We've made some seriously impressive progress in
reducing the air pollution caused by cars, but we've still a ways to go.
The American Lung Association supports measures to significantly
reduce the air pollution caused by cars, trucks, and other mobile sources.
In an effort to address global warming, the bike program endorses the provision of transportation choices to
reduce air pollution caused by automobile trips.
Not exact matches
Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse;
reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of
reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately
reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease -
causing air pollution that is its byproduct).
The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to
reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is
causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.
«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.
Despite debate over how many «deaths»
air pollution causes, it is clear bad
air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on
reducing it must be resisted
Automobile emissions control covers all the technologies that are employed to
reduce the
air pollution -
causing emissions produced by automobiles.
This is known to
cause premature death, and policies that aim to
reduce our consumption of fossil fuels often cite the potential health benefits — and related cost savings — linked to
reducing air pollution.
In most affluent regions of the world,
air pollution is regulated to
reduce the risk to human health and natural ecosystems
caused by these airborne toxins.
The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that inhalation of diesel exhaust
caused changes in the heart's electrical activity, suggesting that
air pollution reduces the amount of oxygen available to the heart during exercise.
This is a pretty intuitive result, but it's a very good think to have solid studies of this kind to help convince politicians and the general public that
reducing air pollution can have all kinds of benefits, including some that they might never have thought about (not many parents will realize that their kid's illness might have been
caused, or made worse, by
air pollutants).
In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically
reduces the burning of fuel wood and waste that
causes enormous indoor
air pollution in developing nations.
With
air pollution causing more than one million deaths in 2015 and
reducing the lifespan of citizens in northern China by three years, clean energy has become a top priority for China's leaders.
... Cutting local
air pollution from, say coal, can also
reduce carbon emissions that
cause warming.»
Denser, greener cities have lower transport costs and
reduced health bills, especially for illnesses
caused by
air pollution.
Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by
reducing air and water
pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that
cause global warming.
«Suspends
air pollution control laws requiring major polluters to report and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions that
cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»
«Suspends implementation of
air pollution control law (AB 32) requiring major sources of emissions to report and
reduce greenhouse gas emissions that
cause global warming, until unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent or less for full year.»
By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically
reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden
caused by
air pollution and climate change.
As mentioned elsewere in this page and site, a renewable energy installation such as a wind farm or solar farm will
reduce the damage
caused by climate change; it will
reduce the amount of
air pollution resulting from the burning of coal; it will therefore be to the advantage of all life on Earth.
If India
reduces air pollution significantly, the savings from health costs would be many times the amount it spends on
reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that are
causing climate change
Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to
reduce the number of global deaths
caused by indoor
air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.
Because they use less energy, ENERGY STAR certified products
reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases
caused by burning fossil fuels.
It will
reduce the number of serious illnesses and deaths
caused by
air pollution from coal - fired power stations.