Sentences with phrase «where coal pollution»

Things are so bad that a recent study found that life expectancy was about 5.5 years shorter in the parts of the country where coal pollution is more concentrated.

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And much of the country's so - called war on pollution is centred on coal where the change in direction is just as startling.

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

Although favourable in many parts of North America, electric vehicles in China, where 77 % of the total electricity production is coal - derived and many plants do not have advanced air pollution controls, raise concerns regarding increased air...

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

There are about 200 sites nationwide where coal ash pollution has tainted air and water.

By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

In Krakow, Poland, where the study took place, as in many areas worldwide, coal burning is an important air pollution source.

The report by the Mumbai - based Conservation Action Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.

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.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

The Sierra Club threw its full weight behind a fear - mongering campaign in Ohio where elected officials sought nuclear energy as a way to reduce deadly coal pollution.

This data has already allowed outside organizations and research institutions to directly link MTR to downstream water pollution and related environmental destruction, as well as provide input into numerous health studies and predict where coal companies might go next.

4) Coal, from the USA perspective, is a readily available low cost source of energy, especially well suited for large power generation units, where flue gas can be cleaned up efficiently, avoiding real pollution.

She divides her time between her home in Johannesburg and the Earthlife satellite office in the Limpopo province, where pollution from power stations and coal mines has contaminated local communities to such an extent that farmers can no longer safely grow crops.

We wanted to get the word out and build momentum for the Road to Paris in a country where rising heat is becoming deadly and researchers find that pollution from coal power plants is chopping over three years off the average citizen's lifespan, but «climate change» is hardly in the popular lexicon.

My first job was at Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, where I worked on pollution from burning coal for heating and cooking.

That's because the bill gives utilities a financial incentive to keep burning coal by joining the cap - and - trade system — a kind of marketplace where polluters could reduce their emissions on paper by buying pollution reductions created by others.

However, in India and China a lot of coal and biomass is burned in domestic settings where inefficient low - temperature combustion and a lack of pollution controls mean that the mix of emissions is much more complicated — carbon dioxide, of course, but also large amounts of carbon monoxide, black carbon and sulphates.

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].

Despite patriotic advertising claims of «American energy,» coal is being exported to Asia to be burned for electricity, where governments don't have strong pollution regulations to protect the health of their people.

Jeff Holmstead's sabotage of the rulemaking process at EPA has caused eight years of delay, delay where Americans have continued to suffer from the impacts of pollution from coal fired power plants.

The devastating health effects of coal pollution have been well documented — and in an era where cleaner alternatives are readily available, there's absolutely no reason that a coal plant built in 1902 (like this one was) should continue to operate in modern day Chicago.