Sentences with phrase «talked about the air pollution»

For the purposes of this article, I'm talking about air pollution.

When I interviewed Solis a few years ago for the Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, she talked about the air pollution and toxic - waste problems that have plagued her neighborhood for decades; the myth that minorities don't care about the environment; the efforts of her immigrant father — a union shop steward in Mexico — to get safety equipment for his coworkers; and her own push to create parkland in her largely Hispanic and Asian working - class Southern California district.

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But only 19 percent said they talk to their pregnant patients about pesticides and only 12 percent discuss air pollution.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

At a session on building healthy communities at the recent South by Southwest Eco conference, I talked with Howard K. Koh, the assistant secretary of health, and Bob Perciasepe, the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, about the challenge of conveying the enormous costs — in shortened and impaired lives — of air pollution when that toll is only measurable through statistical analysis.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

I'm talking about deforestation (particularly south america), diverted waterways (everywhere), building on protective marshlands and coasts (i.e. New Orleans), pollution, (air & water), non biodegradable waste (nuclear or even just plastics), etc, etc..