Sentences with phrase «pollution costs»

Workers miss 400,000 days of work every year due to air pollution, and in total air pollution costs the region's economy $ 22 billion annually.

Lower fuel costs, better safety and possibly pollution costs.

In a commercial auto policy, cleanup costs are typically referred to as covered pollution cost or expense.

Making climate pollution a cost of doing business is the path many governments are already taking, from California to Brussels to Beijing.

But in figuring that specific cost, renewables ought to be credited with what expenses are spared (e.g., the cost of building more coal plants and the spared pollution costs associated with them).

Renewables are getting cheaper while gas and coal plants will face increasing carbon pollution costs.»

Coal - related pollution costs Alberta $ 300 million a year in health - care expenses, and sends as many as 100 Albertans to an early death each year.

But its formidable economic problems — a disappearing labour surplus, less price competitiveness, high pollution costs, bad bank loans and the need to improve state - funded social security — are worsening.

For example, if pollution costs everybody, there should be a way to make the polluter pay for it.

To better understand how pollution costs Canadians, the authors suggest, further research is needed on the economic and environmental impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, heavy metals from contaminated mine sites and agricultural runoff.

The authors try to establish a framework for integrating air - pollution costs into national accounts — that is, a systematic way of accounting for those «externalities» you're always hearing about — and come up with something called gross external damages (GED).

(It bears noting that the technologies are cleaner than fossil fuels, and therefore create fewer pollution costs for society, many of which are not counted in the price of electricity.)

The coal subsidies do the exact opposite; instead of making utilities and coal companies internalize pollution costs, they actually shift more costs onto the public.

Additional drivers of this revolution include the local and global pollution costs of extracting, transporting, refining and consuming fossil fuels.

This is an era of increasing global fiscal budget constraints, and the trend toward greater industry internalization of fossil - fuel pollution costs and the reduction in fossil fuel subsidies is gaining unstoppable momentum.

This analysis discusses pollution costs from greenhouse gases (GHG), but ignores substantial costs from other pollutants.

Imagine an economic vision where we incorporate a whole systems perspective, adequate physical and biological contexts (i.e. planetary carrying capacity considerations), accurate feedback systems (wherein pollution costs are factored into the price of goods and services) thus better representing the actual (or true) costs of our activities.

For example, depending on how much more we value a dollar today than in the future (a factor known as «discount rate»), Shindell estimates carbon pollution costs us $ 32 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted in climate damages, and another $ 45 in additional climate - health impacts like malnutrition that aren't normally accounted for.

These air pollution costs are effectively a massive subsidy, and Shindell likely underestimated their size.

He assigns a high priority to «environmental justice,» citing studies that show poor people and minorities bear a disproportionate share of the nation's pollution costs.

In Southern California, pollution costs each of us $ 1,250 every year.

It is like the pollution cost.

A new paper published in Climatic Change estimates that when we account for the pollution costs associated with our energy sources, gasoline costs an extra $ 3.80 per gallon, diesel an additional $ 4.80 per gallon, coal a further 24 cents per kilowatt - hour, and natural gas another 11 cents per kilowatt - hour that we don't see in our fuel or energy bills.

If instead of subsidizing wind, fossil fuels paid $ 20 / ton - CO 2 of their pollution cost, then natural gas would be brought online first after wind, at a cost of 4.1 cents / kWh, paid to both wind and natural gas providers.

It shows no interest in climate change, or the pollution costs of fossil fuels, or long - term price stability, or job creation, or asthma rates.