As an early environmental activist, I worried about my baby breathing the dirty air in New York City.
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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 afternoon pollution had set in and the air was a dirty shade of brown.
In the meantime, some cities have more to do to clear the, ahem dirty, air.
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.
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.
They usually air dirty laundry before the tamer mainstream press dares touch it.
They just have the fear that the air is still not good to breathe, and the roads are dirty, and they think they feed on radioactive food.
This, however, is the sort of dirty laundry that you simply do not air in public.
Mr. JOHN WALKE (Natural Resources Defense Council): The dirty little secret behind the Bush administration's air pollution agenda is to stretch out the time for power plants to clean up over the next two decades and to call that progress while eliminating clean air protections that would require them to clean up today.
More broadly, dirty water and air, and poor sanitation, are the biggest preventable causes of death.
Apart from admitting he was "hurt" by the manner of his City exit, he did not air any dirty washing in public.
Rootless but well-paid mercenaries could do the dirty work backed up by state-owned high-tech wizardry in the air.
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.
Makes sense--the U.S. and China have an abundance of dirty coal, rely heavily on oil imports and spew more greenhouse gases into the air than any other countries.
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.
Air pollution is another serious problem: the sky above the Strip is sometimes so dirty that you cannot see the mountains for the haze.
The lows are low: 20-bucks-a-night affairs with an air conditioner, dirty towels and roaches as roommates.
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.
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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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.
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