Sentences with phrase «pollution crisis»

However, real solutions already exist to the plastic pollution crisis.

It aims to hold corporations accountable for the plastic pollution crisis they helped to create.

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

But the unfolding water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls has turned the administration's relationship with the EPA, and in particular with the Region 2 office headed by administrator Judith Enck, especially toxic.

Cuomo called for more facts and less emotion as his administration continues to investigate a water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

HOOSICK FALLS — At the first of three hearings into the Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis on Tuesday, the message from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration was clear: the federal Environmental Protection Agency was at fault.

With respect to the time required to create widespread fear of a phony pollution crisis, that estimate seems to have been pretty accurate.

Using computer simulations, Gray said he was able to «draw a clear map tracing the trail of health damages left by the coal fumes released by every power plant in China, untangling the contribution of individual companies, provinces and power stations to the air pollution crisis gripping the country.»

But with determination and inventiveness, perhaps one day the environmental consequences of the private car will be as dim a memory as the horse pollution crisis of the 19th century.

The Conservative's ignoble and illegal response to the air pollution crisis continues with the topic not meriting a mention in the manifesto.

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

As state legislators began hearings on the Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis on Tuesday, state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Basil Seggos and Department of Health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency demanding reimbursement of continuing costs related to the mishandling of the crisis.

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.

But in this case, early in the twenty - first century will come a pollution crisis that will destroy in a few years five sixths of the world's population!

Now is the perfect time for a response - to the financial storm and to the underlying resource crunch (the age of cheap plentiful oil is coming to an end) and to the pollution crisis (climate chaos, the ultimate literal storm)- that will actually work.

In Hoosick Falls, the first dire warning about the pollution crisis came when Enck warned local residents against drinking their water in December.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

The city's mayor, Judy Kennedy, was angry about the declaration and said she had been in talks with the Cuomo administration and the EPA about how to handle the pollution crisis.

POLITICO has reported that the Cuomo administration aggressively pushed back on EPA officials raising concerns about the water pollution crisis.

HOOSICK FALLS — The Cuomo administration is requesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pay for its «counterproductive» response to the Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis.

Commentaries by two of China's most influential news outlets suggesting that the country's air pollution crisis was not without a silver lining drew a withering reaction on Tuesday from internet users and other media.

Even in a government not prone to harsh self - evaluation, a top Chinese environmental official pronounced ominously last year that the pollution crisis at home «allows for no optimism.»

China's battle against a persistent air pollution crisis, which all but shut down a city of 11 million this week, is being hampered by tough weather conditions, an environmental official said on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's battle against a persistent air pollution crisis, which all but shut down a city of 11 million this week, is being hampered by tough weather conditions, an environmental official said on Tuesday.

In response, ClientEarth and the British Lung Foundation have launched the Clean Air Parents» Network to support concerned parents and carers of children across the country who want to help solve the UK's air pollution crisis.

Some of the paper's most important environmental projects, including the prize - winning «Choking on Growth» series on China's pollution crisis, Charles Duhigg's 2010 series, «Toxic Waters,» Jeff Gettleman's 2012 reports on links between insurgent forces and Africa's elephant slaughter, originated on different desks.

During Earth month, Climate Education week, and in the past few weeks since Earth Day, it has been so encouraging to hear from educators across the world who have used our toolkit to teach students about the plastic pollution crisis and what needs to be done to protect our environment.

At the same time, Prime Minister Narenda Modi and his ministers need to urgently tackle an air pollution crisis that contributes to over a million premature deaths every year.

Moreover, the pollution crisis in Chinese cities has led to a dramatic shift in sentiment against coal.

This 32 - page report provides a detailed analysis of how the rapid expansion of coal - fired power generation over the last decade has contributed to India's rapidly growing air pollution crisis.

Ann Luskey and Julia Cohen presented the facts about the global plastic pollution crisis, and what we all can do to participate and activate solutions.

With this, however, both countries are also having to respond to air pollution crises, increasing congestion and diminished quality of life.

Dear Editor: The plastics pollution crisis has reached horrifying levels, as environmental organizations like Riverkeeper have been trying to tell us.

However, challenges with forecasting, grid reliability, transmission, and surging demand suggest that the country is going to have to rely on a number of additional strategies in order to meet its climate goals, and to reverse its growing air pollution crisis.

And coal prices have plummeted globally, as China tackles its air pollution crisis and industrial overcapacity by cutting coal use.

The damage from a major increase in exports of publicly owned coal to Asian markets would go beyond encouraging more coal consumption in a region that is struggling to respond to an air pollution crisis.

Officials also pointed to farmers burning crop stubble and low winds as additional causes for the pollution crisis.

As in the United States, some in China are concerned that shale gas development could trigger a major pollution crisis.

These days, to experience the kind of pollution crisis that used to be all too frequent in Los Angeles or Houston, you have to go to places like Beijing or New Delhi...

Due to China's air pollution crisis, mainly caused by massive coal burning, 10 of China's 34 provinces have pledged to peak and decline their coal consumption by 2017 and have banned the construction of new coal - fired power plants.

Corporate Real Estate Community Addresses Air Quality Issues in China April 18, 2017 China is grappling with a serious air pollution crisis that not only poses a threat to public health, but also could very well be an impediment to China's economic growth.