Sentences with phrase «toxic air pollution by»

You can protect other communities from toxic air pollution by joining Destiny and to demand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop subsidizing trash - burning incinerators.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The air was so toxic, with pollution produced by Arsene Wenger and his men.

Janeway also objected to a policy rider that would restrict disclosure of toxic and hazardous air pollution, including ammonia or hydrogen sulfide, released by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in rural communities.

«Melting snow contains a toxic cocktail of pollutants: Air pollution from cars affected by freezing temperatures and snow.»

Lighter and denser than wood, charcoal burns longer and produces fewer toxic emissions, reducing indoor air pollution by up to 90 percent.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

Every day your face is bombarded by air pollution, sunlight, toxic chemicals in cosmetics, and also free radicals inside your body.

The pollution and poverty index is a ranking of each census tract as scored by the CalEnviroScreen (CES 2.0)-- it's a combination of poverty, language isolation, and exposure to toxics in both air and water that was generated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (see oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html for more details).

Sierra Club Canada works to deliver a healthier environment for a healthy population by working to protect both the quantity and quality of our water, reduce and divert waste, ensure the clean up of toxic sites, and fight the sources of pollution affecting air, water, and land.

The Boiler MACT rules, which are required by the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollutiAir Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollutiair pollution.

Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.

But now due to aesthetic and sanitary environmental reasons; driven by increasing populations disposing of ever more; with resultant air and water pollution, and new toxic man made materials and modern commercial industrial chemical cocktails (some with a toxic half life of thousands of years); we now find the need to construct landfills with the contents better contained and separated from the environment.

, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.

It's one of the most polluting energy sources out there, the single largest contributor to global warming, and makes us sick by polluting our air and water with toxic pollution like mercury.

PS I agree that there need to be regulations prohibiting air pollution (i.e. ejecting substances into the atmosphere that are toxic to humans, animals or plants or are known to cause health problems), as requested by a democratically elected legislature or executive branch and their appointed agencies, but that is not «owning» the atmosphere IMO — it is simply «protecting» it, as an asset that is «owned» by everyone collectively.

A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.

When I was in elementary school in the late 1970's, we were taught in all seriousness by our teachers that by the year 2000 we would all need to wear a gas mask in order to step outside — the pollution would be so bad that the air would be toxic!

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.

In a Wall Street Journal op - ed attacking EPA's proposal to limit toxic air pollution from coal - and oil - fired power plants, Willie Soon and Paul Driessen obscure the challenges posed by U.S. mercury emissions, which they say pose «minuscule risks.»

These reports encompass all the pollution categories covered by the site, including (when available) statistics on air and water pollutants, lead poisoning, toxic waste, and animal waste.