Sentences with phrase «toxic pollution»

Industry has asked it to overturn the very regulation that, under Section 112, puts controls on mercury and other toxic pollution from power plants..

First, as scientists learned a couple years ago, toxic pollution in the water can kill them.

Such toxic pollution gets into fish and people who swim in these waterways.

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

Did you know that, for decades, power plants have been allowed to dump toxic pollution into our nation's waterways, with almost no limits?

If chemicals were used to dissolve the methane, given the quantities implied, wouldn't there be a massive toxic pollution issue?

Often times you have to go into dangerous areas to get them as well, with either fierce animals or toxic pollution slowly ticking away at your health.

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

The new clinical results can truly impact what is believed to be an epidemic of toxic pollution of the body with heavy metals.»

In a memo to fellow House Republicans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R - VA) laid out an aggressive schedule for a series of bills that would indefinitely block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from moving ahead with safeguards to reduce toxic pollution from our air and water.

A new fight is simmering over General Electric's legacy of toxic pollution as the company seeks to close the books on a $ 1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River.

There, she worked to reconcile environmental and economic challenges, supporting entrepreneurial policies to address climate change, provide more information about toxic pollution to affected communities, restore ecosystems including the Florida Everglades, and add new environmental protections to trade agreements.

The researchers estimate that more than 3.5 million people suffer from mercury - related health effects as a result of such artisanal gold mining, making it the world's worst toxic pollution problem in terms of number of people affected.

«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.

The price of gold affects more than global finances; it also drives the world's most toxic pollution problem, according to new research from the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental health group based in New York City.

Spiders living along riverbanks, such as this long - jawed spider, can act as sentinels for toxic pollution.

Indigenous people who are opposed to unchecked tar sands development and many report illnesses caused by toxic pollution from the largest industrial development on the planet.

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.

A substantial and growing body of scientific evidence has linked airborne toxic pollution from motor vehicles, trains and aircraft to significant health problems, especially in children, including aggravated asthma, chronic bronchitis, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, heart attack and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.

Russia, China and India contain the most areas where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects

Such toxic pollution threatens the health of more than 200 million people, and industrial pollutants, led by lead — acid battery recycling, affect the health of more people than malaria globally, according to Blacksmith's calculations.

Improper disposal of e-waste has led to some of the world's most toxic pollution hotspots.

And while Michael Burger of the Sabin Center is reluctant to predict future lawsuits, he does see the potential for more hurricane - related litigation, particularly around facilities leaking toxic pollution.

It found trees removed 90.41 tons of toxic pollution per year from the area, which translated into the avoidance of just two deaths and two hospital admissions — a very modest improvement compared with the scale of the problem.

If embattled Dems properly publicize the fact that they've just saved a lot of lives by upholding anti-pollution laws, bringing the words mercury and toxic pollution front and center, they win this one.

-- Of the coal plants surveyed, 71 are discharging toxic pollution into rivers, lakes, streams, and bays that already have been declared impaired because of poor water quality.

Earthjustice is protecting national air quality and defending impacted communities from toxic pollution because we all have a right to breathe clean, healthy air.

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.

Seventeen years of Earthjustice litigation led to the first ever mercury and toxic pollution standards for new and existing coal - fired power plants.

Throwing away old computers into our environment will cause tremendous toxic pollution, a danger for all life on earth, for human as well as animal life.

Effective air pollution limits could save more than 20,000 lives every year, yet some national governments are threatening to veto EU measures to tackle toxic pollution.

Members of Congress who consider blocking toxic pollution safeguards should understand that this literally will cost American children and families their health and lives.»

For a start, not once did the program suggest that humans were causing global warming, although we definitely are responsible for some of the other evils afflicting Arctic populations, including toxic pollution and habitat loss, and we may be contributing, slightly, to warming that would otherwise be occurring anyway.

By limiting the amount of toxic pollution industry can pump into our lungs, we helped save thousands of American lives.»

The Danskammer Plant, located along the shore of the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh, New York, has been responsible for more toxic pollution than nearly all of the total 646 industrial sites in the state and numerous violations of federal air quality standards.

Now we tend, particularly in this country, to put caring about the environment in terms of the simple process of reducing toxic pollution and making sure that we don't get melanoma from too much sunlight.

The list includes locations suffering from toxic pollution as a result of everything from e-waste to chemical weapons

The government fired Dr David Swan for daring to speak out about toxic pollution.

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.

We owe it to our children, and their children, to phase out lead paints and other sources of toxic pollution with greater resolve.

Or stopping the EPA from calling out power plants that are illegally emitting too much toxic pollution.

Improvements have been helped by local people in China or India convincing central governments to listen to their concerns about such toxic pollution.

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.

The case follows our victory at the Supreme Court last year and a failure by ministers to take adequate action to clean up the UK's toxic pollution problem.

Toxic pollution like heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POP) produce free radicals in the body, inciting DNA damage, overactive immune responses, inflammation, and diseases like cancer.

They want to block or overturn rules that allow companies to spew ginormous amounts of toxic pollution into the air.

«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.»

I served as the director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the U.S. EPA and, beginning in 2000, under President Clinton, we implemented a set of historic regulations to nearly zero - out the toxic pollution from diesel engines, starting with the 2007 model year engines.