Sentences with phrase «polluting the air for»

I'd be willing to bet that as you keep chanting your little verse you're probably puffing away on a cigarette polluting the air for «children and other living things»!
The mice breathed the polluted air for six hours per day, five days a week for 128 days.

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The reasoning goes: why should limited natural resources be used for free, and why should polluting shared air and water not come with a price tag?
If you are looking for a wireless charger in a place with polluted air or a place with lots of pets, the Gbreeze is a perfect product for you.
There is no Noah's Ark for the nouveau riche if air and water, land and environment are fatally polluted.
In the routine running of their churches, they are looking for ways to recycle paper, conserve energy and avoid polluting the air and water.
Some might think Podhoretz was unfortunate in his friends and others might think his friends were unfortunate in him, but he is grateful for the contentious entanglement of friendships and ideas that has brought him to where he is as one who intends to challenge «the regnant leftist culture that pollutes the spiritual and cultural air we all breathe, and to do so with all my heart and all my soul and all my might.»
But neither can we indiscriminately and indefinitely plunder the planet for its resources, overpopulate it with people, and pollute our air and water without paying the terrible consequences in human misery.
Even the best people will not attain the best potential of their lives when they live in a very imperfect society; for example a society that does little about the way industry pollutes the air and water and whose transport system is inadequate.
A conventional lawn mower pollutes as much in an hour as 40 late model cars (or as much as as much air pollution as driving a car for 100 miles).
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.»
She called for a new Clean Air Act and said Government must rewrite its Air Quality Strategy immediately, commit to removing the most polluting vehicles from the roads as soon as possible and set up a national network of Clean Air Zones.
Costs for the state's air pollution control system, which under federal law must be paid for by polluting industries, keep sinking under a rising tide of red ink that taxpayers keep bailing out.
This, he said, was not beneficial for Nigeria economically and health-wise, as data at the disposal of government showed that thousands of women and children had died as a result of diseases caused by firewood and kerosene polluted air.
Investigative Post determined the DEC had no testing results to compare Peace Bridge air with except for two spots deemed among the most polluted in the region.
Danish researchers, with colleagues in the United States and Taiwan, published a study last year in Environmental Health Perspectives looking at people with and without Parkinson's and their exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a marker for traffic - polluted air.
The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.
«If you want cleaner [three - wheelers], you have to introduce new technologies and eliminate polluting rickshaws,» explains Sophie Punte, executive director of the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities, from Manila.
On a sunny day in 1991, for instance, three cycling buddies in sprawling Atlanta together lamented the city's polluted air and lack of bike trails.
They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.
BEIJING — For many of the expats here in one of the world's most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air - quality readings.
Odors are consumed by microorganisms, so that the more polluted the air, there will be more food for the bacteria without incurring any cost,» said Uribe Lobo.
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and / or land resources), to provide healthful water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.
The same could happen to insect pollinators while foraging for food in polluted air masses.»
The study authors emphasize that this effect could extend to potentially «devastating» economic consequences for cities that will need to pay more to cool buildings, clean polluted air, and ensure clean drinking water.
While it's true that our air, water and food are polluted to a certain level and we ingest toxic chemicals on a daily basis, our bodies are naturally well equipped for dealing with such issues and rarely need our help in doing so.
Beeswax candles are a great substitute for artificially scented paraffin candles and they actually work to purify the air instead of pollute it.
The air inside our homes can be two to five times as polluted as the air outside — bad news, especially for the more than 20 percent of us who suffer from allergies.
Lucky for us the plants can also help clean indoor air on Earth, which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air.
Amsterdam, North Holland About Blog Hi, I am Natalia and I'm going zero waste, which means my ultimate goal is to produce zero trash and stop the infinite demand for extraction of non-renewable resources that end up polluting the soil, the oceans and the air.
With a vicious, chemical disease polluting the air outside, Howard has locked himself, Michelle and fellow «survivor» Emmett (John Gallagher Jr) inside for their own safety, away from the unknown threat that awaits on the other side of the doors above.
London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first of 50 air quality audits for primary schools in the worst polluted areas in the capital in a bid to protect children from toxic air.
For example, many of my students live in poor, heavily polluted areas, so when we study intermolecular properties and precipitation reactions, we examine the air and water quality in their neighborhoods.
By recycling plastic, Febreze and Tesco, in partnership with TerraCycle, help to reduce plastic litter from entering nature's playground and polluting the planet, instead creating play areas for kids to enjoy a bit of fresh air everywhere.
Taking that idea to its illogical conclusion is an unusual button for the climate system that maximizes air filtration for polluted areas: «You just push the bioweapon defense mode button.
More than 480,000 of its diesel - powered vehicles are under scrutiny from the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for allegedly polluting the air.
The diesel engine with proper clean technology is fine, but letting them pollute the way they did adding carcinogens to the air we breath, acid rain, etc. calls for VW to be spanked hard and their diesel to die.
For instance running of millions of vehicles on the road emit very harmful substances in the environment which pollute the air.
The hotel is ideal for those who would like to stay far away from the noises and the polluted air of the city.
Four hundred years later, the government is suppressing the people, steam and coal powered machines are polluting the air, and Cain Ashton is resurrected into another body (a previously occupied body, to be more exact) to begin his quest for the 7 pieces of his spirit he probably shouldn't have lost to begin with.
Lomborg was a member of Greenpeace and when he began the research for «The Skeptical Environmentalist», he was intending to support the notions of resource scarcity, increasingly polluted air and water and the rest of the «littany» as he calls it.
The river may be so polluted that you can't let your dog swim in it; the park may be littered with garbage after a weekend or holiday, but for Tel Avivians, Park Hayarkon is their Central Park and a breath of fresh air from the cement and chaos of
China is a communist dictatorship of USSR style power - seekers and power - holders (for them and their children) and the people of China, most of them salt of the Earth people, are brainwashed, mindcontrolled robots of the Chinese Communist Party, and they are afraid to speak out, they are afraid to ask for change, they are afraid to do anything but work hard for the «motherland», shop for consumer gadgets with their nouveau - riche yuan, and think along very narrow nationalistic lines (remember Hainan Island shoot down and breaking the windows of the US Embassy in Beijing), so we are dealing with an abnormal country, a very messed up brainwashed mindcontrolled bunch of people, who want nothing more than to become rich and prosperous and powerful and world domination country — and if some people die along the way from poisoned rivers, SARS, bird flu, polluted air, tainted food or poisonous toys THEY DO NOT CARE ONE IOTA.
Editor's Notes: • HFCs are super polluting greenhouse gases thousands of times more damaging to the climate than CO2, used as substitutes for ozone - depleting substances in refrigeration, air - conditioning and foams.
Backed by powerful oil, coal, and gas companies, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed repealing America's Clean Power Plan, which would allow these companies to keep polluting our air and destroying our climate — regardless of what it means for everyday citizens or our planet.
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.»
For example, a tax on coal that incorporated the increased health care costs associated with mining it and breathing polluted air, the costs of damage from acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption would encourage investment in clean renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar.
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Energy - gobbling buildings, air - polluting cars, sprawling suburbs, carbon - spewing power plants — cities account for more than 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and two - thirds of the world's energy use.
But the fact is China's desperate need for more domestically - produced power that doesn't further degrade their dwindling water supplies or pollute their air — which will give your eyes and lungs a good burn on a stagnant day — is a major catalyst for renewable energy growth in the Middle Kingdom.
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