They feel menaced by rising crime, dirty air, and now by spiralling prices for vegetables.
As an early environmental activist, I worried about my baby breathing the dirty air in New York City.
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Some consumer and environmental movements have flourished in rich countries, even though Olson's theory suggests that firms and polluters should have a strong organisational advantage over consumers and inhalers of dirty air.
More broadly, dirty water and air, and poor sanitation, are the biggest preventable causes of death.
Sure, environmentalists will insist that more drilling in the U.S. will just continue our addiction to fossil fuels and will dirty up the air and water.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
Our air is dirty, and in some places -- often where it is dirtiest -- there are no trees.
Apart from admitting he was "hurt" by the manner of his City exit, he did not air any dirty washing in public.
The experience of Deloitte, the first Big Four firm to suffer the ignominy of having the PCAOB air its dirty audit laundry in public may be instructive.
Facing steep legal bills, he sent a letter to Lennar's board of directors, accusing the company of "disgraceful" conduct and warning that he was prepared to air "dirty little secrets" about Lennar executives, Mr. Marsch says.
The lows are low: 20-bucks-a-night affairs with an air conditioner, dirty towels and roaches as roommates.
The afternoon pollution had set in and the air was a dirty shade of brown.
For a decade now, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using a provision of the Clean Air Act to force dirty, older power plants to clean up.
It's rarified air for a player known more for his dirty work in front of the net than his talent for finding the back of it.
Boilers burning dirty heating oils No. 4 and No. 6 produce 50% more air pollution than all of the cars and trucks in New York City and contribute to more than 3, 200 premature deaths every year, according to recent reports by the Environmental Defense Fund and the New York City Department of Health.
If we could go one step further and reduce air pollution in affected communities by cutting emissions from cars, trucks and dirty industries, the impact would be even greater.
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Air pollution is another serious problem: the sky above the Strip is sometimes so dirty that you cannot see the mountains for the haze.
You do not make the air any cleaner by decreeing that the green electrons are going to your house and the dirty ones to your neighbor's.
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