Sentences with phrase «toxic coal pollution»

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

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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

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issCoal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other isscoal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

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.

In babies born pre-closure, researchers found higher levels of PAH - DNA cord adducts, a biomarker for exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a toxic component of air pollution from coal plants.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

Coal itself is a WMD especially in China where millions are sick from the direct pollution and here in the USA it might be true that much toxic exposure has been caused, besides the CO2 output that is enormous.

In case you ever wanted to see just how bad coal - fired pollution can get, the folks over at VBS.tv have produced Toxic Linfen, a six - part documentary which may redefine your idea of pea - soup toxic fog and how far China has to go to clean up its eToxic Linfen, a six - part documentary which may redefine your idea of pea - soup toxic fog and how far China has to go to clean up its etoxic fog and how far China has to go to clean up its energy

More on pollution problems for the north Native Cultures Endangered By Climate Change Inuit Kids March in Streets to Protest Pebble Bay Mine in Alaska Coal's Toxic Legacy Revealed in Greenland Ice Core Is it Time to Bid Greenland Farewell?

Yesterday, six Senate Republicans joined with most of the Democrats to defeat a bill that would have blocked new federal rules limiting coal plants» mercury pollution and toxic emissions.

Coal plants are now by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

Earthjustice's landmark court victory, which put in motion strict new limits on toxic air pollution from coal - fired power plants, drives the retirement of many dirty plants and a shift to cleaner power.

«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic pollution from coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries combined.»

The report says coal - fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

Burning coal is a major cause of climate change and releases toxic pollution that threatens our air and water.

The Governor said that coal exports could clog barge and train routes, increase diesel and coal dust pollution and boost amounts of toxic mercury drifting back to Oregon when Asian countries burn the coal.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

Since 1982, little has changed about the toxic pollution coal - fired power plants are allowed to dump in water, although change was on its way.

Unfortunately, if EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has his way, our waterways and our health will remain threatened by our nation's leading source of toxic water pollution — coal fired power plants.

Shutting down coal plants because of their appalling toxic pollution is just as desirable as shutting them down because of their damaging GHG emissions.

The MATS rule, finalized in December 2011, requires coal - fired power plants to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants through the installation of pollution -LSB-...]

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

[1] When coal is mined and used to generate power, external costs include the impacts of water pollution, toxic coal waste, air pollution, and the long - term damage to ecosystems and human health.

The pollution from mining and the toxic chemicals used in the preparation of coal for market have been linked to rising asthma rates and other serious respiratory ailments, particularly among children, including Bonds» grandson.

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.

The withdrawal of the clean power plan is the latest in a series of moves by Trump and Pruitt to dismantle Obama's legacy on fighting climate change, including the delay or roll back of rules limiting levels of toxic pollution in chimney emissions and waste water discharges from coal - burning power plants.

For example, your home's electricity might seem clean because the air pollution is actually at the coal - fired power plant and not in your neighborhood, or the cheap single - use products that depend on horrible or toxic working conditions in another country, as well as the relatively cost - free (to the manufacturer and seller) disposal of those products.

Be it asthma or heart disease from air pollution, or mercury poisoning due to toxic emissions, there's no question that Big Oil and Big Coal are affecting our health.

Bear in mind that this listing factors in toxic air pollution — from coal and oil - fired power plants primarily — not dumped waste or contaminated land or such.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

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.»