Sentences with phrase «pollution near their school»
A YouGov poll, carried out for Sustrans, has revealed that 43 per cent of children living in urban areas are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school.
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Fruin's team at the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California suspected that residents near LAX, the sixth busiest airport in the world, were getting exposed to excessive doses of pollution from airplanes even farther from the runways than previous research had considered.
The planting of trees and bushes near schools to cut air pollution — so - called «barrier bushes» — has been the subject of a growing debate in recent years.
Furthermore, trees and bushes planted near schools can be a cause of natural air pollution themselves, such as pollen and ozone.
The SRTS program aims to reduce congestion, air pollution, and traffic conflicts near participating schools, while increasing the health and mobility of school - aged children.
Another study has found that idling vehicles do create serious pollution: «The concentration of air pollutants near schools may significantly exceed community background levels, particularly in the presence of idling school buses.»