• The solutions have potentially huge cascading effects: Obviously, a more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure leads to fewer cars and less environmental pollution, but it also creates more opportunities for physical activity and socialization and, therefore, healthier and happier populations.

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  • For once, we believed that we would have what Hastings needed - and still needs - so badly, an infrastructure that would enhance people's lives and livelihoods, reduce environmental pollution and improve the health of those thousands of people who live on the A259 trunk road.

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  • The company has been working closely with Val Cameron, the island's shadow water regulator and director of environmental health and pollution, to put together the case.

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  • Axeon has worked closely with Jaguar Land Rover South Africa to produce an all-electric version of its iconic Defender model for use in game parks, minimising both environmental and noise pollution.

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  • Opponents in the UK and the United States, where it is widespread, say it can cause environmental pollution and sickness in local populations.

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  • These "environmental sensor stations" would use the phone network to offer real-time and hyper-local records of the city's rain levels, pollution and other environmental conditions.

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  • Total, more than 200 different natural resource exploitation projects are currently being targeted by protesters, who complain about environmental damage and water pollution.

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  • Because when you educate a girl you educate a family, reduce over-population, reduce disease, reduce pollution and environmental impact, reduce terrorism and a whole host of other world problems.

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  • "The cost of renewable energy is up front slightly higher than conventional, but when you implement full infrastructure cost and the cost of environmental pollution you end up being the same or higher, " said McNeilly.

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  • The environment has moved to the top of their political agenda, and they have promised increased environmental investment, set impressive targets for reducing pollution and launched grand-scale campaigns to address particularly challenging problems of environmental degradation.

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  • And we will continue to make sure that all is being done to plug the leak and to deal with the environmental and economic consequences of what that pollution has caused.

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  • It is a future where we must strengthen our collaboration on critical environmental issues: cleaning up our air, land and water, fighting for environmental justice to relieve the burdens of pollution in poor and minority communities, protecting the planet we all call home and safeguarding the creation that has been given to us to steward.

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  • The region faces a number of problems including a lack of economic development, environmental pollution, and military conflicts.

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  • Occidental Petroleum, for example, is involved in a major human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit regarding the pollution of indigenous land and the Amazon River.

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  • Sir John is a former head of the UK Meteorological Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and co-chaired one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups.

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  • Examples of preventive conservation are: appropriate measures and actions for registration, storage, handling, packing and transportation, security, environmental management (light, humidity, pollution and pest control), emergency planning, education of staff, public awareness, legal compliance (source: ICOM-CC definition).

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  • The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.

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  • "If we only rely on domestic resources to develop the animal-husbandry industry, China's grain production will face challenges, and there will be more serious environmental pollution problems, " Mr. Li said.

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  • "The toxic chemicals have caused many environmental emergencies linked to water and air pollution, " it said.

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  • It also provides environmental data, like noise and pollution levels.

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  • "Old water can be, unlike old beer, very fresh and clean, as it was infiltrated before environmental pollution was an issue, " Quinger told the newspaper.

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  • President Obama saw an important opportunity for the Federal Government to lead by example when he issued Executive Order 13514 directing agencies to meet ambitious sustainability goals in our operations that will improve the government's environmental, energy and economic performance, reduce pollution, and save taxpayer dollars in avoided energy costs.

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  • Irresponsible industrial practices have wrought terrible environmental abuses in forms of air, land and water pollution.

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  • The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.

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  • But they also voiced frustration that their communities are still suffering from the impacts of decades of pollution, and pledged to keep pressing until they see environmental justice achieved.

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  • In these cases, pollution or environmental destruction is the result of an unnatural and reductionist vision which at times leads to a genuine contempt for man.

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  • The company was hired, for example, by National Geographic to see how it could improve its environmental impact, and won an award for helping set new standards on pollution and sustainable growth for the Port of Los Angeles.

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  • Michael K. Dorsey, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth and coauthor of Carbon Trading, says that while pollution-trading programs work in the U.S. to control pollutants like sulfur dioxide, it will be hard to track such schemes in developing nations.

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  • Michael K. Dorsey, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth and coauthor of Carbon Trading, says that while pollution trading programs work in the U.S. to control pollutants like sulfur dioxide, it will be hard to track such schemes in developing nations.

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  • The NRDA process, authorized by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, only funds environmental-restoration projects and uses scientific research to assess spill damage and decide how to fix it.

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