Boosting energy-efficiency and the use of renewables not only helps secure energy supplies and cuts local pollution, but also helps keep carbon emissions in check too.
But most objections focus on local pollution.
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In both countries water and sewerage systems need to be vastly expanded, and governments in both countries are also coming under intense public pressure to curb what are often appalling levels of local pollution from factories and power plants.
The EU Climate Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said climate policies would cut local pollution, reduce dependency on fossil fuel imports, improve resource efficiency, save money on energy and even make people fitter if they left their cars at home and cycled to work.
We will use your results to build up a map of local air pollution across England.
The laws achieve low-carbon growth, greater energy security and a reduction in greenhouse gases and local air pollution.
The country also has an impressive local air pollution problem that it is looking to renewables to help solve.
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Media coverage of local industrial pollution problems is encouraged by the government of China, to show that they care about the environment.
He said impacts on water and local air pollution were already covered by the UK's existing "stringent" rules on oil and gas.
The Commission will need to ensure that the move towards diesel vehicles to improve efficiency does not lead to increased local air pollution from particulates.
In big cities, especially those in fast-developing countries in Asia and Latin America, gridlocked traffic is responsible for health-threatening levels of local air pollution.
That is because cars produce local air pollution, which damages human health and the environment, and also produce greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.
At the time, he cited findings from a Shanghai testing firm that determined that Johnson Controls had abided by local laws and wasn't the source of the local lead pollution.
Modern industrial societies have proved that--with willpower, innovation and capital--they are good at mitigating local and regional pollution.
At regional and local levels, it is important to reduce other environmental stressors such as local sources of pollution into the ocean.
The Taj Mahal's glistening marble was threatened by pollution from local foundries, oil refineries and city traffic.
It will streamline and simplify both the legislative framework and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's regulation of activities which cause pollution at a local and national level.
Many environmental groups, of course, see the shale gas boom unleashed by hydrofracking and horizontal drilling technologies as more a curse than a blessing, producing contaminated water supplies and air pollution while scaring local landscapes.
It has slashed local energy demand, reducing chronic pollution and leaving more oil for export.
Opponents in the UK and the United States, where it is widespread, say it can cause environmental pollution and sickness in local populations.
The Pentagon's ultimate goal of creating a single network of sensors may also benefit state and local programs designed to monitor air pollution, noxious fumes and municipal water supplies, the report stated.
Following the heavy pollution of the beach, the local population of this starfish fell from more than a hundred and fifty to just thirteen, pushing this particular colony to the edge of extinction.
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Water is a more serious problem, both because a lot of it is needed to frack wells and because local groundwater is seen to be at risk of pollution.
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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.
According to Kim, pollution is one of the primary concerns on the local level.
To get through the application process local astronomers conducted a survey to assess the levels of light pollution, and lighting engineers audited the existing external lighting in the national park.
Craig told me that the skin infections and gastrointestinal problems attributed by the plaintiffs to oil pollution were more likely caused by sewer lines that run into local streams and rivers.
Local authorities have recently forbidden bathing and nautical activities due to dangerously high levels of pollution.
As hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has boomed in recent years, so too have the ranks of local activists, spurred by the new noise, air, traffic, and water pollution in their backyards.
Environment Agency officials have been looking at sources of pollution at Llangrannog, including visiting farm, s and are now concentrating on local sewage systems.
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