The number of days
with dangerous pollution levels have dropped to about 50 a year, down from 160 at the height of Lafarge's operations.
Not exact matches
Some observers say we are faced
with a mental
pollution that is as
dangerous as our physical
pollution.
They protect all Americans, especially the 6 million US children
with asthma, from
dangerous air
pollution.
In November, Paul Francis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary for health and human services, requested a call
with EPA officials who had raised concerns that the water
pollution was at a
dangerous level, the newly obtained records show.
The fog mingled
with high
pollution was an extreme event «when the air quality goes from very poor to
dangerous,» said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
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.
A recent video by Earthworks paired infrared footage
with resident interviews, and calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set national standards to curb this
dangerous air
pollution.
You've been told that our air is being filled
with «
dangerous carbon
pollution.»
It is, in reality, an extremely
dangerous and seductive term that obscures the very real
pollution that would occur even
with «clean coal» electricity production.
The Guardian: Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog on Thursday as the capital suffered the season's first wave of extremely
dangerous pollution,
with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered safe.
In some eastern cities including Shanghai, levels were off the index that tracks
dangerous pollution,
with schools closing and flights being cancelled or diverted.
Many sources of waste biomass are mixed
with recyclable materials and potentially
dangerous contaminants; sorting and
pollution control technologies are needed to ensure it is used in an environmentally friendly manner.
My testimony, along
with the statements of over 1,600 individuals at public hearings across the nation, translated into a proposed rule that would limit
dangerous carbon
pollution for the first time, the Clean Power Plan.
It's not hyperbolic to say that these emissions are killing people — but
with a relatively minimal investment from utilities, we could clean up this
dangerous pollution.
In addition to increasing poverty in underdeveloped countries, the ruination of the environment is
dangerous for the world at large: greenhouse gases, water
pollution, and rising sea levels are just a few of the monsters that are growing
with total disregard to national borders.