxic Chemicals — Sperm Whale Study Even whales living in the remote Galapagos Islands appear to have been exposed to higher levels of pollutants than those in other areas of the Pacific, despite the islands isolation from cities and industry.

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Other tests show that the level of air and water pollutants in the area is no higher than it was last year.

That was part of the logic for why so many folks have been keen to make a big push on soot and other SLCPs [short - lived climate pollutants]-- the piece that Charlie Kennel, Ram Ramanathan and I had in Foreign Affairs a couple years ago lays out the POLITICAL logic for action in that area as well as the new science showing that SLCPs are more important than previously thought.

And a new study from Harvard and Syracuse Universities suggests that the EPA's plan could carry some health benefits by reducing more than 750,000 tons of other pollutants from coal - fired power plants, reducing the risk of asthma and heart attacks in areas near the plants.