Implementing these pollution reduction standards are proven to improve public health, create new jobs, drive technological innovations and transition our nation to a cleaner energy future.
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It's far from certain that pollution in these deeper wells caused the pollution in drinking wells.
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.
Otherwise, if we don't do these things, the air pollution will be terrible and it will create public health problems that will cost far more than the benefits of the automobile.
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These graphs reflect changes in air pollution levels over the years for the components that this study tested.
These factors include high water temperatures, pollution, sedimentation, high light levels, reduced water levels and changes in salinity.
These cores show that the level of pollution, especially soot, in Himalayan glaciers correlates with emissions in Europe and South Asia.
From these simulations, the average impact from soot pollution over the Arctic was about double that found for central Greenland.
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Despite these real concerns over unsustainable abstraction rates and pollution, groundwater resources, if carefully managed, can make a major contribution to meeting the demand for water in the future and to adapting to climate change.
At some point people will take notice of the massive amounts of pollution and waste that is created from these sports leagues and demand that something is done, but why not do it because it is the right thing to do socially as well as economically?
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These were chosen to minimise the confusing effects of background pollution that might be found in more densely populated and highly industrialised areas.
These days, he is preoccupied with such issues as pollution and genetic manipulation: the vanishing dodo in his Dodon't is a comment on DNA disaster.
Yet, while our livelihoods are inseparable from the health of these natural systems, our oceans are under threat from pollution, coastal development, overfishing, and climate change.
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Human activity, however, especially in the form of agriculture, deforestation, hunting and pollution, has inexorably reduced the numbers of these species, leaving many of them teetering on the brink of extinction.
The difference in GFR between these patients and those who lived further away from traffic pollution was comparable to a reduction in GFR associated with being four years older, the researchers say.
These arguments center largely around the idea that current air pollution regulation is good enough as-is, and that any further restrictions are aimed at tackling environmental issues and climate change, both typically seen as luxuries in a down economy.
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"We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems, " said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association.
These measurements were then correlated with data on fine particulate air pollution.
But each of these fossil fuels that we use have some problems, particularly with pollution.
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Among these virtues: cutting down on traffic congestion and commuter-generated pollution.
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It also says these same bioluminescence techniques could be used as a diagnostic indicator of pollution levels or even as a biosensor for monitoring diseases like diabetes.
Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.
We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).
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These folk become both victims and perpetrators of the sacred river's pollution.
The coalition of NGOs, according to Ma Jun, has made it clear to the government that these organisations are keen to assist in its efforts to control heavy-metal pollution.
These are SPINdexes, not indexes, and they are spreading a type of index pollution that one should avoid.
These regions share certain over-arching characteristics such as crime levels, resources and pollution.
Ferretti argued emissions trading allows companies such as these to make money on "hidden assets, " such as efforts to reduce pollution.
We then ranked these areas equally based on number of per capita fatal car accidents, amount of particle pollution and length of travel delays.
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