Sentences with phrase «premature death of thousands»

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Similarly, early action to reduce exposure to fine particle pollution helped avoid thousands of premature deaths from heart and lung disease.

«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.

These measures helped prevent 8,300 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of respiratory illnesses.

In England recently, «do not resuscitate» orders were routinely and illegally placed in thousands of patient files without their consent, resulting in untold premature deaths.

Tragically, these culturally based practices led to the deaths of possibly as many as 600 thousand infants from SIDS, in part because our society promoted a kind of premature deep, uninterrupted sleep, in sensory - deprived (solitary) environments for which the naturally vulnerable and neurologically immature human infant was not and is not, biologically prepared.

«It's outrageous that London is choking on air so dirty it's illegal - air pollution contributes to thousands of premature deaths every year in the capital, particularly affecting some of its most disadvantaged people.

«Understanding how these pollutants interact with the environment, including snow, is crucial if we are to reduce the hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by mild air pollution in North America.

-- Charlene Colchester, via e-mail Bhopal should have been a wake up call, but it is unclear whether chemical plants around the world are any safer a quarter century after the December 1984 disaster — during which some 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical), killing 2,259 people immediately and causing lifelong health problems and premature death for tens of thousands more.

The pollution could lead to «several hundreds of thousands» of premature deaths from respiratory diseases, the report suggests.

Every year, sulfur dioxide causes thousands of premature deaths, respiratory ailments, heart disease and a host of ecosystem damages.

By GLYN JONES «The greatest epidemiologist ever — he must have saved hundreds of thousands from premature death.»

«The greatest epidemiologist ever — he must have saved hundreds of thousands from premature death.»

Mastering Diabetes: Studies conducted in tens of thousands of people over 5 + years indicate that low - carbohydrate diets increase your risk for cardiovascular disease, hemorrhagic stroke, hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes mortality, obesity, cancer, and all - cause mortality (premature death).

List all the bad habits you have that are linked to illness and premature death, and you'll find the items that insurance companies use to increase the cost of premium per thousand dollars of life insurance.

But it comes with significant environmental and social costs (scoured landscapes, carbon dioxide, around 4,000 deaths a year in Chinese mines, tens of thousands of premature deaths from respiratory ailments linked to sooty pollution).

gavin: «They'd also be pretty happy at the concomitant reduction in air pollution, indoor smoke, bronchial disorders, polluted water and smog which contribute to premature deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellows.

Global adoption of Euro VI standards could avoid 300 - 700 thousand premature deaths in 2030 by reducing particulates and co-pollutants emitted by on and off - road vehicles.

The price of coal would increase dramatically if it reflected the cost borne by society from the pollution that causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year in coal - dependent countries.

Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.

These pollutants get into the air and cause a lot of problems, including thousands of premature deaths every year.

This descriptor fails to present Holmstead's current and past work as a registered lobbyist for coal companies, and leaves out the destructive decisions that Holmstead made in his stint at EPA, which directly contributed to the premature death of tens of thousands of people in this country.

These new standards are expected to save $ 280 billion in annual health care costs and prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths.

Suppose someone offered you an electricity fuel that would cause tens of thousands of premature deaths every year and add hundreds of billions of dollars in extra health care costs?

The Environmental Protection Agency blames soot for tens of thousands of premature deaths and hospitalizations every year in the United States; and according to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, a soot component — black carbon — is the second largest contributor to climate change, coming in just behind carbon dioxide.

Increased air pollution is the major cause of thousands of premature deaths every year as well as related health problems for tens of thousands of others.

In November, 2011 at an Energy Forum hosted by Politico, Jeff Holmstead was interrupted on stage by a Greenpeace activist, citing his role in delaying mercury regulations at U.S. power plants for eight years and asserting that Holmstead's decisions directly resulted in the premature death of tens of thousands of people.