• For them, the growth question, the environment, pollution, the fate of the great globe itself, had become a cause of religious intensity, and the optimistic Mr Simon was a heretic to be put to the pyre.

    ECONOMIST: Julian Simon

  • And it includes the common goals of preserving the environment and reducing pollution.

    FORBES: EPA: Green Gone Wild

  • They can help the environment by cutting pollution.

    BBC: Electric plug in a Tesla Roadster

  • We're emitting less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the 2013 White House Science Fair

  • If you don't ease road congestion there will be more pollution damaging the environment.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | 'We all want better transport'

  • Neal pleaded guilty personally to breaches of environmental rules and also pleaded guilty on behalf of his two companies to depositing waste likely to cause pollution to the environment or harm to human health.

    BBC: Gwent Levels waste dumping: David John Neal pleads guilty

  • The Beijing News urges the environment ministry to stop treating pollution data as "state secrets" after it turned down requests to release the findings of a survey into groundwater contamination in 200 cities across the country.

    BBC: China media: Egypt accident anger

  • These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • Because much of the memorabilia will be produced in Asia and turned into garbage in America, it will increase the strains caused by Ameirca's worsening trade deficit as well as add to the pollution of the environment, both of which are undesirable in a mid-term election year.

    ECONOMIST: Stop that comet

  • Cities were considered a blight on the environment: energy-hogging, pollution-spewing, garbage-producing environmental hellholes.

    WSJ: How to Build a Greener City

  • Earlier this year the Environment Agency, Britain's pollution watchdog, proposed that tighter standards, originally due in 2005, be brought forward to 2001.

    ECONOMIST: Coal

  • Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said the road would cause more pollution, damage the environment and do little to boost the economy.

    BBC: Tree protester

  • Moreover, it is economic growth that has provided the resources enabling us to dramatically reduce pollution and improve the environment, without trashing our standard of living.

    FORBES: Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits The Poor, Working People, And The Middle Class

  • The reports said the proposal "would not give rise to any undue impacts with regard to pollution, the water environment, the amenity of nearby residential properties and businesses".

    BBC: Catfoot Lane crematorium project supported by planners

  • Third, I'm calling on Congress to consider a new program to provide incentives for consumers who retrofit their homes to become more energy-efficient, which we know creates jobs, saves money for families, and reduces the pollution that threatens our environment.

    WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth

  • You will never see a Ferrari electric because I don't believe in electric cars, because I don't think they represent an important step forward for pollution or CO2 or the environment.

    ENGADGET: Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo doesn't believe in electric cars, Santa Claus (video)

  • While a certain amount of mercury in the environment is natural, a growing worldwide pollution, especially of our oceans, appears to be increasing the risk of high mercury levels in some of the fish we eat.

    CNN: Beware of shark meat, FDA warns

  • At the same time, our environment is too dirty: Studies show that pollution (such as exhaust fumes) can trigger allergic flare-ups.

    CNN: Why your allergies are bugging you

  • Environment Agency officials have been looking at sources of pollution at Llangrannog, including visiting farm, s and are now concentrating on local sewage systems.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Mid | Beach fails EU water quality test

  • That is because cars produce local air pollution, which damages human health and the environment, and also produce greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming.

    ECONOMIST: Burning issue

  • It will streamline and simplify both the legislative framework and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's regulation of activities which cause pollution at a local and national level.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • She said Beijing Olympic organizers and Chinese environment authorities are providing the IOC with daily updates about pollution and weather, which can both have an effect on air quality.

    CNN: Pollution, Internet, doping dominate Olympics lead-up

  • Northampton MPs Sally Keeble and Brian Binley have called for a full investigation by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) into the pollution of the town's water supply.

    BBC: Schools still shut over water bug

  • Re-examine and streamline EPA regulations as we tax energy pollution, crafting a more logical approach to a cleaner environment that combines measurable outcomes with the transparent and accountable price signal from a carbon tax.

    FORBES: A Conservative, Small-Government Strategy For Fighting Climate Change

  • On Sunday, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn warned that Britain could not contemplate breaching EU pollution targets and said he was looking at air quality and noise concerns "in particular" during government consultation on the plan.

    BBC: Labour MPs urge third runway vote

  • Installing modern and widely-available pollution control technologies can reduce more than 90% of the mercury pollution that is harming both children's health and our environment.

    WHITEHOUSE: Energy and Environment Latest News | The White House

  • An earlier version of Nocton's plan was opposed by Britain's Environment Agency (EA), which was worried about the risk of groundwater pollution from animal waste.

    ECONOMIST: Industrial dairy farming

  • The paper, Air Pollution in London, produced by the Assembly's Health and Environment Committee, reports 8.3% of deaths in Westminster are attributable to man-made airborne particles.

    BBC: Nitrogen oxides

  • The pollution produced by burning petrol in cars imposes a cost on the environment and on human health, yet its price hardly reflects this fact: petrol remains cheaper than water in America.

    ECONOMIST: Stepping on the gas

  • Today, our air and water are cleaner, pollution has been greatly reduced, and Americans everywhere are living in a healthier environment.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- Earth Day

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