"The cost of renewable energy is up front slightly higher than conventional, but when you implement full infrastructure cost and the cost of environmental pollution you end up being the same or higher, " said McNeilly.
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Sir John is a former head of the UK Meteorological Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and co-chaired one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups.
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The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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The authors say they had to consider the implications for energy policy following a report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
The Deloitte analysts addressed pollution only in passing, but some environmental groups oppose exports on the grounds that they will increase pollution at home and abroad.
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At the same time, they are aware of the downside of the Chinese model of economic development, which promises fast economic growth, but more often than not, at the price of environmental degradation and pollution, not to mention other social problems.
The company has been working closely with Val Cameron, the island's shadow water regulator and director of environmental health and pollution, to put together the case.
Hydrogen has the virtue of removing the auto industry from the environmental debate, even if it creates the same or more pollution upstream.
Occidental Petroleum, for example, is involved in a major human rights and environmental contamination lawsuit regarding the pollution of indigenous land and the Amazon River.
For once, we believed that we would have what Hastings needed - and still needs - so badly, an infrastructure that would enhance people's lives and livelihoods, reduce environmental pollution and improve the health of those thousands of people who live on the A259 trunk road.
It is, the author argues, something similar to environmental pollution, where one person's action (or a company's) makes others worse off.
And he has also shown that it might be a good sign a so-called bioindicator of the effects of pollution near a suspected environmental hazard.
And we will continue to make sure that all is being done to plug the leak and to deal with the environmental and economic consequences of what that pollution has caused.
It is a future where we must strengthen our collaboration on critical environmental issues: cleaning up our air, land and water, fighting for environmental justice to relieve the burdens of pollution in poor and minority communities, protecting the planet we all call home and safeguarding the creation that has been given to us to steward.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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Beijing sees its problem of unsafe food and other exports as part of the costs of rapid economic growth, and which plays on concerns about public health, environmental pollution and tsocial unrest---a proxy for the legitimacy of the Communist Party's rule, which is being questioned by the emerging urban middle class.
Because the President and his Environmental Protection Agency has had the temerity to impose stricter air pollution requirements on fracking operations that were spewing dangerous methane gas into the air.
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The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
McAuley, a lay activist with the La Salle Christian Brothers, founded the Loreto Environmental Network in 2004 to support the indigenous groups in their struggle to end the pollution.
In these cases, pollution or environmental destruction is the result of an unnatural and reductionist vision which at times leads to a genuine contempt for man.
The worst pollution, the greatest dangers of environmental catastrophe, the most egregious disregard of the costs and risks that a particular action, a factory, a nuclear-power station imposes on other people have all taken place in dictatorships.
The data used came from a daily monitoring of pollution levels recorded from 2007 through 2009, as collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The NRDA process, authorized by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, only funds environmental-restoration projects and uses scientific research to assess spill damage and decide how to fix it.
Soil contamination has long been an issue in China, were rapid industrialization and lax enforcement of environmental-protection laws have resulted in the pollution of large swathes of arable land with a variety of heavy metals.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.
Vice President Bush targeted the pollution in Boston Harbor to question Dukakis' environmental record.
These "environmental sensor stations" would use the phone network to offer real-time and hyper-local records of the city's rain levels, pollution and other environmental conditions.
Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency were used to work out levels of pollution for addresses in California.
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