Sentences with phrase «range of pollution»

Lisa Garcia guides Earthjustice's work in groundbreaking litigation to protect communities and families from the wide range of pollution issues that confront them on a daily basis.

Surely, it is time for the Department of the Environment to add light to the range of pollution it currently controls.

Not exact matches

THE FACTS: Clean coal covers a range of technologies, some already in use, to reduce pollution.

This confluence of forces has led China to implement a wide range of policies supporting a transition to clean energy — from feed - in - tariffs for renewable power, to electric vehicle incentives, to market - based policies to reduce carbon pollution.

Tenneco designs, builds and sells products that cut pollution and improve performance for light vehicles, commercial trucks and a range of other vehicles.

He says eliminating the processing center will not only displace workers (who might go to Manhattan, but also could end up being transferred anywhere within a 50 - mile range of New York City), it will delay delivery of mail to the entire borough, hurt local businesses around the plant who won't have those 271 customers anymore and increase pollution with the increased truck traffic.

Cuomo's proposal comes three months after a state task force laid out a range of options to address plastic - bag pollution, including a statewide ban or a small per - bag fee on consumers.

He answered questions about potential lead pollution from a gun range in the Bronx, the availability of prekindergarten seats on the Upper East Side and reforms at Rikers Island.

Torres, also endorsed by StreetsPAC, is well versed in a broad range of progressive issues — from participatory budgeting to the battle against «predatory equity» and derelict landlords to sustainability, a key policy concern of his that encompasses issues including the health impacts of truck exhaust pollution, the need for congestion pricing to reduce traffic, the availability of nutritious fresh food, and the maintenance of affordable and livable housing.

Check out the fascinating products here which offer features ranging from color adjustment for better visibility of planets to light pollution reduction.

Rising temperatures — an average increase in the United States of 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years — are exacerbating a whole range of modern ills, including pollution, urban crowding, and inadequate medical facilities.

For decades, however, efforts to safeguard drinking water were hampered because no one had an accurate sense of the full range of contaminants in the water supply, nor of the geographic extent of the pollution.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

During the 1970s and»80s, though, it wasn't dissection but the loss of habitat, disease and pollution that combined to greatly reduce the number of northern leopard frogs throughout their range.

According to an analysis by Scientific American and legal scholars, federal agencies have suspended enforcement of at least 39 rules from the administration of Pres. Barack Obama affecting issues ranging from air pollution to airlines» handling of wheelchairs.

This HIA, done in conjunction with other environmental assessments under NEPA, made several proposals relating to factors ranging from monitoring pollution to managing caribou herds for subsistence populations,, many of which were later accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

As to reasons for the decline, most analysts point to a range of factors including diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease - ridden hatchery fish, and global warming — which creates some problems and exacerbates others.

West coast salmon runs have been in decline for decades, stemming largely from the damming of rivers and the pollution throughout the fish's extensive range from freshwater mountain streams to deep offshore ocean currents.

«High levels of hazardous chemicals found in plastics collected from Lake Geneva: A survey of one of Europe's largest lakes finds a wide range of plastic pollution — some of which could be decades old.»

Concerns about the heavy levels of air pollution from some Asian cities are sufficient that Simonich is doing monitoring on Oregon's Mount Bachelor, a 9,065 - foot mountain in the central Oregon Cascade Range.

Writing in the journal, Conservation Biology, scientists recommend the adoption of measures to mitigate against a range of effects including; food scarcity (where fisheries compete for the same resources), being caught in fishing nets, oil pollution and climate change.

Research at other parks investigates a wide range of other environmental threats, including air and noise pollution and invasive species.

Plastic debris degrades into ever - smaller pieces, which means that a wider range of organisms can ingest this material, and particles of microplastic are now the most abundant form of solid - waste pollution on our planet.

He joined the Vancouver Aquarium in 2014 to launch its Ocean Pollution Research Program, which conducts international - caliber scientific research on pollution, ranging from marine debris to the impact of hydrocarbons on the coastal environmental.

Ambient levels of air pollution are known to be associated with a wide range of adverse health effects that particularly affect the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

«It is therefore reasonable to expect that precipitation extremes will continue to intensify,» although how much is still a mystery, largely thanks to an unclear understanding of the atmospheric impact of how tiny flecks of pollution in the atmosphere — known as aerosols to scientists and comprising materials ranging from soot to sulfur dioxide.

«We wanted there to be a range of power sources and an understanding of the impact of each, including local pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and the willingness of people to live next to energy - producing facilities,» she adds.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was an international, multiplatform field campaign to measure long - range transport of air pollution from South and Southeast Asia toward the Indian Ocean during the dry monsoon season in January to March 1999.

To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need to be made more efficient, adopting measures ranging from reducing the energy costs of sanitation to constructing buildings that waste less energy.

«Yet, indoor air pollution can lead to a range of health problems.»

OARE provides more than 3,200 institutions access to up to 11,000 journals, up to 22,000 e-books, and up to 55 other information resources in a wide range of disciplines contributing to our understanding of the natural environment, including environmental toxicology and pollution, zoology, botany, ecology, environmental chemistry, geology, hydrology, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, geography, environmental economics, environmental law and policy, conservation policy and planning, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, energy, and many other disciplines.

Bounded by mountain ranges to both the east and the west, the valley's geographical and meteorological features combine with industrial activity such as truck traffic to contribute to these high levels of pollution.

«This paper is really showing that long - range transport of pollution is an international issue, in the same way that climate change has become an international issue.»

«In areas ranging from pristine, high - mountain lakes of the United States to ocean waters off the coasts of France and Spain, we've now found evidence of possible human - caused pollution,» says Michael Kent.

We discuss major aspects of this study area, from definitions to pollution types & sources as well as wide - ranging pollution effects.

Whether the impact of coral bleaching is moderate or severe determined by a range of factors, including local sea surface temperature and sea level, as well as nearby human activity, such as pollution.

With the anticipated July 10 launch of NASA's Earth Observing System Aura satellite, environmental scientists here and across the globe are expecting to get the clearest space - based views yet of the sources and movement of air pollution in the earth's lower atmosphere.The spacecraft will carry into orbit a complex package of four high - tech instruments to conduct a wide range of studies of both the upper and lower atmospheres.

White has testified before Congress, briefed top Congressional staff and met with senior White House officials on a wide range of issues, including toxic chemical pollution, water quality, energy policy, food safety and farm bill reform.

A fascinating and informative interview with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.

Environmental Illness A fascinating and informative interview from the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.

SkinCeuticals defines atmospheric aging as the visible result of a range of environmental aggressors on skin, including UV, infrared radiation (IRA), and pollution.

The brand offers a wide range of clothes that all girls want to wear made from recycled fabrics, using resources that produce less pollution and less waste.

Read about ice, steam, snow, drinking water, oceans, water pollution, seawater, rivers the water cycle and much more with our huge range of interesting facts about water.

Battery - powered burnishers Tennant has a range of battery powered walk - behind burnishers that produce high gloss results, without the emissions and noise pollution traditionally associated with burnishing.

Recommending introducing travel plans, and a range of options to reduce air pollution round schools.

When Tesla starts its Tesla Network with autonomous and nearly instant hailing of their driverless cars in late 2018 a family could go zero pollution by buying one or two Ioniq and using the Tesla Network for any additional transportation such as long range trips with lots of luggage.

Three of China's biggest cities are helping consumers pay for a range of electric cars, heeding calls to encourage the sale of green vehicles that the government sees helping tackle pollution.

The latest series of tests conducted by the renowned DEKRA E-Mobility Competence Center were extremely extensive — ranging from how a car might catch fire, how the flames might spread and what would be required to extinguish the fire, to the pollution caused by run - off of the water used for fighting the fire.

• Lower emissions, with better control of NOx and HC throughout the range of engine operating speeds, reducing atmospheric pollution.