Sentences with phrase «radioactive pollution from»

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The generation enjoying the benefits of producing chemical and radioactive waste should consider investing a portion of today's profits in an endowment fund, gathered perhaps from a pollution tax.

This result is surprising because many types of fungi, including truffles, grow underground in — and draw nutrients from — soil prone to accumulating radioactive pollution.

Recent years have seen Indonesian fires clouding the air all over southeast Asia, air pollution from China being measurable in California... and that's not even mentioning radioactive clouds from Chernobyl spreading across Europe.

And they listed a set of what they call «no trespass zones», from which refugees would be excluded either legally, or by violence, or by the risk of landmines or radioactive pollution.

Until these risks are properly mitigated and the complete nuclear fuel cycle — from the mining and milling of uranium to the final disposal of radioactive wastes — is sufficiently regulated, nuclear power should not be a leading strategy for diversifying America's energy portfolio and reducing carbon pollution.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.