According to Kim, pollution is one of the primary concerns on the local level.
Singapore's hawker centres started partly for hygiene reasons, and to keep our water pollution in control.
But it will also create new jobs, building and installing all sorts of pollution control technology.
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And will it be money well spent if the government's goal is fuel efficiency and less pollution?
That means higher electric and gasoline bills for consumers, who are, ultimately, the real source of atmospheric pollution.
Critics of the extension argue it will cause more pollution, increase health problems and fragment communities.
Opponents have said the plan would destroy valuable farming land and increase pollution and traffic.
Local authorities have recently forbidden bathing and nautical activities due to dangerously high levels of pollution.
Despite measures to cut lead pollution, most adults have substantial levels in their bodies.
It also ranked second-worst, behind Los Angeles, for smog levels, known formally as ozone pollution.
California, for example, estimates that 9, 000 people die each year from air pollution-related illnesses.
California has led the country in enacting stricter air pollution and tailpipe emission standards.
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Social-media criticism has been a crucial driver in the debate over pollution in China.
Adding to the company's problems now is something unrelated to pollution: the size of coal seams.
What was once considered noise pollution could soon become a green source of energy.
Brighton and Hove City Council also opposed the plan because of smell and air pollution concerns.
Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
The cost differential is driven by air pollution, interconnection and the economics of fuel efficiency.
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Increasingly, health research seems to be pointing to a need for stricter regulation of air pollution.
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The risk increases as off-shore pollution increases and as more people eat more fish including shark.
The pollution problem prompted Webasto to launch a campaign to raise awareness of the idling issue.
But it also illustrates just how intractable the issue of nitrate pollution has become.
It has slashed local energy demand, reducing chronic pollution and leaving more oil for export.
We're emitting less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years.
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And particularly air pollution, because it simply does not benefit air pollution using ethanol.
But now a study from Stanford University says ethanol pollution may be worse than gasoline.
They find grandeur and beauty in what many see as unsightly sources of pollution.
There has been no pollution so far but a potential danger from an oil spill remains.
Some recent innovations, such as tradable pollution rights and catastrophe bonds, have provided a public benefit.
The pollution began in 2003 with the introduction of ETFs that tracked highly-active stock picking strategies.
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