Modern forms of pollution are outdoor air pollution, chemical pollution, soil pollution and occupational pollution, all associated with modern industry, modern cities, modern lifestyle.
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Studies have found this relationship between segregation and air pollution, water pollution and even noise pollution.
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"Air pollution is different from water pollution or soil pollution, and it is extremely difficult to get evidence for air pollution crimes because after the pollution is emitted it undergoes a large degree of dispersal, and is very quickly diluted," Yan said.
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It's first (or last) in short-term particle pollution, and second in both year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution.
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But noise pollution, like air pollution, is not distributed equally.
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Tailpipe pollution is a major contributor to harmful air pollution.
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Air pollution hot spots UNICEF said its air pollution report uses satellite imagery to show the global scope of the air pollution problem.
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People are trying to ignore pollution and the damage that pollution does.
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The city did have Air Pollution Control, an early pollution monitoring group.
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Under him, Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act which angled to prevent or reduce pollution whenever possible and in turn spend less on controlling pollution.
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Noise pollution is a serious public health problem according to the World Health Organization, and is a leading cause of pollution shortly after environmental pollution.
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"For the first time, we pulled out and collected in one place all of the information on deaths caused by all forms of pollution combined -- in other words, air pollution, water pollution, chemical pollution, soil pollution, occupational pollution in the workplace -- and put it all together," said Landrigan who is also a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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"This is not traditional pollution that is killing people in these rapidly industrializing lower middle-income countries, it's urban industrial air pollution -- chemical pollution," he said.
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Air pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying new air pollution rules.
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For example, the rule on mercury pollution, or the cross-state pollution rule.
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This could mean reducing water pollution, noise pollution, vessel disturbance, and protecting prey.
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Reality check: Unlike air or water pollution, however, light pollution is easily reversible.
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Other anti-pollution products protect by serving as a barrier to air pollution.
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Pollution-absorbing tiles Air pollution is one of the world's biggest invisible killers.
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It will also take over water pollution from the Ministry of Land & Resources and agricultural related pollution from the Agriculture Ministry and ocean pollution from the SOA.
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Air pollution, including household air pollution, already cause 6.5 million premature deaths each year.
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In terms of environment, researchers evaluated pollution, measuring air, noise and light pollution levels.
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Noise pollution is one of the leading health problems in cities after environmental pollution.
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One issue is the longer lasting impact of carbon pollution versus methane gas pollution.
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Air pollution: We compiled a graphic showing pollution in various cities around the world.
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Related: Thanks to Pollution, Here Are 4,000 Ways to Misread the Hollywood Sign See China's Air Pollution as Robotic Origami Here's a Wearable Prosthetic That Detects Air Pollution
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But making companies pay for their pollution doesn't guarantee how much pollution they will cut.
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Rain lowers levels of air pollution by bringing particulates in pollution down to the ground.
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Why pollution hurts this region The continent is particularly sensitive to the effects of pollution.
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Increasingly, researchers are also finding that indoor air pollution contributes significantly to outdoor air pollution.
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Connecting water pollution or air pollution with food choices is even more of a stretch.
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Local pollution levels can be measured according to amounts of ozone in the atmosphere, number of days with extremely high particle pollution levels, or levels of year-round particle pollution.
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The World Health Organization describes air pollution as a "public health emergency," causing 3 million deaths a year from outdoor pollution and 6 million deaths from indoor pollution in 2016.
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Pollution Almost one in six deaths on this planet is related in some way to pollution.
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The air pollution is beyond acceptable limits, and don't even mention the pollution of the canals.
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As incomes rise, the amount of pollution produced increases, but beyond a certain threshold of income, the pollution decreases again as pollution control technologies are deployed and governance structures are implemented.
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The report, which covers the period 2015-2017, breaks down pollution using three different measurements: days of unhealthy ozone, or smog; days of unhealthy particle pollution, or soot; and annual particle pollution.
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Particulate matter pollution seemed to put the women at the greatest risk among miscarriages linked to pollution.
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Another 679.9 billion yuan has been spent in targeting pollution issues, such as air pollution prevention projects.
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But the degree to which air pollution can offset carbon pollution has never been quantified, until now.
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Yes, you read that right: Trump's pollution rule might produce more pollution than no rule at all.
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No signs of pollution, official says In the meantime, "pollution mitigation efforts" are underway, according to Cmdr.
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Air pollution is the real cause of lung cancer Air pollution is unequivocally a major health risk.
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Death by pollution: Delhi's fight for clean air Global air pollution also rose 8% from 2008 to 2013.
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Harris County residents should contact Harris County Pollution Control Services at 713-920-7771 to report pollution concerns.
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Wednesday's report, the organization's 20th, looks at data on particle pollution and ozone pollution from 2015 to 2017.
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As with Cape Wind, opponents feel they are trading environmentally-destructive carbon pollution for economically-destructive visual pollution.
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Vietnam wants to meet that demand with less air pollution, he said, citing Thailand's own problems with pollution.
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Kioumourtzoglou's research has found that current air pollution measuring methods tend to understate the effects of air pollution.
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported 234 million premature deaths stemming from air pollution in 2000.
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Pollution as a deterrent: The study found that air pollution in these national parks seems to deter visitors.
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"In many Latin American cities, there's terrible pollution and that pollution is worse in poorer areas," Murray said.
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California Nearly all of the premature air pollution deaths (98%) were caused by pollution originating within state borders.
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Pollution affects my entire community, not just me, and climate change is making air pollution a lot worse.
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For example, local pollution benefits are greater on the East Coast, where such pollution is a bigger problem.
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For Africa as a whole, the estimated economic cost of premature air pollution deaths in 403 was roughly $215bn (£175bn) a year for outdoor air pollution, and $232bn for household, or indoor, air pollution.
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This time, 100 human Londoners will track their daily exposure to air pollution to understand pollution hotspots and patterns.
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Pollution is also linked to low birth weight, but there has been little research to connect pollution to miscarriage.
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Indoor air pollution may be as much or more of a problem as pollution outdoors, according to new research.
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This would not only increase pollution and environmentally harmful production in Britain, but also raise pollution for Britain's neighbors.
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That means the U.S. is exposing people to more pollution before it knows what that pollution is comprised of.
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I've written before about indoor air pollution, which is responsible for about half the world's pollution deaths each year.
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That's why coal plant owners install modern pollution control equipment in ways that achieve multiple, synergistic pollution reduction benefits.
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The level has been declining gradually, but the difficult part is that now it's regional pollution, not city pollution.
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Air pollution is ranked fourth globally as a risk factor for death and pollution mortalities are expected to increase.
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"This is going to require changes in society such as better monitoring of pollution and taking into account the true long-term economic cost of pollution when assessing the cost of measures to reduce environmental pollution."
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Washington had denied a permit for the project last year citing worries about rail safety, air pollution and noise pollution.
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Air pollution levels have soared, rural areas face severe water pollution and food safety continues to be a major concern.
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The ALA report evaluates three types of air pollution: short-term particulate matter, year-long particulate matter, and ozone pollution.
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In China, IBM's Green Horizon project is using AI to forecast air pollution, track pollution sources, and recommend mitigation strategies.
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Airparif, the French capital's air pollution watchdog, said the pollution levels in the city are the worst in a decade.
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Washington had denied a permit for the project last year citing worries about rail safety, air pollution and noise pollution.
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An estimated 920,000 premature deaths resulted from household pollution created by these burning fuels, while outdoor pollution caused another 590,000.
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"We don't create more pollution than other parts of the country, we actually create a lot less pollution," she added.
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For car pollution in particular, small distances can make a big difference in how much pollution is in the air.
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Nearly all of the premature air pollution deaths in California (98%) were caused by pollution originating within state borders. Fla.
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Efforts to address outdoor air pollution have largely focused on relationships between local sources of pollution and local air quality.
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In addition to the threats of tunnels, mortars and missiles, we will also be dealing with the pollution of the sea and beaches, pollution of drinking water and pollution of the water of agriculture in the area.
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Since pollution levels are monitored at the side of the road, one day the wind might blow the pollution away from the monitor and cause the system to reflect a low pollution level, while a change in wind direction the following day could cause the monitor to show that pollution levels had been breached.
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Public health concerns over air pollution have grown and the government has found no source of pollution too small to ignore.
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The best observatories in the world are located on remote mountaintops, high above air pollution and far away from light pollution.
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Air pollution was at least partly responsible for 6.5 million deaths in 2015, while water pollution was linked to 1.8 million.
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The series shows air pollution in China, the industrial aspect of manmade pollution and one of the causes of climate change.
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The EPA found that glider trucks can emit upward of 55 times the pollution of trucks equipped with modern pollution controls.
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In addition to climate, Wehrum would be responsible for overseeing hot-button issues regarding ozone pollution, mercury pollution and related matters.
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Here's what is happening: Air pollution: The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with air pollution rules for the coal industry.
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Though the environmental effects of plastic pollution are not fully understood, plastic pollution has made its way into the food chain.
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Comparing air pollution: Fine particulate matter contributed to 88,000 premature deaths in the U.S. in 2015, and pollution has worsened since.
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The line goes: Well, China's not doing anything about its pollution -- and we all know about its pollution -- so why should we?
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" He adds, "The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act outlines the first comprehensive federal plan to turn off the 'plastic pollution tap.
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"We analyzed air pollution data in Vancouver over the same period to assess air pollution exposures in the pregnant woman," he said.
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Breyer, wrestling with the question, suggested requiring a permit in a case where indirect pollution is the "functional equivalent" of direct pollution.
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Under Wheeler's rule, the EPA has proposed weakening methane pollution limits for oil and gas producers and air pollution limits for cars.
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That will translate to less pollution and less asthma, cancer and other illnesses that our communities suffer because of fossil energy pollution.
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Their case centered on standards like how to protect plants from ozone pollution and what method to use to measure the pollution.
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Traffic intensity in cities means pollution there may be similar in ways to pollution found near a major road outside the ciy.
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Worldwide, pollution is linked to an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015, according to the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.
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Synthetic fibers from clothing "are an enormous plastic pollution problem," said Mr. Sinha, because they are a key contributor to microplastic pollution.
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They shift costs, from the much higher health and social costs of pollution remediation to the comparatively smaller costs of pollution abatement.
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According to data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air pollution can be up to five times worse than air pollution outside, and people undoubtedly want to reduce any possible air pollution where they spend the majority of their time.
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Anti-pollution creams can top $2210 (the jury's still out on how well these work) and there are also expensive "pollution-catching" amulets.
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Air pollution is the single biggest environmental health risk the world faces today, with outdoor pollution linked to 3 million deaths every year.
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Several California cities ranked high on the ALA's air pollution offenders list, with Los Angeles coming in at No. 1 for ozone pollution.
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But a recent study on deep-sea plastic pollution gave this sad bag — representative of the planet's amplifying plastic pollution problem — new life.
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Caused by stresses such as increased water temperatures and pollution, this leaves the skeleton exposed, making it vulnerable to heat, disease and pollution.
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He sued to challenge implementation of Obama's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which attempts to regulate air pollution that drifts across state lines.
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POLLUTION: China's three-year action plan to curb air pollution by 2020 has extended its reach into cities where the problem is worsening.
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Household air pollution resulting from poorly ventilated indoor cook stoves and fecal contamination of drinking water are the major forms of traditional pollution.
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Without data on the levels of pollution being emitted, EPA has no basis to enforce the law prohibiting dangerous levels of air pollution.
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A limit on pollution and a cost to polluters Climate policies must lock in pollution reductions, grow the economy, and protect vulnerable populations.
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It means protecting the Environmental Protection Agency's statutory authority to protect the public from climate pollution and other dangerous sources of air pollution.
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Globally, hundreds of thousands fewer people will die annually from chronic air pollution diseases; millions of children will suffer less pollution-related asthma.
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Any air pollution above the World Health Organization's recommended limit is potentially harmful for children, and risks grow as pollution worsens, UNICEF said.
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The good news is, while exposure to outdoor air pollution is often out of our hands, that's less true of indoor air pollution.
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The good news is, while exposure to outdoor air pollution is often out of our hands, that's less true of indoor air pollution.
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Asian pollution is one or two orders of magnitude greater, and similar studies should be done at that level of pollution, he said.
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A more aggressive mode of balancing the environment and the economy would be a pollution price — a tax or fee to emit pollution.
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Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) introduced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, which aims to address plastic pollution at the source.
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The benefits of decreased air pollution are beginning to become salient in developing countries in India and China, where air pollution is severe.
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While pollution levels and lung cancer rates have long been high at state borders, we now know that millions of Americans are being harmed by exported or "cross-state" air pollution, precious few of whom enjoy the benefits that said pollution produced.
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The drafted orders would have instructed the EPA to halt and consider repealing rules on coal pollution in waterways, coal ash disposal, mercury and other air pollutants from coal-fired power plants, ground-level ozone pollution and air pollution that crosses state lines.
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Back then, it was a terrifying mystery, until Graham and his fellow reformers stepped in to name the cause: not pollution, but self-pollution.
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The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which monitors water quality and reduces pollution, is eliminated entirely, as are pollution cleanup programs in the Chesapeake Bay.
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In Delhi, smoke from fireworks contains a high concentration of tiny pollution particles called PM2.5, or "fine particle pollution," said CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller.
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Environmentalist are still ascertaining the cause of the whale's death, which could be due to underwater sound pollution, industrial pollution, plastic consumption or disease.
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"I never minimized the effects of pollution on our health," Aubier told the court, adding that the links between pollution and cancer were weak.
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"There is a very substantial threat of air pollution and water pollution," Fanny Douvere, who coordinates the World Heritage Center's marine program, told Mashable.
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What you've got, effectively, is the collected stories of Brits abroad: water pollution, noise pollution, fish bowls, bad coke and empty bags of chips .
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Researchers already knew that pigeons picked up environmental toxins, but until now no one knew if pollution in pigeons corresponded with pollution in people.
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The Environmental Protection Agency, meanwhile, has started to undo major regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, water pollution, methane pollution and more.
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Transporting this coal long distances by rail generates air pollution and additional greenhouse gas emissions, and contributes to public fatalities, congestion and noise pollution.
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In fact, reducing pollution brings large economic benefits once you take into account health care costs and the effects of lower pollution on productivity.
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But to reduce local air pollution, you need to have your offset in the vicinity of the pollution source, like a coal power plant.
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Still, cumulatively, we can begin taking steps to mitigate the pollution that already exists and begin to minimize the pollution that's created going forward.
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health found that in 214, there were 22008 million premature deaths stemming from air pollution around the world.
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In January 2017, the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, issued a "very high" air pollution alert as residents suffered from high particulate matter pollution levels.
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Whites, on the other hand, experience a "pollution advantage," meaning they are exposed to 17 percent less pollution than is caused by their consumption.
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Bill Wehrum, a former energy industry attorney who fought to weaken air pollution rules, critics say, now oversees air pollution regulations at the EPA.
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Dispersal of the pollution largely depends on weather conditions, with two cold air fronts likely to help reduce pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region through to Wednesday, the environmental ministry said, before conditions deteriorate again and potentially lead to another heavy bout of pollution.
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The Trump administration has so far rolled back 24 different regulations and accords related to air pollution, according to a New York Times analysis, including rules around air pollution from refineries, industrial pollution of 189 different substances, and regulation of "haze" in national parks.
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The Indonesian capital had the worst air pollution in Asia on June 14, higher than any pollution black spots in China and India, Greenpeace said.
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On pollution emissions, Sanders said he would hold factory farms accountable for such pollution by strictly enforcing the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.
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But experts have urged the country to adopt tougher measures against vehicle pollution, including congestion charges, as they bid to cut air pollution concentrations further.
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As the anti-pollution campaign expands further south, policymakers will have to walk a fine line between cracking down on pollution and ensuring economic growth.
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Clean Power Plan: This program aimed to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, the nation's largest source of carbon pollution, by a third by 2030.
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Air pollution has become the "deadliest form of pollution" and is now the fourth leading risk factor for premature deaths, according to the World Bank.
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The country has had draconian anti-pollution measures since 22015, when it introduced a set of prohibitions called the national action plan on air pollution.
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The measures are aimed at cutting pollution in northeast China, home to numerous population centres, including the capital Beijing, that suffer from high pollution levels.
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Air pollution: Air pollution is one of the leading causes of death around the world, but it harms the environment in more ways than one.
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They're measuring both air pollution as well as how much air a cyclist inhales, allowing them to estimate how much pollution reaches a cyclists' lungs.
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"It is much more expensive to clean up surface water from severe pollution than to implement proper management which includes prevention of pollution," he said.
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Air pollution is by far the largest contributor to early death, according to the new research produced by The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.
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Water pollution, responsible for 1.8 million deaths, and workplace-related pollution, which led to 603 million deaths, pose the next largest risks, the report noted.
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TRUMP EPA CONSIDERING POLLUTION LIMITS ON TRUCKS: The Trump administration is embarking on what could be its first new regulation to reduce air pollution levels.
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But while marine plastic pollution has been studied for decades, the extent and effects of plastic pollution elsewhere is only just beginning to be explored.
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Although creating a market for pollution reduction sounds workable, it may not fly politically because a price on pollution might be perceived as a tax.
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Indeed, EVs are lower in greenhouse gas and particle pollution than conventional vehicles, even factoring in the pollution from the electricity used to charge them.
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Non-profit group Ocean Legacy Foundation fights plastic ocean pollution with clean-up expeditions, land-based plastic collection, recycling, education and pollution hot-spot mapping.
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In India, environmental pollution from dirty energy sources has created devastating pollution, which, according to recent study, contributed to 1.4 million premature deaths in 2013.
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Instead, Pruitt boasted about his aggressive deregulatory agenda, including actions to roll back major Obama administration rules on climate change, water pollution and air pollution.
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It would be ridiculous to think that you could address air pollution and water pollution problems by keeping that within the borders of the state.
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And it's not just greenhouse gases — every additional car brings more local air and water pollution, noise pollution, collisions and fatalities, and increased infrastructure costs.
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By "pollution", those who make this argument don't mean natural particulate matter such as pollen and soil dusts, they mean nasty industrial and vehicle pollution.
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The WHO says that, globally, outdoor air pollution in urban areas causes an estimated 1.3 million deaths annually, while indoor air pollution causes two million deaths.
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RELATED: Swedish start-up tackles air pollution head on The Ministry of Environmental Protection says the pollution is clear by the end of Thursday, Xinhua reported.
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Won't things like noise pollution and skyline pollution be an issue if we are to see an entirely new flight-based transportation system become a reality?
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Air pollution particles found in the womb A 2017 study found that women who are exposed to air pollution during pregnancy have babies with shorter telomeres.
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In other words, once a "major source" reduces its pollution below the line, it doesn't have to keep using the best equipment to continue reducing pollution.
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She calls the proposal "akin to a pollution tax," with the new employees joining the city and renting apartments serving as the pollution in this analogy.
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In reality, studies of both air pollution and water pollution point to health dangers for anyone breathing near mountaintop mines or rubble-covered streams, she said.
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Pollution alerts during the winter pollution season are common in the region - a problem that the government has struggled to solve despite a multi-year effort.
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The report only included pollution levels from cities with a population of over 100,000 residents that monitor their pollution levels -- something many African cities don't do.
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In recent years, compensation claims for major oil pollution incidents have largely been handled by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) inter-governmental body.
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Their conclusion: current U.S. rules are not strict enough to prevent pollution-related deaths and further reductions in pollution will produce a big drop in fatalities.
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But because pollution from small sources like wetlands and tributaries pollution often affects downstream waters, the rule undoubtedly would improve the quality of drinking water systems.
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Since taking office last year, Pruitt has worked to roll back regulations on climate change, air pollution, water pollution, car efficiency, chemical plant safety and more.
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"Basing enforcement on interagency consensus places politics above pollution control," he said, pointing to the fact that the policy doesn't mention pollution reduction as a goal.
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This kind of plastic pollution is not at all unheard of in Indonesia, which is the second largest contributor of marine plastic pollution in the world.
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Surely, the air pollution agency in a state already reeling from global warming-fed fires and drought will resist such a trade-off for more pollution.
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Also on the chopping block are critical clean-air programs, like pollution monitoring, that have helped states and communities make historic strides in fighting air pollution.
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Of the total, about 670,000 died from air pollution in the wider environment and 53,000 from household pollution related to the use of solid cooking fuels.
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Next, they located areas that experienced the most air pollution and broke those areas down by demographics to determine who was exposed to the most pollution.
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But during earlier episodes of heavy pollution, factories in Hebei Province flouted regulations aimed at reducing pollution, and they needed to be "strictly punished," Greenpeace said.
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When they are exposed to air pollution, these free radicals may be created to fight off potential pollution deposits, but as the white blood cells cannot kill the pollution particles, more white blood cells come in, creating even more free radicals, causing oxidative stress and inflammation.
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And while China had made progress in reducing air pollution, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India experienced the largest increases in air pollution levels since 2010, the report found.
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The amount of pollution is staggering: Fossil fuels produce more than 36 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution per year, according to the Global Carbon Project.
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The Mayor of London issued a "Very High" air pollution alert on Monday, as people living in the U.K. capital suffered from high particulate matter pollution levels.
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At the time of writing, the air pollution in the capital city reads 403 AQI (Air Quality Index) PM2.5, according to the U.S. Embassy's air pollution monitor.
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But while air quality regulations can reduce pollution from sources like factories, power plants, and cars, tougher pollution rules won't do much to thwart PM2.5 from wildfires.
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This action, caused by stresses such as increased water temperature and pollution, leaves the coral skeleton exposed, making it more susceptible to heat stress, disease and pollution.
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Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to public health in the world today — even worse than water pollution, according to the 2018 Environmental Performance Index report.
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This action, caused by stresses such as increased water temperatures and pollution, leaves the coral skeleton exposed, making it more susceptible to heat stress, disease and pollution.
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The region will also strengthen pollution checks and impose tougher punishments on companies and officials for violating regulations, in a further effort to cut pollution and smog.
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" Environmentalists challenged Obama in 2012 over his decision to extend "weak" limits on particulate matter pollution, and in 2010 "for failing to regulate power plant water pollution.
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Many Africans rely on cooking with wood and charcoal, making indoor pollution a big issue -- 600,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa die every year from indoor pollution.
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The Trump administration has already taken many steps that will result in thousands more people dying from pollution every year by rolling back government protections on pollution.
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In many cases, Trump officials are unilaterally delaying regulations such as the EPA's rules on ozone pollution, safety plans for chemical plants and methane pollution from landfills.
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The lawsuits have fought delays, rollbacks and changes to federal methane pollution rules, ozone pollution rules, appliance energy efficiency standards and vehicle fuel efficiency, among other policies.
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The first body of research studies people in older age brackets and maps their health outcomes onto possible air pollution exposures generated from regional pollution-monitoring data.
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Because the USMCA fails to include binding climate pollution standards that would apply across borders, companies will simply continue outsourcing pollution to wherever environmental standards are lowest.
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With these changes, projects won't have to consider how their pollution adds to existing stressors that already cause toxic pollution, which is predominantly in communities of color.
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A recent study that suggested air pollution is linked to reduced brain function was based on tests conducted in what country, where several cities struggle with pollution?
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EPA: DON'T STAY AIR POLLUTION RULE: The Obama administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday there is no reason to stay a major EPA air pollution rule.
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This ramped up pollution in the winter is further compounded by an increase in moisture in the air, which traps the pollution and creates a permanent haze.
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To ensure clean water for the citizens of the world, we must stop as much pollution as possible at its source, phasing out polluting factory farms and toxic mining, minimizing pollution discharges, limiting development near our water supplies, and preventing runoff pollution with restored wetlands and green roofs.
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"That area is one of the areas with the highest air pollution in the entire country," atmospheric pollution expert Albert Presto of Carnegie Mellon University told BuzzFeed News.
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My plan will eliminate fossil fuel pollution from all sectors to achieve a 100% clean energy economy and net-zero global warming pollution by no later than 2045.
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That quickly adds up: workers in the call centres studied are estimated to be 6% more productive on low-pollution days than on days when pollution is high.
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"We're facing major challenges with things like climate change, plastic pollution, and all other kinds of pollution," says Simon Lockrey, a sustainability researcher at RMIT University in Melbourne.
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"We are all very suddenly waking up to the pollution that surrounds our lives, and accelerated aging and pollution have finally been linked," says Oskia founder Georgie Cleeve.
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Bosnia is number five on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of the deadliest countries for air pollution with 92 deaths in every 100,000 citizens due to pollution.
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In April 2015 a major action plan was announced by the State Council to tackle water pollution -- the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan, or Water 10.
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Research from the EPA has found that black and Latino communities deal with far more pollution than whites, despite these groups creating less pollution than their white counterparts.
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Most toxicologists and epidemiologists accept that air pollution can harm humans, and that excessive air pollution can lead to death in vulnerable populations (like children and the elderly).
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"Strong vehicle standards protect our communities from unnecessary air pollution and fuel costs, and they address the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States," they wrote.
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Although dead zones can occur naturally, they are created largely by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities like farming and industrial pollution, according to the National Ocean Service.
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Also, on the hit list are two Interior Department rules on water pollution from coal mining and methane pollution from oil and natural gas wells on federal land.
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Although some Koch companies have substantially cut their carbon pollution in recent years, their powerful political network has continued to oppose policies leading to reduced greenhouse gas pollution.
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Meantime, water pollution was responsible for 1.8 million fatalities, while work-related pollution — which caused 800,000 deaths two years ago — posed the next largest risk, the report said.
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For example, fuel shifting (coal to gas) and various pollution regulations have meant that the average pollution of conventional power plants fell over the years of the study.
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In the case of the air pollution studies, a rigorous follow-up examination was done by the Health Effects Institute, a nonprofit research group that studies air pollution.
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If you put a price on pollution, it will create the incentive for folks to save money by reducing pollution, choosing cleaner solutions and the innovations we need.
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The companies have asked the agency to roll back at least eight Obama-era rules regulating water pollution, climate change, coal ash and air pollution, among other measures.
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It is important to note that this only found an association with air pollution — the study did not conclusively determine pollution to be the cause of kidney disease.
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With pollution increasing, Sydney reached as high as No. 19 on the Air Visual global rankings of cities with the worst air pollution, ahead of Mumbai and Shanghai.
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Air pollution: a chemical soup Air pollution is a serious health concern, responsible for millions of premature deaths each year, with even more anticipated due to climate change.
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The Los Angeles area is fifth worst for year-round particle pollution and seventh for short-term particle pollution, according to the annual State of the Air report.
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In 2015 VW was caught using illegal engine control software to cheat U.S. pollution tests by masking excessive levels of nitrogen oxide pollution coming from its diesel cars.
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If they side with the epidemiologists and environmental scientists who say air pollution can trigger death, they would have to actively oppose the Trump administration's EPA, which has hired air pollution skeptics to fill scientific advisor positions and has used junk air pollution science to justify gutting climate change regulations.
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"There will be more pollution (from the projected runway at Heathrow) but it will be against a background of reduced pollution from the wider area, and so the general pollution level will drop, we think below the critical level we now have for health impacts," Professor Rod Jones told the BBC.
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Of course, levels of air pollution are not equal across the US. According to the 2019 "State of the Air" report from the American Lung Association (ALA) — which compiled pollution data from 2015 to 2017 — the 25 US cities with the worst air pollution are mostly located in eight states.
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The government's pollution plans have been criticized by environmental groups which have said the 45 local authority areas would be unlikely to comply with European pollution rules until 2021.
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Only six qualify as "cleanest," meaning they have no high ozone or high-particle-pollution days and rank among the 25 cities with the lowest year-round particle pollution.
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Mr. James, 34, works in Chicago as an attorney-adviser for the Illinois Pollution Control Board, which adopts environmental regulations and adjudicates contested pollution-related cases for the state.
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Air pollution is becoming a serious problem in the U.K. A report last year said that exposure to outdoor air pollution was linked to roughly 40,000 deaths every year.
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The budget would also zero out money for states for dealing with such problems as non-point source pollution, radon, lead, underground storage tanks, pollution prevention and beach protection.
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Air pollution is a global problem, and while the US is a major contributor to climate pollution, we are not the only culprit or necessarily even the biggest culprit.
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Last year they sued the EPA to have pollution from plants like Belews, in North Carolina and eight other states, included in recently implemented regulations targeting cross-state pollution.
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Traditionally, when the E.P.A. puts forth such a pollution reduction rule, it includes a requirement for polluting entities to purchase existing technology, such as smokestack "scrubbers," to cut pollution.
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In the absence of a concrete state policy, rising air pollution levels have already boosted a mini-industry of protective devices such as air purifiers and air pollution masks.
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A House committee on Wednesday passed a bill to delay the Obama administration's new ozone pollution rule and change the way the federal government writes future air pollution rules.
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In line with this tech are ways of consuming pollution or even garbage—the hope is we can create nanobots that eat the waste and pollution humans have made.
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The EPA arrived at those large benefit numbers by including indirect pollution co-benefits other than direct reduction in mercury pollution, a move Trump's EPA is likely to review.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has a rule that aims to reduce cross-state air pollution, but it only regulates air pollution that comes from power generation, Barrett said.
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The city said is carrying out an investigation on water pollution from 13 chemical plants around Lianyungang and will continue to crack down on pollution from its chemical sector.
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The recently released Lancet Commission on Pollution notes that since 1970 for every dollar invested in reducing air pollution an average of $30 has returned to the U.S. economy.
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Although we typically picture pollution as coming directly from cars or power plants, a large fraction of air pollution actually comes from chemical reactions that happen in the atmosphere.
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Air pollution kills about 1.6 million people annually in China — and a Stanford researcher estimates that a two-month drop in pollution could have spared about 80,000 premature deaths.
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A recent report from IQAir, a group that surveys air pollution worldwide, highlighted the cities with the worst pollution, many of which were located in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
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For instance, pollution standards might reduce employment in coal mining and coal-fired power, but demand for electricity will pull those jobs into either pollution remediation or alternative sources.
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The EPA has declined to say how much excess pollution it thinks the Volkswagen vehicles will emit or how much excess pollution will be offset under the $3.03 billion program.
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"Many people feel things got worse, because the impression of the pollution in December remains very deep," said Yu, referring to an episode that sparked Beijing's first pollution red alerts.
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But no matter what, "you're going to put out a lot of pollution when you burn a campfire," Lisa Herschberger, an environmental research scientist with Minnesota's pollution control agency, says.
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Second, Southern California already has awful air pollution problems, and the smoke from prescribed fires could cause areas like the San Joaquin basin to run afoul of federal pollution limits.
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In the U.S., pollution levels have been significantly reduced and it's something of a success story, Kaufman said, but in other areas of the world particulate pollution hasn't been addressed.
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RAIGAD, MAHARASHTRA * SAYS CO APPLIED TO MAHARASHTRA POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD FOR CONSENT TO OPERATE * SAYS CO SUSPENDED OPERATIONS OF PLANT ON DIRECTIONS OF CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD Source text - bit.
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While the hype around pollution-fighting products isn't necessarily a new concept, it is a "reaction to the increasing scientific evidence that pollution actually does damage the skin," says Tanzi.
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Delhi's sources of pollution are varied, said Joshua S. Apte, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, who has studied Delhi's air pollution since 2007.
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Plus, we already know that there's a higher incidence of acne in high air-pollution areas, and that pollution seems to be able to interfere with the skin's barrier function.
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A report last year by the Lancet Commission on pollution and health, which put the total number of pollution-related deaths at 0003m, mentions plastics once in its 2000 pages.
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The technique of using software to detect a pollution test procedure, and to increase the effectiveness of emissions filters to mask pollution levels during tests, was first developed at Audi.
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Which is why, as people build deeper and deeper into wildland areas, the relevant question isn't just how much pollution these fires producing, but what kind of pollution they're producing.
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Burning of crop residue in farm belts surrounding Delhi, industrial and vehicular pollution, and dust from construction projects causes a sharp spike in pollution across northern India as winter approaches.
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But it is a huge worry: Around 9,400 deaths a year in London are linked to pollution, and 500,000 Londoners under 20163 live in areas that breach EU pollution limits.
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Worsening air pollution emerged as one of the main campaign issues in South Korea's recent election, with air pollution soaring to record highs in the first few months of 2017.
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In short, the ACE rule abandons EPA's responsibility to take effective actions to reduce carbon pollution from power plants even though scientific evidence demonstrates that CO2 pollution endangers public health.
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According to Mueller, mothers may want to take precautions against pollution during the third trimester, such as exercising indoors if they live in places with high levels of air pollution.
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When its regulators are crafting new pollution rules, they typically count up both the compliance costs for polluters and then weigh those against the public-health benefits of lower pollution.
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Livestock pollution has emerged as one of China's biggest pollution threats, and new regulations have forced thousands of facilities to relocate or close near densely populated or environmentally sensitive regions.
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For three consecutive winters, researchers traced levels of air pollution at three monitoring sites in and near Provo, Utah, where air pollution varies predictably with the weather and snow cover.
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These include investing in renewable sources of energy to cut air pollution, increasing the amount of green spaces in urban areas, and improving both knowledge and monitoring of air pollution.
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The company admitted to manipulating pollution controls on vehicles so that they could pass laboratory emissions tests, even as the cars continued to far exceed pollution standards on the road.
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Air pollution deaths per 21960,22005 residents 60 227 210 Pa. In 220 states, the majority of those deaths were caused by pollution blowing in from beyond the state's own borders.
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As Australian Open Begins, Pollution From Fires Is in Play: Organizers of the year's first Grand Slam tournament say they will suspend play outdoors if pollution levels become too hazardous.
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There are environmental benefits, too: While increased production increases pollution, the higher income drives better technology and more stringent regulations, which in turn reduces pollution by some 12.5-15 percent.
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I've read about the pollution from power plants in the region, and understand that pollution from power plants as far away as Pennsylvania and Ohio can darken our Shenandoah skies.
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Robert O'Keefe, vice president at the Health Effects Institute, said China's trajectory on deaths from air pollution had stabilized as a result of the country's efforts to reduce air pollution.
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There is more than one type of air pollution, and this study focused on what is called "fine particulate matter," a type of pollution that is especially harmful to humans.
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When Reichmuth worked on a study of pollution exposure of different racial groups in California, he found that white Californians were exposed to less pollution than Hispanic and black Californians.
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But air pollution is rising in unprecedented ways, in part because of regulatory choices his administration has already made, and his team is moving to allow even more air pollution.
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They've put into place community education programs there, to try to curb the risks associated with air pollution by holding workshops on asthma and identifying the sources of air pollution.
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The market-based system sets an overall limit on pollution, and allows power plants that cut their pollution to earn credits that can be stockpiled or sold to other polluters.
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Exposing yourself to air pollution is no joke: A recent report published in the Lancet found that in 2015, 9 million deaths were linked to air, water, and workplace-related pollution.
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For the Danish patients they compared mental health to exposure to air pollution up to the age of 10 while in the United States they looked at real-time pollution levels.
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These include reducing pollution, especially greenhouse gas pollution; protecting threatened species and lands; and bringing back opportunity to communities that have been left behind as capitalism and tech progress race ahead.
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As pollution levels rose this winter, and municipalities imposed bans on sources of pollution, the nation's environment minister held an emergency meeting in Rome with representatives of Italy's regions and municipalities.
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At best, corn ethanol provides a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas pollution over gasoline, while cellulosic fuel produces an 80 percent reduction in that pollution and doesn't compete with food.
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Volkswagen Group, whose "dieselgate scandal" in 2015 triggered much of the awareness about pollution, has said it will offer diesel trade-ins in 14 German cities where pollution is considered high.
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"There is a linear relationship between air pollution and hypertension, which indicated that even a very low level of air pollution might induce hypertension risk," Liu told Reuters Health by email.
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Household air pollution is a major killer globally, and one that disproportionately affects women since they're the ones cooking and breathing in pollution from poorly-designed stoves or solid fuel emissions.
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Much of the pollution is from traffic, but construction site machinery accounts for an estimated 12 percent of soot and 15 percent of nitrogen oxides pollution in London, city authorities say.
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"We look at straws as one of the gateway issues to help people start thinking about the global plastic pollution problem," Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO Dianna Cohen previously told Business Insider.
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"We look at straws as one of the gateway issues to help people start thinking about the global plastic pollution problem," Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO Dianna Cohen previously told Business Insider.
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Prior to 2012, mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants was completely unlimited and accounted for 48 percent of all human-caused mercury pollution, according to a report by Columbia University.
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ANOTHER EPA AIR POLLUTION LAWSUIT: Conservation and public health groups are taking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court in an attempt to force an update of two air pollution standards.
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"Pollution endangers the stability of the Earth's support systems and threatens the continuing survival of human societies," the authors of the Commission on Pollution and Health research said in the report.
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Last week pollution surged to "emergency" levels, as the Central Pollution Control Board's air quality index of poisonous particulate matter hit 440, more than 12 times the U.S. government's recommended limit.
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Although air pollution includes the regular culprits like carbon monoxide and ozone, Trasande and his colleagues used particulate matter smaller than 103 micrometers as a stand-in for all air pollution.
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Although air pollution includes the regular culprits like carbon monoxide and ozone, Trasande and his colleagues used particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers as a stand-in for all air pollution.
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If air pollution stays at this level for more than 48 hours, authorities will implement emergency measures for the first time this year, a Central Pollution Control Board official told CNN.
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"Although the link between air pollution and Alzheimer's disease is a new scientific frontier, we now have evidence that air pollution, like tobacco, is dangerous to the aging brain," he added.
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Pollution versus park Chung's team set out find out the effects of pollution on people with heart and lung disease, most of whom are over the age of 60, he said.
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Democrats argue federal regulations protect states from pollution that they shouldn't be blamed for, such as emissions that drift across state lines or water pollution that flows along the nation's rivers.
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Add in a new appreciation of the harmful health effects of indoor air pollution due to smoke from cooking fires, and air pollution has become one of the world's major killers.
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This means more shipping traffic — and more microplastic pollution.
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Global warming and plastic pollution — and also the cheeto.
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As part of an air pollution control project initiated by Premier Li Keqiang, about 1,500 scientists from major government institutes and universities have already been dispatched to 28 smog-prone northern cities since 2017, helping local authorities draw up bespoke pollution control plans, said Chai Fahe, deputy director of the National Air Pollution Control Centre.
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In addition to the proposal to loosen car pollution rules, those moves include replacing a landmark effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants with a plan that the agency says will see air pollution actually rise, and reducing limits on methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, from oil and gas wells.
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Worst of all, they say, the Government deliberately delayed attacking long-term problems like global warming linked to pollution, acid rain, toxic waste, air pollution and the contamination of underground water supplies.
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Mukherjee, who has spent years raising awareness and creating localized efforts to curb plastic pollution credits the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government for making waste management and pollution a more serious issue.
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"This research has significant potential to initiate a global research effort to understand a hitherto unknown effect of air pollution and provide significant additional impetus to the control of pollution," Monks added.
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The discussion included products for clean and renewable energy, energy efficiency, controlling air pollution, managing waste, treating waste water, monitoring the quality of the environment, and combating noise pollution, the WTO said.
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Air pollution is a major problem around the world, with the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that around 3 million deaths every year are linked to people's exposure to outdoor air pollution.
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Separately, the California environmental agency that probed Volkswagen's diesel vehicles for violating pollution-control rules is now scrutinizing whether some gasoline-powered vehicles are emitting excess pollution, according to a senior official.
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When the pollution level is marginal an elevated fan speed can sometimes appear to challenge the efficacy of the filtration as if it's holding pollution levels in place rather than reducing them.
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Coal plants that purchase the credits are allowed to emit more pollution, and in recent years it has been cheaper to buy credits than to run pollution-control equipment at peak effectiveness.
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The discussion includes products for clean and renewable energy, energy efficiency, controlling air pollution, managing waste, treating waste water, monitoring the quality of the environment, and combating noise pollution, the WTO said.
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Twitter India said that it hoped to increase public awareness about rising levels of air pollution and its health effects in India, as well as democratise live air pollution data for everyone.
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Indonesia in 2012 acceded to the IMO's International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, MARPOL Annex VI, which is the main international agreement covering all types of pollution from ships.
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A Gallup poll last month found that 63 percent of Americans are concerned "a great deal" about drinking water pollution, while 85033 percent are concerned about pollution in lakes, rivers and reservoirs.
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Scientists cannot strap pollution monitors onto humans and follow them around for years at a time, so sometimes they rely on models that predict air pollution concentrations at certain locations and times.
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Days after the EPA's founding, a New York Times investigation revealed that the majority of the state air and water pollution control boards were staffed by industry representatives engaged in pollution activities.
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Experts say the quantities of pollution are massive and are steadily rising as the oil and gas industries perform the pollution-intensive process of restarting operations that were halted by the storm.
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"Local authorities have been focused only on air pollution and water pollution and have not paid attention to waste disposal," Zhou Zhiqiang, a senior official with the MEE, said at the briefing.
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We are still learning about other long-term damage air pollution may cause in the brain; research is now showing a possible link between air pollution and an increased risk of dementia.
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Enck said that's not a proper role for the EPA and that all of the pollution clean-up costs should be incurred by the parties who are deemed responsible for the pollution.
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Put differently, eviscerating the protections afforded by our environmental laws does not require weakening the formal standards that are supposed to address air pollution, water pollution and the management of hazardous waste.
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The ACE rule does not meet that goal, it substantially weakens prior requirements for CO2 pollution reductions, and it does not include pollution reduction standards at all for existing natural gas plants.
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"With air, you stop pollution at the source, and the blue skies come back instantly," said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, which monitors Chinese water pollution.
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Since then, developed countries have cut back on those cooling aerosols for the purpose of countering regular air pollution, which has likely increased the net climate pollution of the power generation industry.
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The area of California around Fresno, Madera, and Hanford was found to have the most year-round particle pollution, while Bakersfield, California was the city with the worst short-term particle pollution.
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While the report found that China had made some progress in declining air pollution, it states that Pakistan, Bangladesh and India have experienced the steepest increases in air pollution levels since 2010.
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Specifically, a 2016 update to the Cross State Air Pollution Rule went far enough to regulate states' ozone pollution and will meet the legal standard once it is implemented, the EPA said.
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Among the 10 cities with the most air pollution, four are in India, according to the World Health Organization, with the use of coal in power generation a leading source of pollution.
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The program works with six states and Washington, D.C., on a number of efforts related to the iconic bay and its watershed, like its major "pollution diet" and a pollution enforcement strategy.
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Its report, "Danger in the air: How air pollution can affect brain development in young children," states that breathing in particulate air pollution can both undermine cognitive development and damage brain tissue.
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China's early reductions in air pollution have been achieved through an engineering-style fiat that dictates specific actions, rather than relying on markets to find the least expensive methods to reduce pollution.
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However, the EPA's tests showed that even shiny new glider trucks can spew upward of 55 times the amount of pollution of modern trucks that use the current generation of pollution controls.
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Many environmental economists say that in order for a carbon tax to significantly cut planet-warming pollution, it should be set at a rate of $30 to $50 per ton of pollution.
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In India, the Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre wrote, household air pollution is "the single largest source of air pollution exposure" in the country — larger than transportation, coal use and open burning.
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Indoor air pollution levels were calculated by taking a limited set of actual indoor air pollution data and extrapolating it based on what fuels people use in their kitchens in different countries.
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Some countries in the analysis, like the US, already have measures in place to keep air pollution in check; despite that, they saw higher increases in death rates as pollution went up.
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Trump's top environmental regulator, who has overseen aggressive rollbacks of rules on greenhouse gases, air pollution, water pollution, chemicals and more, also tied religion into his ongoing criticisms of left-wing environmentalists.
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EPA TAKES AIM AT MERCURY POLLUTION RULE: The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that could weaken the legal justification behind a major 2202 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule limiting mercury pollution.
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To justify a much weaker regulation, the EPA is changing how it calculates the economic and societal values of reducing pollution, which reduces the benefits relative to the costs of curbing pollution.
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Noel added that the pollution program is also studying the effects of plastic and garbage on killer whales, mussels, zooplankton, and is doing a broad monitoring of pollution on the BC coast.
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"There are a number of common-sense precautions that anyone can take to reduce their exposures to air pollution, including monitoring daily air pollution alerts and reducing outdoor activities – especially outdoor exercise – during high pollution periods, using air filtration systems while indoors, and using the recirculate setting of your car ventilation system while traveling in heavy traffic," Eckel noted.
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Alan LowenthalAlan Stuart LowenthalNow is our chance to turn the tide on ocean plastic pollution Greenpeace says many plastics are not actually recyclable A disaster for diplomacy and the Zionist dream MORE's (D-Calif.) new Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, introduced Tuesday in Congress, offers some strong measures we need to tackle ocean plastic pollution.
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At the same time, Africa cannot afford to ignore the 'old' problem of household pollution or to consider it largely solved: it is only a few high-income countries - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Seychelles and Tunisia - that can afford to view the problem of air pollution as being a problem of outdoor particulate pollution alone.
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We now know that the de facto industrial model of raising livestock has had all kinds of negative impacts: It's a major contributor to climate change, antibiotic resistance, water pollution, and air pollution.
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For decades, California has been issued waivers allowing it to set air pollution standards higher than that of the federal government due to its unique and significant struggle with air pollution and smog.
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So, though Dr Miller's work does not point towards a better treatment for pollution-induced cardiovascular disease, it does add weight to the arguments of those who worry about levels of air pollution.
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"People naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them – they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and greenhouse gases," he wrote in the Guardian newspaper.
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Related: The Yellowstone Supervolcano Breathes in a Gorgeous Timelapse Video Light Pollution Is No Match for the Milky Way in These Stunning Timelapses Africa's Light Pollution-Free Natural Wonders Are Gorgeous in 4K
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People of color are exposed to 1.2 times more particulate matter pollution, and black people are at particular risk, exposed, on average, to 1.54 times more particulate matter pollution than the general population.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the sole non-California city in the top five, with 19903 pollution-related deaths that year; while the NYC metropolitan area was sixth, with 21990 estimated deaths caused by pollution.
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Henan, a major coal and metal producer in central China, is under heavy pressure to curb pollution and restructure its industrial economy as Beijing's five-year "war on pollution" expands to more regions.
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Obama and his administration have gotten plenty of attention - and rightly so - for their efforts to curb carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, one of the country's largest sources of carbon pollution.
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It was another staunch Republican, Richard Nixon, who created the Environmental Protection Agency, in case anyone has forgotten, to reduce pollution and streamline the patchwork of anti-pollution laws in states and localities.
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Related: Light Pollution Is No Match for the Milky Way in These Stunning Timelapses Africa's Light Pollution-Free Natural Wonders Are Gorgeous in 4K Space Photographer Explains How To Shoot The Milky Way
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Under Trump, decades of steady progress on non-climate air pollution have finally been reversed, and his administration is hard at work writing new rules that would increase water pollution levels as well.
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More than 90% of air pollution-related deaths happen there, but cities in the Americas, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean also have air pollution levels that are beyond what the WHO considers healthy.
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EPA TO RECONSIDER COAL POLLUTION RULE: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it is reconsidering a 2011 air pollution rule that has been blamed for numerous coal-fired power plant closures.
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"Plastic pollution is an urgent global crisis and the time is now to think 'reusable' instead of 'disposable,'" said Dianna Cohen, co-founder and CEO of the Berkeley, California-based Plastic Pollution Coalition.
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One rejected an industry challenge to a rule limiting hazardous air pollution caused by PVC production and another revoked a mining permit because of harmful pollution in violation of the Clean Water Act.
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Both Michael Dourson and Kathleen Harnett White faced stiff opposition in the Senate for standing far outside the mainstream public's views on protecting American families from air pollution, water pollution, and dangerous chemicals.
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If fully implemented, the plan would have cut about six billion tons of greenhouse gas pollution over its lifetime, the equivalent of roughly a year's worth of greenhouse pollution for the entire country.
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The analysis also found a decline in cross-state deaths linked to electricity generation since 2005, an indication that pollution regulations, like the Environmental Protection Agency's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, are working.
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An outspoken skeptic of the consensus scientific view of climate change, Pruitt has taken dozens of actions to roll back Obama administration policies on climate, air pollution, water pollution, chemical safety and more.
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Tangshan, which issued an orange alert last week for pollution due to deteriorating weather conditions, said on Monday it will lift its heavy pollution controls as the air quality was expected to improve.
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But air pollution is a problem with roots in politics, and in Delhi, much of the pollution can be traced to distinct policy decisions, including the unintended consequences of a water conservation law.
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China's environment ministry recently said it was drawing up details of a new "battle plan" to curb pollution over the 2018-2020 period, after the previous five-year plan helped reduce hazardous pollution.
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Hazardous levels of pollution During Jokowi's visit to Pelalawan, air pollution exceeded 300 micrograms per cubic meter -- levels considered hazardous on the Air Quality Index (AQI), according to the country's Antara news agency.
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Pete Olson (R-Texas) and others, to delay the Environmental Protection Agency's ozone pollution rule from last year and make significant changes to the way the EPA writes pollution limits in the future.
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WINTER POLLUTION Beijing's imposition of winter pollution curbs may limit some demand for iron ore, but also encourage a move to higher grades as mills seek to maximise the output of blast furnaces.
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WINTER POLLUTION Beijing's imposition of winter pollution curbs may limit some demand for iron ore, but also encourage a move to higher grades as mills seek to maximize the output of blast furnaces.
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Death isn't the only negative outcome of exposure to pollution.
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He is already rolling back rules on limiting air pollution.
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If I'm reading it correctly the "externality" is carbon pollution.
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She says coal pollution is creating problems for her family.
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Image: SamsungOur plastic pollution problem is absolutely out of control.
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The other major cause of India's pollution problem is politics.
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The state's pollution policies rarely wilt its perennially blooming economy.
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Hydro has said it found no evidence of such pollution.
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Hunters are also leading civil society campaigns against lead pollution.
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At least she can't get a ticket for noise pollution.
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To stop that, we need to eliminate net carbon pollution.
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Coincidently, Brixton has already surpassed its 2017 air pollution limit.
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There were also improvements from various ages that reduced pollution.
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It was the worst air pollution disaster in US history.
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Any pollution dumped into those waters could affect key ecosystems.
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Air pollution is killing 2.5m people in India each year.
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In contrast, mathematics scores were hardly altered by pollution exposure.
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"This problem of pollution is created by us," he says.
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A textbook example of such "negative externalities" is air pollution.
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As a result, transport is the biggest source of pollution.
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Beijing is trying to limit air pollution and climate change.
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But light pollution doesn't just obscure our view of space.
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So why has our world been overtaken by light pollution?
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TC: How far are you going to combat that pollution?
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And the Bush administration promoted market strategies to fight pollution.
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Congress passed laws to protect the environment and curb pollution.
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Since Salinas is on the water, pollution can dilute faster.
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All the inefficient carting routes compound New York's pollution problem.
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Particulate pollution chiefly comes from burning fossil fuels for energy.
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Worrying about air pollution was largely the preserve of foreigners.
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Researchers also worry about controlling pollution by adding more chemicals.
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The government is more forthcoming about air and water pollution.
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Reducing water pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction can also help.
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But they'll barely trim carbon pollution from most commercial planes.
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Need an emoji to express your frustration with plastic pollution?
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One thing is clear: China's shift on pollution is real.
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"Oil pollution drives impoverished communities deeper into poverty," Westby said.
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Atlantic killifish have adapted to highly toxic levels of pollution.
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It's no secret that air pollution is bad for us.
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Tackling plastic pollution alone, even as a celebrity, isn't effective.
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You cannot hermetically seal your home against outdoor air pollution.
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Pollution from agriculture would be eliminated by supporting family farming.
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Although inequality and pollution have soared, so have living standards.
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Riders stopping the EPA from enforcing pollution from livestock production.
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It was unclear for how long the pollution had occured.
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The pollution did not even spare Delhi's elite diplomatic corps.
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The cause of Nigeria's pollution problem is a complex story.
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More upsetting are photographs of nearly unimaginable levels of pollution.
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London is moving to crack down on pollution and congestion.
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Dismay over premature deaths caused by pollution is one reason.
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Go deeper: Audi CEO arrested amid VW's pollution cheating scandal
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Curbing pollution and debt are two of Mr Xi's priorities.
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More than 3 million people die annually from air pollution.
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The government publicly declared a "war on pollution" in 2014.
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Near cities like Reno, air pollution monitoring stations are plentiful.
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Traffic accounts for 80 percent of noise pollution in cities.
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Unfortunately, much of this plastic ends up as environmental pollution.
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It contributes pollution related deaths as well as global warming.
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Zone, nukes and garbage in Underworld, toxic pollution in White
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There are certainly people dying from breathing this air pollution.
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By either method, pollution is higher in more segregated communities.
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The ozone is destructed by pollution, so it filtrates less.
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Khan said he was making difficult choices to cut pollution.
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Instead, they've asked the government to reduce the city's pollution.
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Then there's also the pollution aspect, or grey water footprint.
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United States's history of pollution, environmentalism, and urban development. Over
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Keeping up: London is trying to clean up air pollution.
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The electric truck will relieve the city of extra pollution.
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It was unclear for how long the pollution had occurred.
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This pollution taints the country's food supply, according to reports.
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Air pollution kills more than 12 million people every year.
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Number one how much air pollution is in the air.
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Plastic pollution is obviously a big problem for the environment.
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The trend of worsening water pollution was "critical", Borchardt said.
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Animal agriculture also contributes to water scarcity and groundwater pollution.
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In London, air pollution levels have frequently exceed approved levels.
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"Pollution has become a burden to exercise outdoors," Hu said.
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But most destructive of all may be the climate pollution.
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Traditional air pollution, not climate change, is a big driver.
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The smoke "was something so bad", with pollution indexes skyrocketing.
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Environmentally conscious companies still have factories and pollution is inevitable.
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Indoor air pollution contributes to 4.3m deaths globally each year.
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Cities also vary in the way they present pollution data.
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The water is monitored for pollution on a regular basis.
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Other factors include pollution, invasive species, hunting and climate change.
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These scientists didn't originally set out to document plastic pollution.
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The hotter it is, the more ozone pollution is produced.
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" The theme for World Environment Day is "Beat Plastic Pollution.
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Temperature, air pollution, and climate do not respect international boundaries.
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The plastic pollution in the gyre is far less visible.
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The traditional tradeoff often pits reducing pollution against economic growth.
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Here's another tradeoff: between traditional air pollution and climate change.
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Coal is a leading contributor to carbon air pollution globally.
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Beijing is also cracking down on environmental pollution from industry.
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"No society can afford to ignore air pollution," he said.
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Pollution could be another possible explanation, the report's authors added.
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In some areas, there was pollution caused by heavy metals.
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We don't have a pollution problem just in Flint, Mich.
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Meanwhile, a public health and pollution crisis is still unfolding.
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It increased the pollution controls; it did not reduce them.
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Even organising events related to air pollution can prove controversial.
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Scientists have highlighted the dangers of indoor air pollution before.
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Electrifying our trucks and our logistics fleet to reduce pollution.
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"PM 2.5 is one component of air pollution," Pfister said.
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Mercury pollution is a problem usually associated with fish consumption.
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But Trump's plan does nothing to address new PFAS pollution.
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These fuels minimize transport costs but increase harmful pollution impacts.
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The main source of this pollution is still in dispute.
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The Trump administration is rolling back restrictions on methane pollution.
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Because it was an industrial city, the pollution was severe.
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Los Angeles county monitored pollution on the roads, at least.
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Farmington, N.M., $262.7 million of pollution control revenue refinancing bonds.
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Ocean plastic pollution chokes turtles and interferes with their reproduction.
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Biomass combustion has been a source of serious atmospheric pollution.
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There is visible pollution over large portions of the Earth.
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You will pay for your pollution through the carbon tax.
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A view of the pollution near Ulsoor Lake in Bengaluru.
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Shortly after Volkswagen admitted to cheating pollution tests in Sept.
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They cover about 12 percent of the world's carbon pollution.
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Villagers were wrong to say pollution had continued, it said.
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The earth has been downgraded through pollution and global warming.
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Nine million people are dying annually from that air pollution.
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That helps explain why pollution doesn't seem to go down.
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Coal is the single biggest contributor to global carbon pollution.
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But their positive effects on CO2 pollution have remained steady.
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The green space could be much larger, further reducing pollution.
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There are figures of premature deaths caused by air pollution.
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The substantial pollution and drain on Earth's resources are inevitable.
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Coal use has plunged, bringing welcome relief from its pollution.
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And yes, all of these inactions curb pollution — a bit.
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The biggest association was between stroke, air pollution and dementia.
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In the nation's National Parks, air pollution clouded the views.
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"Air pollution is associated with so many problems," Benmarhnia explains.
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Methane accounts for 11 percent of total US climate pollution.
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It posed the question: how should regulators rein in pollution?
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Pollution in the ocean has disastrous effects, particularly for wildlife.
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"Pollution is at the top of my mind," she said.
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Air pollution is an enormous — and oddly overlooked — health hazard.
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Among them: Did the accident leave any pollution or contamination?
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New Delhi's air pollution regularly surges in the colder months.
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In all cases, the pollution levels were higher than expected.
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Because markets do not always price in "externalities" like pollution.
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The metal is used to reduce pollution from gas engines.
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How serious is air pollution in the world's largest cities?
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In 1003, Ma estimates, coal pollution alone caused 366,000 deaths.
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Pollution to groundwater from industrial waste can also harm health.
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Carbon emissions, pollution, development and overfishing have also impacted reefs.
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Pollution in industrial cities like Cleveland, Ohio, was particularly severe.
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Information pollution bleeds into our online commerce systems as well.
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Sound intensity and air pollution drop roughly exponentially with distance.
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A red alert is the highest possible air pollution warning.
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But the environmental metaphor — especially pollution — is a helpful model.
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Also: President Trump targets California's pollution rules, and Billie Eilish.
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How can I escape light pollution in New York City?
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"Our air pollution has gone to critical levels," he said.
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In Europe, diesel pollution has become a major political issue.
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Pollution levels can easily rise by much more than that.
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Though plunging coal use reduces air pollution, stockpiles are wasteful.
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The Trump administration removed pollution controls for streams and wetlands.
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Studies have shown that pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.
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Take the proposals on offshore safety and pollution prevention equipment.
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Oil and gas operations create a lot of methane pollution.
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China's air pollution has dropped dramatically after the coronavirus lockdown.
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Pollution actually mutes the colors by deflecting light, he said.
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And climate change is the mother of all pollution issues.
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Yes, we need to mop pollution out of the atmosphere.
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How does that compare to the pollution it might generate?
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The first threatened to withhold highway funds over air pollution.
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The bush fires are producing choking smoke and toxic pollution.
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More than once, Brennan compares uninformed voting to air pollution.
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Pollution has also caused widespread infertility and a shrinking population.
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Air Matters is a vital app for checking pollution levels.
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Tiny particles in air pollution wreak havoc on human health.
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At its worst, the pollution leaks into the Dead Sea.
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Of course, it's not just rural pollution that's choking Delhi.
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"The world is facing a pollution crisis," said de Kock.
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Water pollution is enormously costly in a variety of ways.
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Especially because so much pollution that gets dumped isn't intentional!
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That pollution contributes to climate change and worsens air quality.
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Or for more air pollution for our children to breathe.
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The problem of air pollution is already a significant one.
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This will result in extra fuel costs and more pollution.
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Carbon pollution and climate change disrupt all of these factors.
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This pollution shrouded Sydney's famous opera house earlier this month.
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How can some people be more affected by air pollution?
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Before long, I detected another, gentler source of noise pollution.
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Air pollution levels have remained largely consistent in recent years.
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Trucks account for 27% of carbon dioxide pollution in Europe.
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And yet another study found that air pollution causes dementia.
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Protesters said the singers caused noise pollution and disturbed residents.
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In 0003, researchers conducted a global census of light pollution.
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Is India's government making its epic air pollution even worse?
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They're completely revealed at 160 AQI, indicating unhealthy pollution levels.
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Exposure to air pollution could be a factor, experts suggest.
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Financial hardship and a concerted effort to reduce light pollution.
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They're exposed to indoor pollution, harmful carbon that causes cancer.
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Staying away from pollution and pesticides is a good idea.
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Climate change and pollution are also factors, albeit smaller ones.
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VW's scheme comes nearly two years since the firm admitted to cheating diesel pollution tests with the use of manipulated engine management software, subjecting it and the industry to intense pressure to cut pollution.
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This study found that the women who lived in neighborhoods in Beijing with higher levels of concentrated pollution including particulate matter pollution, sulfur dioxide, ozone and carbon monoxide saw a greater risk of miscarriage.
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China takes air pollution in its cities at least as seriously as it does climate change—a recent study found that air pollution contributed to the deaths of 1.6m people in China each year.
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London's mayor this week said that efforts his administration has supported to fight air pollution in the city have caused such pollution to drop by a third since the efforts launched six months ago.
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Exposure to air pollution in the U.S. is unevenly distributed, with the white population causing much of the pollution that black and Hispanic populations breathe in, a thought-provoking and novel new study found.
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At least 2.5 million people in India died early because of pollution in 2015, more than any other country in the world, according to a study by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health.
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A recent study by Harvard scientists showed that people over age 0003 and living in low-income communities were most vulnerable to air pollution and are dying prematurely even under current air-pollution standards.
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But there are pockets of the country, namely Los Angeles, where air pollution kills thousands of people, and, frighteningly, the Trump administration is poised to reverse the progress against pollution made in recent years.
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The agency is still relying on landmark studies, such as one conducted by Harvard University in 1993, that established the link between air pollution and premature deaths, in order to justify air pollution rules.
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In a step towards making live air pollution air data more democratic, IndiaSpend partnered with Twitter India to let users get real-time data on air pollution in their neighbourhood with just a tweet.
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These changes, and others, many of which are linked to deadly air pollution in both countries, are expected to offset additional pollution created as a result of the Trump administration's pro-fossil fuel policies.
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"The air pollution situation in Jiangsu is still very severe, as some authorities did not enforce effective measures and did not hold resolute attitude on wining the war against pollution," said the MEE report.
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Concerned about the level of local pollution following three decades of breakneck economic growth, Beijing dispatched four rounds of environment inspectors across the country from February 2016 to uncover violations of anti-pollution measures.
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A report released by a group helping the attorneys general outlined the lawsuits and other actions in areas like greenhouse gas pollution, energy efficiency, methane, water pollution, ozone and more, often resulting in victories.
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In the absence of enforceable federal standards for harmful pollution, there is nothing to guarantee that the utility industry would continue to operate pollution controls now limiting mercury and acid gases from power plants.
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I made that point on Twitter in the context of Nairobi's appalling pollution, paralyzed traffic and largely-unlighted slums: Musing on #CEM7 #cleanenergy conclave in context of paralysis, darkness & pollution I saw in Nairobi.
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In 2015, nearly one in six deaths, an estimated nine million worldwide, was related to pollution in some form -- air, water, soil, chemical or occupational pollution, according to a study published in The Lancet.
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But those communities also disproportionately have to deal with the effects of climate change and pollution: The EPA found last year that black people are much more likely to be exposed to air pollution.
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The fires, combined with car exhaust, smokestack emissions and the burning of garbage, contribute to pollution levels that often hover in the "severe" category, the highest level designated by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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Now is our chance to turn the tide on ocean plastic pollution Greenpeace says many plastics are not actually recyclable MORE (D-Calif.) announced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020 (S.
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A report released by a group helping the attorneys general outlined the lawsuits and other actions in areas like greenhouse gas pollution, energy efficiency, methane, water pollution, ozone and more, often resulting in victories.
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China launched countrywide audits in 2015 to help ensure compliance with efforts to curb pollution, with many local authorities accused of turning a blind eye to pollution in order to guarantee growth and employment.
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It also estimated pollution from the vehicle's manufacturing and production process and its subsequent air pollution, the release of pollutants that induce health problems, and greenhouse gas emission estimates to develop each vehicle's score.
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The publication of the report, "Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science based solutions", on Tuesday coincides with the World Health Organization holding its first global air pollution conference in Geneva this week.
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The study broke down the flow of air pollution like this: A factory, for instance, creates air pollution, but it is the consumer demand for whatever good is produced that necessitates the factory's operation.
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A decade ago she pushed the last major climate change measure hard, an ambitious bill to cap emissions of climate-warming pollution, then allow industries to trade emissions credits on a pollution credit market.
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Air Pollution Tied to Mental Health Issues in Teenagers Higher levels of pollution were linked to a greater likelihood of psychotic experiences ranging from a mild feeling of paranoia to a severe psychotic symptoms.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had found unusually high pollution levels in VW's vehicles and was threatening to withhold road certification for new cars until VW explained why pollution levels were too high.
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Moving from coal to gas is aimed at reducing the amount of pollution from particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns (PM2.5), pollution that is considered the most hazardous since it can lodge deep in the lungs.
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The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, introduced Tuesday, would ban single-use plastics, like bags and straws, in an effort to cut off pollution at its source rather than promoting recycling after the fact.
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It comes as no surprise that pollution has a choke-hold on China's economy, with a recent report suggesting that a staggering 6.5 percent of the country's GDP is being spent on pollution-related costs.
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Data on air pollution will be provided in the form of a graph on the driver's phone, and will also be uploaded to the cloud to create a broader map of pollution in the city.
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Indoor pollution The satellite map doesn't take into account the dangers of indoor pollution, primarily a problem in lower-income, rural areas where people use solid fuels like coal and wood for cooking and heating.
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Rather than simply ask if Americans exposed to more air pollution developed dementia at higher rates, the team identified a quasi-natural experiment that arbitrarily separated Americans into higher and lower air pollution exposure groups.
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Last month, Oregon public health officials advised residents to stop eating vegetables grown in gardens within a half mile of the so-called pollution "hot spots," or areas where the pollution appears to be concentrated.
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Breitbart has published Milloy's writings at least 35 times—writings that feature titles like "How Stupid is Air Pollution 'Science'?" and "More of EPA's Fradulent 'Science,'" referring to the fact that air pollution kills people.
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Robert Phalen, who directs the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at the University of California Irvine, is not an obvious ideologue like Honeycutt, but his research findings would support a deregulatory agenda for air pollution.
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Light pollution is rising rapidly Artificial lighting at night is contributing to an alarming increase in light pollution, both in amount and in brightness, affecting places all over the world, a new study has found.
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Created by the startup Plume Labs, this project aims to raise awareness and create local conversations about air pollution — and it seems to have worked: Londoners, have we made you care more about air pollution?
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Chan-o-cha ordered government agencies to ramp up their anti-pollution efforts and simultaneously instructed private manufacturing and construction companies to reduce their output in a desperate attempt to quickly bring pollution levels down.
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The resulting data collected by O2O2 mask wearers can then be used to tackle the pollution problem in a given area, including determining which parts of town have the most pollution from day to day.
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In what became known as the Pollution Diet (the Diet is the national legislative body in Japan), the Japanese government passed 14 laws in quick succession that took a hardline approach to curbing industrial pollution.
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"The EPA estimates that these sites are responsible for at least 30 percent of all toxic pollution coming from industrial pollution," Frank Holleman, senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, told the Daily Beast.
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The department's paper-thin excuses about reallocating resources to focus on other pollution concerns were likely of little comfort to families and communities made more vulnerable to increased levels of air pollution that went undetected.
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Based on actual pollution data from four cities in China for 251 to 2700, he calculated the reduction in pollution to be between 0003 and 2000 micrograms per cubic meter of air, or ug/m270.
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Zero-carbon natural gas, with no air pollution (did I mention no air pollution?), would be an excellent complement to renewable energy and a cleaner path for countries now planning for more fossil fuel use.
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After comparing the preteens' recent traffic-related air pollution exposure levels, reported anxiety symptoms, and brain imaging data, the team found that children with higher levels of pollution exposure also reported more generalized anxiety symptoms.
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Air pollution caused more than 2000 million premature deaths in 2590, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mortalities are expected to continue rising.
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Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mortalities are expected to continue rising.
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Because the pollution is different in each city (cars might be the biggest offender in one place, while another has a problem with factories) clients can choose which city's pollution they want in their ring.
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"This disturbing study raises real concerns about the prevalence of plastic pollution: it really is present everywhere, not just the marine environment," said plastic pollution campaigner Emma Priestland from the charity Friends of the Earth.
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Supporters of pollution-trading markets promote them as a business-friendly way to help the Earth, often pointing to a successful George H.W. Bush-era program that helped slash acid rain pollution in the 1990s.
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Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution, as outlined in the Clean Power Plan, not only limits this major driver of climate change, but reduces other toxic air pollution from power plants at the same time.
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For much of the Western United States, reductions in air pollution, thanks to regulations like the Clean Air Act, have been stymied by increases in air pollution because of wildfire smoke, which makes people sick.
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Other suspected causes include air pollution, stress, genetic factors and infections.
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The health issues surrounding air pollution are longstanding and widely reported.
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These included reducing pollution, minimizing exposure and boosting access to healthcare.
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The pollution disrupted traffic over the three-day New Year's holiday.
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A 2010 survey found that agriculture causes more pollution than factories.
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That followed some 24 cities issuing red alerts for air pollution.
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Hydro said its own evaluations had found no evidence of pollution.
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The scientific consensus is that human pollution is driving these changes.
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Climate change The harmful effects of coal go beyond air pollution.
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Air pollution harms human health in two major ways, said Wexler.
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Should New York use congestion pricing to combat traffic and pollution?
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Sewage treatment plants are responsible for the biggest reductions in pollution.
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If so, CO2 emissions and air pollution will go up. Period.
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Governing air pollution has proved to be much trickier in India.
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"Outdoor air pollution is pretty much a governance problem," said Smith.
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Other circumstances, including the presence of pollution, may affect bacterial concentration.
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According to locals, the steelworks generates considerable pollution, affecting their health.
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From poachers to pollution, sea turtles face a range of threats.
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Hydro has said it found no evidence of any such pollution.
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Coal, along with gasoline and other fossil fuel pollution, contribute significantly.
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And that's not even talking about pollution or climate change effects.
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Air pollution is associated with increasing the risk of these cancers.
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Plume Labs has been working on pollution prediction for a while.
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There are a range of contributors to Asia's pollution, Barrett says.
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No matter what the source is, noise pollution is never pleasant.
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About 30 percent of cities tracked had decreasing levels of pollution.
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And, 3,000 cities in 103 countries are now tracking pollution statistics.
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But we also want, moving forward, for the pollution to stop.
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Assessing the risks associated with air pollution can be difficult, regardless.
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Third, cities should recognise that traffic and pollution are different problems.
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Pollution that is almost constantly over certain parts of our planet.
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The degree to which pollution harms the mind is less clear.
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It also failed to tackle pollution by livestock and poultry farms.
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Wair also looks pretty good as far as pollution masks go!
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When protecting yourself from pollution, it's all about structure and seal.
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Green shows good air quality; yellow and red indicate significant pollution.
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Go deeper: Florence's floods claim more lives, as pollution concerns mount.
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But pollution doesn't just slow down runners, it hampers workers too.
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Pollution, notably fertiliser run-off, damages a lot of marine ecosystems.
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This diesel pollution is not just unpleasant; it is also dangerous.
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Scientists have begun to expose a global horror show: microplastic pollution.
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Air pollution is NOT just a problem in Krakow or Poland.
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And it's important to be aware of air pollution, Thurston said.
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Plume Labs has been working on air pollution for a while.
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Diwali has created a persistent pollution problem in India for years.
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We will raise penalties on pollution from fossil fuel energy generation.
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There is no doubt that they are contributing to illegal pollution.
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Note also that the pollution level outside the car dropped significantly.
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After years of efforts to reduce excess light pollution, on Oct.
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And underlying that goal: Eliminate all net carbon pollution by 2100.
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Nor did levels of air pollution have any influence on it.
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Frontline said on Sunday there had been no reported marine pollution.
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It is true that some ways of cutting pollution are expensive.
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Air and water pollution are both made worse by global warming.
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The Exeter team believes the cause is light pollution at night.
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South Korea has long blamed China for much of the pollution.
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But a big problem could delay it still further: air pollution.
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Go deeper: Air pollution reduces average life expectancy by 2 years
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The recall occurred because the engines may exceed U.S. pollution limits.
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So if proper alternatives are found, plastic pollution could actually decrease.
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Many Okinawa residents associate the bases with crime, pollution and accidents.
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Hopefully these pollution reduction pledges will get MORE AMBITIOUS over time.
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"We all have a responsibility for reducing environmental pollution," he said.
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The largest cause of death in the E.U. is air pollution.
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It doesn't mean that anti-pollution measures don't work, says Lin.
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It's the latest move in a long-running fight against pollution.
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More trucks more gridlock, more double-parking, more noise, more pollution.
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Recently, however, the cost of independently monitoring air pollution has declined.
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Because of pollution, extreme storms are becoming more of the norm.
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Driving more electric vehicles is just the start to reducing pollution.
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It's the most important air pollution rule you've never heard of.
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Demirel's illustrations shift from pastoral scenes to images of deadly pollution.
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And air pollution also affects tourism and outdoor recreation, he added.
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Peru is rife with conflicts over water, land rights and pollution.
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VICE: Why did you put a pollution mask on Eros today?
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Air pollution now causes more than 4 million deaths a year.
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Silicon Valley exports high-tech disruption; Alberta's tar sands produce pollution.
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They need to talk about health and pollution, not climate change.
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Los Angeles is still the city with the worst ozone pollution.
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China's industrial pollution made it out here, but the jobs haven't.
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The clearing of forest by fire also contributes to air pollution.
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The tighter fuel standards are an attempt to tackle air pollution.
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And the island itself is not a major source of pollution.
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Air: The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering the air pollution standards.
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Congestion and pollution will return as the number of cars expands.
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Water pollution was a severe national problem that crossed state lines.
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India has struggled to get in front of its pollution crisis.
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From congestion and pollution to intertribal suspicion, the hurdles are many.
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But how unique is the Maldives' student awareness of plastic pollution?
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This panel advises the EPA on safe levels of air pollution.
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Another culprit for air pollution and carbon-dioxide emissions is oil.
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Reducing air pollution may take lots of money, time and compromises.
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This study does not provide evidence that air pollution causes autism.
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Its use was banned around New Delhi to rein in pollution.
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Sun exposure, cigarette smoke and pollution can also accelerate collagen breakdown.
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Rubin's practice focuses on air pollution; climate change law and policy.
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Sales in the sector have fallen sharply due to pollution concerns.
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Governments need to take aggressive steps to address this pollution crisis.
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Hydro reiterated that it found no evidence of any such pollution.
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To do so would require sacrificing growth to rein in pollution.
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection says the ban will cut pollution.
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The transition lets them couple zero-pollution vehicles with clean hydropower.
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UNICEF said negotiators should make air pollution limits a top priority.
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Pollution has infiltrated the food chain down to the jellyfish level.
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Urban Chinese are choking on pollution and confronting growing income inequality.
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Hong Kong also saw unhealthy levels of pollution over the weekend.
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The process also minimizes lint, an often overlooked cause of pollution.
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The U.S. already regulates greenhouse gas pollution from cars and trucks.
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This pollution already has contributed to 1 degree Celsius of warming.
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This goes against nearly all mainstream scientific research on air pollution.
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The city was known for having a brown cloud of pollution.
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Kate Brown's (D) effort to reduce air pollution, the Oregonian reports.
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Electric fine or trucks and our logistic suite to reduce pollution.
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Every city experiences different levels of UV, pollution, humidity, and wind.
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Critics argue it is also expected to increase greenhouse gas pollution.
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Here are the eight US states with the worst air pollution.
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Seven counties in the state received failing grades for PM pollution.
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Pittsburgh had issues with both short- and long-term PM pollution.
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Weakening protections of the law won't make air pollution go away.
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The city has promised compensation to firms closed on pollution grounds.
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Air pollution is an issue across the U.K. as a whole.
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Air pollution also appeared to take a toll even before conception.
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A punk teenager is definitely on the "Ain't Noise Pollution" side.
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So we're already inflicting huge amounts of suffering through air pollution.
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Air pollution makes the health effects of heat waves far worse.
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It's estimated 25 people die every day because of the pollution.
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Even healthy young adults may suffer ill effects from air pollution.
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The revelations kicked off congressional inquiries into the company's pollution standards.
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Meanwhile, Trump's E.P.A. has dismantled an expert panel on air pollution .
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"Protecting children from air pollution not only benefits children," Lake added.
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But Roman towns were small, not bustling areas full of pollution.
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But the nature of air pollution is that it is pervasive.
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"It's never been easier to cut greenhouse gas pollution," Duke said.
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You track the data and think about pollution all day long.
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Air pollution is killing more people than war, malaria or cigarettes.
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Runoff exacerbated by deforestation carries silt and pollution into the lake.
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But his plan would increase pollution and costs at the pump.
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It's clear: The solution to plastic pollution is in our hands.
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Global warming, air and water pollution, icecap melting, ozone layer holes.
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The idea aims to reduce gridlock, air pollution and pedestrian injuries.
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We believe micro-mobility will reduce pollution and mitigate climate change.
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The air pollution often associated with heat waves intensifies the problems.
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Flying buttresses had been darkened by pollution and eroded by rainwater.
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In the labs, the software dialed up a car's pollution controls.
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Crop burning creates a quarter of Delhi's air pollution in winter.
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Air pollution isn't causing all the dementia we see around us.
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Pollution was not the top concern for either Grassley or Burr.
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It would be a world with less traffic and less pollution.
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The nuclear authorities in Kazakhstan also denied responsibility for the pollution.
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