Coal waste mountains exposed to air started churning out acidic water, polluting groundwater and streams.
The rain and river water in the city state's reservoirs is being mixed with recycled waste-water from air-conditioners, sinks and toilets.
Environmental crises surround us: global warming, hazardous waste, resource depletion, air pollution and many more.
For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.
But while these are warning signs, it is not clear that the harm in absolute numbers will be great even if the worst should happen and significant amounts of radioactive waste are spewed into the air or the ground.
The remaining 52 units would become low-temperature heat, usually disposed of as waste into adjacent rivers or the air.
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Broad Group, a Chinese maker of air conditioners, taps the waste heat from buildings to power its machines.
Sanergy employees empty the toilets each day, taking an air-tight container of waste to a Sanergy processing facility where it is converted to biogas and fertilizer that Sanergy plans to sell to commercial and small farmers.
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But the deeper lines are trickier: space is so tight that there is nowhere for waste heat to go, which makes traditional air-conditioning impossible.
This waste produces pollution on land, sea and air and is not always visible - it needs to be reduced not just PICKED UP.
Now, companies with plants that use or produce chemicals on the list have to complete a long form (one form per chemical, per plant), which tells exactly how much of the chemical is used or produced and where it is going (air, water, recycling, waste treatment).
Last year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decided that the link between air-borne dioxin (an ingredient in Agent Orange, and also a common air-borne pollutant emitted by waste incineration, some chemical manufacturing processes, cars and trucks, and other industrial sources that burn fuel) and diabetes was so strong, it compensated 270, 000 veterans for diabetes linked to dioxin exposure.
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There have been documented cases of leaking gas ruining nearby well water, of air pollution and of problems from the waste the drilling generates.
It faces a class-action lawsuit related to the Triumph's last cruise, when passengers reported that food was scarce, cruise goers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning, toilets overflowed and human waste ran down the walls in some parts of the ship.
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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Cox said Gore helped strengthen clean air health standards, sped clean up of Superfund toxic waste sites, reduced automobile tailpipe pollution, and protected America's spectacular landscapes.
Energy operators also must meet with homeowners and others who live within 1, 000 feet of their proposed projects to listen to their concerns, not use open pits to store drilling waste and ensure their venting system is closed to prevent sending methane into the air.
Industrial waste, much of it toxic, litters the landscape, poisoning the soil, water and air.
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At the cathode, the protons and the electrons react with oxygen from the air to make water which, to the joy of environmentalists, is the only waste product of such a cell.
The collector also promises to do more with sunlight once it's trapped: since the microchannels should absorb more than half of the waste heat, their hot water byproduct can either be filtered into drinkable water or converted into air conditioning.
They are careful not to waste their bullets, as rebel fighters in Libya often did, firing feux-de-joie into the air.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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