What surprised me is that no model currently quantifies this relationship between environmental pollutants and lung health.
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So far they have documented measureable effects from a host of environmental pollutants including pesticides, fungicides, dioxins and hydrocarbons.
Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible than other staple crops to environmental pollutants in irrigation water.
Evidence of oxidative stress can appear under other conditions, including exposure to certain environmental pollutants or infections in the urinary genital tract.
In fact large fish like sharks, tuna and swordfish feed on smaller fish and can accumulate high levels of environmental pollutants like mercury.
Putting the cart before the horse, the EPA issued preliminary clean up goals for dioxin on December 31, 2009 before the agency had completed a new risk assessment on the chemical, widely perceived as one of most toxic environmental pollutants (the assessment is due by the end of this year).
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When environmental activists claim air pollutants kill thousands of Americans each year and sicken still thousands more, their claims ring hollow when they oppose a cost-effective, environmentally friendly solution.
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It would also offer large environmental benefits because gas emits few conventional pollutants, and only about half as much carbon dioxide as the main transitional alternative: continued coal burning.
The operator should use an independent risk evaluator for weather and other environmental conditions like volcanic ash or even heavy pollutants which can effect helicopter operation and pilot visibility.
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But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.
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However, non-greenhouse gas emissions are not a significant problem, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports emissions of the Six Principal Pollutants have declined to less than a third of 1980 emissions levels.
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In the most publicized case, a 5-4 landmark decision, the court ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants and are thus subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.
In another sharp turnaround from the Bush era, America's Environmental Protection Agency ruled that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases were pollutants that posed a threat to public health, delighting greens and disappointing some business groups, which gave warning of the cost of further regulation.
First, Chinese authorities started enforcing environmental rules as citizens took to the streets to complain about metals in the soil, pollutants in the water, and soot in the air.
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The judge said the council had decided not to order environmental assessments but, at the same time, had ordered water quality testing to ensure pollutants were not contaminating the river.
The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.
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