Sentences with phrase «pollution into»

Rain barrels, which attach to downspouts, catch rainwater which would otherwise flow into sewers and over dirty streets, carrying pollution into local streams.

Volcanoes, for example, shoot more pollution into the atmosphere than ever produced by every single car that has ever been driven on the face of the Earth

Companies that release heat - trapping pollution into the air should be accountable for those costs.

That's because the additional processing and shipping of liquefied gas would put even more greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.

This means fossil fuels could be allowed to pour even more pollution into our air.

The report, titled Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, found that the company is «one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity,» and that Walmart's dependence on dirty power «pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.»

In short, on a per ticket basis the added cost — which should be passed onto the consumer if the price signal is to have its proper effect of incorporating the costs of pollution into the price paid by consumers — it's minimal.

Monbiot, who lives in the United Kingdom, goes on to describe how the dairy industry is protected by the government's Environmental Agency, which conducts «farcical investigations» and fails to prosecute blatant pollution; meanwhile, dairy farmers continue to dump obscene amounts of pollution into waterways all around the world, and dairy cows continue to suffer for longer periods of time even than cows raised for meat.

Gross External Damages (GED) MMN11 present a framework to include the externalities associated with air pollution into a system of national accounts.

Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85 - mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where more than 140 industrial plants spew pollution into the air and water.

«The legislation proposed by Rep. Upton and Sen. Inhofe would allow polluters to emit unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the environment.

«We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, sulfur and arsenic that power plants put in our air and water, but they can dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air.

Washington, D.C. — As a growing group of environmental leaders call on Walmart to stop greenwashing and commit to real sustainability, a new study finds that Walmart is one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity, and that its heavy reliance on dirty power pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.

The states represented here today have long been working hard to sound the alarm, to put smart policies in place, to speed our transition to a clean energy future, and to stop power plants from emitting millions of tons of dangerous global - warming pollution into our air.»

By regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants, Obama is essentially forcing utilities to take the cost of pollution into consideration for generation fleets.

Because we're putting 35 billion tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every year.

The world's oceans are getting warmer as we pump more and more carbon pollution into the atmosphere.

«This feature is likely important not only for the oil spill, but also for the dispersal of nutrients, sediments and pollution into the Gulf,» Jerolmack said.

But although we do need the greenhouse effect, we certainly don't need to make it stronger by pumping carbon pollution into the air.

I have seen no plans recommending incorporating damages from non-climate air pollution into the costs of using fossil fuels.

We are putting 35 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year.

Unfortunately, we're putting more carbon pollution into the atmosphere than natural systems can absorb, and that's why the planet is warming.

Humans put about 35 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year!

Previously, power plants were allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

Finally, advocates of the technology had a chance to present the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that nuclear is, in fact, our safest energy source precisely because it emits no deadly pollution into the environment.

«If I was relying on products made in China, then I would really be seeking to incorporate shadow pricing that reflects air pollution into the calculation of price inflation going forward and seeking to minimize that by working with the right sets of suppliers.»

You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

«Oil pumps life harmful pollution into the air.»

SMIAs are a special zoning designation which clusters heavy industrial use and other sources of pollution into a few areas of the City.

As part of that order, Trump directedfederal agencies to stop using the social cost of carbon — the estimated economic cost of emitting 1 ton of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — in their cost - benefit analyses.

«These programs internalize the cost of pollution into the market and preserve the most cost - effective source of carbon abatement available to consumers.

Without alteration work, sewers will overflow more frequently and spill pollution into seas and rivers, while heavier rainfall is likely to cause frequent damage to roads, railway tracks and bridges.

According to Apple, the programs will aid in preventing 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from being released as pollution into China's atmosphere until the year 2020.

When people see the limit to how much adaptive preparedness you can do, and it will be limited, hopefully that will drive the discourse to, «my god we have to stop putting carbon pollution into the atmosphere.»

Burning all that coal pumps almost 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere every year.

Turn pollution into energy?

If the problem is that we have too many power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere, I am highly skeptical that the way we are going to solve this problem is by building more power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.

Not surprisingly, the company's lawyers tried to prevent their client from having to pay a penalty for all those years it had been dumping pollution into the river.

From an environmental perspective, the 1990 standard is the anti-thesis of the polluter pays principle as it capitalizes historic pollution into a valuable emissions right.

The laws of physics do apply and when we put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day, it traps a lot of heat.»

They can incorporate environmental curriculum about plastic pollution into their lesson plans for Climate Education Week: April 16 - 22, 2018.

And, important for many in the movement, he spoke about the need to keep «some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.»

The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».

These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.»

But judicial determination could take years, allowing Pruitt to give Big Polluters carte blanche to continue dumping dangerous pollution into our atmosphere like it's an open sewer.

and there are living things that release pollution into the ocean called «smokers» they are plants that don't use photosynthesis because they are very far underneath the ocean.

It's Economics 101: When putting carbon pollution into our common atmosphere is no longer free, industry will have a bottom - line incentive to find clean alternatives — and investors, inventors and entrepreneurs will join the race.

That was the question answered by the development of The Solar Plastic Kiln, which uses the power of the sun to melt common plastic ocean pollution into useful materials like bricks or boards.

Of course, this climate - changing consequence of fossil fuel burning will only be an issue if the world continues to pump fossil fuel pollution into the skies.

«But they can dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air.