Sentences with phrase «year by its air pollution»

It would be well worth paying higher prices for clean energy, but the fact is that renewable energy is similar in cost to filthy coal - fired energy (which, by the way, kills millions of people world - wide each year by its air pollution).

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Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.

Citizens in major Indian cities can see their life expectancy drop by two years amid environmental problems like air pollution, but HTT can help resolve that, Gresta said.

Air pollution contributes to thousands of deaths across the country every year, but government promises to tackle the problem are failing, according to a new report by the environmental audit committee (EAC).

According to the Campaign for Clean Air London had already registered 35 days of dangerous pollution levels by mid-April, exceeding its calendar - year limit.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

With cooperative weather, the air can be cleaner, as proven by an experiment last year in which 1.3 million cars in the city were banned from driving and pollution levels dropped by 6,400 tons (5,800 metric tons), according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection.

For almost 100 years, Science News has been reporting the latest advances in science, such as this week's cover story by reporter Laurel Hamers, «When bogs burn, the environment takes a hit,» on how the increased frequency of bog fires worldwide is becoming a surprisingly large source of air pollution and climate - warming carbon dioxide.

An international study published in July showed that air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north.

Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter air pollution, about 12 percent were related to pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.

Professor Robert F. Storey, corresponding author of the paper, said: «More than 3 million deaths worldwide are caused by air pollution each year.

The researchers were able to link air pollution levels estimated at each person's house with two ultrasound measurements of the blood vessels, separated by about three years.

Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is estimated to send more than 200 people to the emergency room with pneumonia each year, according to a study by University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

The UI researchers analyzed air quality and pollution data compiled by state and county agencies over nearly three years at five sites spread statewide — urban areas Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Des Moines and rural locations in Montgomery county in southwest Iowa and Van Buren county in the southeast.

It is estimated that the country is losing some 8 percent of its wealth each year to pollution, with the toll including everything from crops destroyed by acid rain to spiraling health costs due to poor air and water quality.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

The new clean air policy package is estimated to avoid an extra 58,000 premature deaths, protect an extra 123,000 km2 of ecosystems from nitrogen pollution (more than half the area of Romania), and save 19 000 km2 forests from acidification by the year 2030.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

At least twice in the past 12 years, cities like Los Angeles and San Diego were forced to deal with Beijing - level air pollution caused by southern California wildfires.

Results: Over the past 50 years, air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall by 23 percent, a team led by a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist has found.

In China, scientists estimate air pollution reduces average life expectancy by more than three years, but that this could be halved with stringent climate mitigation.

About six million deaths occur every year due to air pollution, noted a new report released by the World Health Organization on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

October 9, 2017 What soot covered, hundred - year - old birds can tell us about saving the environment A unique study by UChicago grad students shows that discoloration of birds in museum collections can be used to trace the history of air pollution.

«Perhaps it is not surprising that profit margins take precedence over public health, but with transport emissions the main contributor to urban air pollution, resulting in nearly 10,000 early deaths a year in London alone and hugely decreasing quality of life for children, the elderly and those with pre-existing health complaints, the public should be utterly outraged by this news.»

A recent report by the US Environmental Protection Agency... found that cutting pollution through the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 premature deaths in 2010 as well as over 1.7 million asthma attacks last year — benefits that would be lost if these politically motivated bills and amendments were to pass.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

In recent years, Houston has found ways to reduce air pollution, in part by zeroing in on chemical plant emissions.

Usually it's not the only cause, but air pollution is a factor in at least 30,000 deaths each year in the UK, although scientists are struggling to disentangle the damage caused by nitrogen dioxide from that caused by particulates, or soot.

With air pollution causing more than one million deaths in 2015 and reducing the lifespan of citizens in northern China by three years, clean energy has become a top priority for China's leaders.

Household air pollution from these sources is currently linked to 2.8 million premature deaths per year, and several billion hours are spent collecting firewood for cooking, mostly by women, that could be put to more productive uses.

By 2020, China has pledged to cut air pollution emissions from coal - fired power plants by 60 %, saving around 180m tonnes of CO2 each year in the procesBy 2020, China has pledged to cut air pollution emissions from coal - fired power plants by 60 %, saving around 180m tonnes of CO2 each year in the procesby 60 %, saving around 180m tonnes of CO2 each year in the process.

Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions by displacing fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives by reducing the air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.

Taiwan is one of the 10 worst countries in terms of the percentage of its citizens who are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution, according to an international study published by Yale University last year.

In February 2015, the EPA responded to similar attacks on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

A new study shows that air pollution from coal - burning home heating systems has shortened life expectancy in northern China by 5.5 years.

on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

A study published in the journal Nature in September last year showed that outdoor air pollution is linked with 3.3 million premature deaths per year, which is more than those caused by AIDS and malaria making it the world's biggest single killer.

Air pollution has grown by 8 percent worldwide over the past five years.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costair pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costAir Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

The World Health Organization estimates that millions die each year just from air pollution caused by the use of pre-modern energy sources in people's homes, such as open fires for cooking or heating.

- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants - Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known Clean air is vital for good health.

The problem has grown worse over the last five years due to the high levels of pollution and poor air quality in the city, created by [continue reading...]

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.

Air pollution is already reducing life expectancy in northern China by five and a half years, and in India (whose capital, New Delhi, has the worst air pollution of any large city in the world) by 3.2 yeaAir pollution is already reducing life expectancy in northern China by five and a half years, and in India (whose capital, New Delhi, has the worst air pollution of any large city in the world) by 3.2 yeaair pollution of any large city in the world) by 3.2 years.

-- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution — Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants — Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known

In fact, according to a 2013 study in The Lancet, roughly 3.5 million people, mostly women and children, die every year from respiratory illness as a result of indoor air pollution created by wood and other biomass stoves.

For years, the chief opponent of global warming evidence has been the conservative - libertarian Heartland Institute in Chicago, which endlessly issues «scientific» papers questioning any global increase in temperatures, or doubting that such increase is caused by human air pollution.