Typically, a public nuisance is just that: polluted air or water, say, or traffic.
At a time when contaminated waterways and polluted air threatened too many of our communities, John H.
The problems of putrid water and polluted air are largely but not inevitably the result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation.
More children are drinking polluted water and breathing polluted air.
Judge Batts makes these points in an 83-page pre-trial opinion for a class-action lawsuit filed by students, workers and residents of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who say they were exposed to hazardous materials and polluted air.
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The Global Times warns of "danger signals" after Chinese scientists find a "large number of toxic and hazardous particles" in polluted air samples from Beijing and Tianjin in January that are similar to deadly smog in Los Angeles and London in the 1950s.
Indoor air can be up to 10 times as polluted as outdoor air, triggering health problems such as asthma.
With lax environmental protections, polluted water and air kill and sicken people.
The report found that 22 of the 25 most ozone-polluted cities improved their air quality in the past year.
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Lichens are sensitive to changes in their environment, and scientists use lichens as a way of finding out whether air is polluted or clean.
"Toxins, bad air, polluted drinking water -- all these are the problems China is facing, " says Ho Wai Chi of the international environmental group Greenpeace.
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Up to 9% of deaths in the capital's most polluted areas are down to air pollution, a new London Assembly paper has reported.
Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.
And the air itself is so polluted you can damage your kids' health.
Its average incomes are dismally low, and much of its air and water is heavily polluted.
For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.
The organization's recent State of the Air 2012 report found that California is home to many of the country's most polluted cities, with Los Angeles continuing to top the list of ozone-polluted cities thanks to its heavy road traffic and trade ports.
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