"I don't pollute air, I don't pollute water, I don't pollute food," Jacobs retorted.
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When you're talking about offline pollution, polluters who are actively trying to pollute obviously pollute.
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Businesses that pollute less than the cap can sell (or trade) their excess allowance to those that pollute more.
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"As long as it's free to pollute, people will continue to pollute more than we can afford," Searchinger said.
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The ground rules make intuitive sense: The more businesses pollute, the more they pay; the less they pollute, the more they come out ahead.
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Fake complaints likely do pollute and confuse the real ones.
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You don't want to pollute it with the wrong thing.
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Or does paying to pollute impose unfair costs on consumers?
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These bills effectively amount to a free pass to pollute.
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Visitors are forbidden to wear sunscreen, which would pollute the lake.
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Soulless corporations pollute the planet, overpay their bosses and gouge consumers.
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Musk believes that without sustainable energy, we'll pollute ourselves to death.
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Farm animals hog enormous amounts of land and pollute the water.
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And we need less factories to pollute the air with smoke.
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He's going to cancel the Paris agreement and let industry pollute.
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Scientists and environmentalists say chemicals from fireworks can pollute drinking supplies.
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The nine states require power plants to buy permits to pollute.
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If you emit, if you pollute, you have to pay the price.
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They also worry that any future leaks would pollute their water supply.
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Tribal leaders say the pipeline will desecrate sacred land and pollute water.
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Second, these stressed-out cells pollute the body, damaging healthy cells nearby.
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General Motors did its part to pollute the Flint River watershed, too.
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Its flavor was rich, but nondescript enough not to pollute the tea.
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I couldn't bring myself to pollute the ocean with a golf ball.
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It's big, it's brawny, but it doesn't pollute or hurt the environment.
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But still, others have continued to pollute the airwaves with misleading information.
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Another friend of decades estranges himself in words that pollute thirty years.
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He even managed to inject politics into, and pollute, the Boy Scouts.
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When burned, it forms sulphates, which cause acid rain and pollute the air.
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They could talk foreign affairs, and then pollute something on the way home.
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Pesticide and fertilizer runoff from farmland can also pollute what little is left.
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They said the plant could pollute the Yili River, an important water source.
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More than most kinds of documents, it's really intended to pollute the discussion.
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Near Pangong, tourists' litter is beginning to pollute the source of the Indus river.
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They claimed that a planned paper mill at Fray Bentos would pollute the river.
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So when clothes are dumped into a landfill, toxic synthetic fibers pollute water sources.
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Big cars aren't good for wilderness; they need roads and they tend to pollute.
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That insecurity not only holds people back, it can pollute office culture, Vaynerchuk says.
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Namely rooting out bot armies before their malicious propaganda can pollute the public sphere.
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Many Wawayanda residents have private wells, and a leak could pollute nearby drinking water.
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A plant-based 'plastic' that doesn't pollute Inspiration can come from some unlikely places.
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The demonstrators said the pipeline could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred tribal sites.
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Students consume, drink, pollute, drink, destroy, drink, smoke, cheat, drink, lie, sleep, and drink.
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Carbon markets force firms to buy "permits" that give them the right to pollute.
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Even state-of-the-art sulfide-ore copper mines consistently pollute their surrounding environments.
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Tempt the Dems to take this bait Pollute their Wave with fear and hate.
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When states want to pollute more, the Trump administration argues for the need for flexibility.
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As San Francisco's infuriated drivers cruise around, they crowd the roads and pollute the air.
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So, narcissists follow other narcissists on Instagram, and together they pollute your social media feed.
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The demonstrators said the pipeline could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred historic tribal sites.
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"If you believe in loving your neighbour, you don't pollute your neighbour's air," she says.
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It also reduces soil erosion, which can choke central Kenya's rivers and pollute drinking water.
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Companies move manufacturing plants to wherever they can pollute the most and pay the least.
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Some scientists estimate that up to 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute beaches around the world.
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Sure, why not; let him topple a government, but at least he won't pollute it.
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Fighting forest fires requires using thousands of tons of fires retardants that pollute water streams.
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Shipment Zero only commits to net carbon reductions, which allows us to continue to pollute.
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Tiny particles of plastic pollute drinking water consumed worldwide as well as the natural environment.
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Over time, the state would make fewer credits available, ultimately forcing companies to pollute less.
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And unlike gas-powered lawn mowers, the electric variants are quieter and do not pollute.
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Your friends are never going to excitedly pollute your Facebook feeds with these great works.
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Wehrum would be charged with leading Trump's efforts to deregulate industries that pollute the air.
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For example, those who ignore the effects of their pollution on others will pollute too much.
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The Houston Ship Channel's oil refineries pollute nearby neighborhoods, and locals say they suppress home prices.
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Governments are becoming more interventionist when companies pollute the environment or fail to pay enough taxes.
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Secondly, they pollute vastly less, even if the electricity is coming from coal-fueled power plants.
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Car importers want the government to crack down on used cars, which tend to pollute more.
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Modern commercial supersonic travel won't pollute any more than the subsonic business-class travel it replaces.
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They have the potential to remedy the mining industry's biggest problem: abandoned mines, which pollute waterways.
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He is ill-served by them because they pollute his powerful message and push people away.
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This may be no surprise when interest groups are trying to maintain their right to pollute.
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It's cheap to pollute if you don't include the costs of the damage on your books.
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People aren't trying to pollute when they do these things, so they don't call themselves polluters.
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Companies who want to exceed the level can buy the right from others who pollute less.
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They poison drinking water, pollute farmland (which in turn kills farming jobs), and wreck local environments.
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To avoid the tax, businesses and people gradually would shift to cleaner-energy sources that don't pollute.
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They pollute, and the water they contain will remain forever sterile, never mixing with the wider ocean.
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People assume they can pollute for free until the pollution builds up and becomes a serious problem.
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Current practices also drain the soil's nutrients while crops are drenched with chemicals that pollute fresh water.
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The technique has alarmed scientists and activists alike for its potential to pollute groundwater and cause earthquakes.
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Harvard Business School didn't create the extremely unequal economy we live in or pollute our natural spaces.
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Since then, as candidate and as President, he has found countless ways to pollute the national atmosphere.
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Opponents worry the development will pollute and crimp already scarce water resources in the country's arid north.
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The way that you can pollute a river and not care until it affects the drinking water.
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A citizenship question will pollute a data set that is foundational for businesses all over the country.
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Be skeptical when scientific progress is reduced to a Frankenstein-like fable engineered to pollute thoughtful debate.
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They fear it would pollute the Missouri River and harm sacred cultural lands and tribal burial grounds.
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At the same time, the most egregious lout gets to sit in and pollute the White House.
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It would bring tax-paying, profit-making industrial facilities that don't pollute into urban boundaries and budgets.
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Often I'd try to pollute the immaculate individual haftsin bowls with Cheerios and M&Ms, anything obviously American.
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Republicans will do plenty to pollute the environment, but Gaetz's bill won't sully anything but the political debate.
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Irascible headlines shout constantly, graphic images pollute thoughts; the innately beautiful parts of humanity can be hidden away.
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If, as in California's case, they want to pollute less, well, it's time for a little federal discipline.
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Choosing not to pollute those with dull, haphazard Live broadcasts from users could ensure Snapchat lovers stay loyal.
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The problem is that once driven outside the lab, under real-world conditions, vehicles tend to pollute more.
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On top of that, high level of nitrogen and sulfur continue to pollute air and soil deposits alike.
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More important, any suggestion that the election was stolen would pollute their paramount concern: the 225 presidential election.
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This unending uproar should help Americans recognize how U.S. interventions in foreign referendums can pollute local political waters.
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Industry groups and corporate polluters, however, took issue with requirements to seek permits to pollute our nation's waters.
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It also includes Internet personalities, campaign media advisers and Democratic and Republican strategists who pollute our cable news.
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But the decline reported by the scientists is hardly carte-blanche for marine industries to pollute marine life.
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Social media services and data brokers might argue that obfuscation tactics pollute the data flow, contaminating its integrity.
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Without as strong of a competitor, Facebook has more leeway to pollute the Stories user experience with ads.
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Industrial facilities also pollute the air and water, leading to cancer clusters and contributing to high asthma rates.
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Those that cut their emissions could sell permits to pollute to dirtier companies, ideally at a healthy price.
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Always, it means eating in such a way that doesn't pollute the place where the food is grown.
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These aircraft will also pollute our skies and, with their sonic booms, break the calm we all need.
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Levying a tariff for the right to pollute is not a mitigation strategy, nor is burning cleaner fuels.
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" Flaubert complains to George Sand that, according to a critic, "I pollute a stream by washing in it.
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People who care deeply about the environment can pollute as well, even when they're just living their lives.
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A 2017 study found that 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute beaches all over the world, National Geographic reported.
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Both produce far more carbon emissions than aviation, use huge amounts of water and pollute soils and rivers.
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Producing plastics fated to end up as litter is a waste, especially when these plastics pollute our oceans.
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Disgruntled residents say that noise from lawn equipment rattles windows and eardrums, while the fumes pollute the air.
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Year after year, its police have tightened the screws, ferreting out dodgy recyclers who pollute the Chinese countryside.
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Critics say such gestures are minor parts of businesses that overwhelmingly depend on an economy that continues to pollute.
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People are most worried about industrial development along the Russian side, as factory towns pollute waters shared with Norway.
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Ceferin, elected president of Slovenia's football federation in 2011, replied that his rival was trying to pollute the campaign.
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Singapore taxes cars based on how much they pollute, including pollution created generating the electricity used by electric cars.
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First, there's a reduction in the use of harmful chemicals that pollute lungs, permeate soil, and runoff into streams.
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"You're just cutting everything that would protect the environment or making it easier for people to pollute," Nackers said.
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Federal oversight solved the problem, at least for power plants, by limiting how much any one source could pollute.
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Environmentalists contend that the practice can pollute air and local water supplies, but the companies insist it is safe.
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Clean Water Act jurisdiction means that anyone who wants to harm or pollute the waterway needs a federal permit.
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Financial managers will have to disclose, for instance, investments in assets that could pollute water or damage bio-diversity.
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Some worry that if they're charged extra to operate in Washington, they could pick up shop and pollute elsewhere.
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This means not freedom to inflict harm (pollute, monopolize) but freedom from harm (climate violence, financial fraud, unsafe products).
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Under emission markets, power companies and others effectively pay for the right to pollute beyond a government-mandated limit.
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Make it more expensive to pollute, the theory goes, and companies will quickly find ways to reduce their emissions.
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Opponents say the project will damage burial sites considered sacred to the tribe and pollute the area's drinking water.
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"As of today, it's no longer free to pollute anywhere in Canada," Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on Twitter.
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"Emissions from power plants in surrounding states pollute Maryland's air and violate the law," Frosh said in a statement.
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Within three months, the number exceeded 10,000, putting at risk mom-and-pop operations that actually pollute very little.
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Burial consumes "valuable urban land" and can also pollute the air and soil with embalming fluids, separate research has found.
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Services that sell followers don't care if they pollute Instagram and ruin your experience as long as they make money.
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But it's also alarmed scientists and activists alike for its potential to pollute groundwater, affect air quality, and cause earthquakes.
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Cadwalladr called Albright for a story she was working on about how fake news and conspiracy theories pollute Google search.
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This will mean establishing pollution limits and moving away from dirty energy sources that pollute our climate, air, and water.
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Back in Britain, De Watts' team of air farmers continue harvesting away from roads which might pollute the precious produce.
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Mrs Clinton cast his proposed bonfire of regulations as an opportunity for corporations to pollute the environment and exploit consumers.
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Ahead, we round up 10 effective alternatives that won't pollute your lakes, rivers, oceans, fish, or bodies in the process.
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"She added: "Scrubbers are effectively cheat devices in that they satisfy environmental legislation, while allowing ships to continue to pollute.
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If one of your values is to be environmentally friendly, your widget factories will probably pollute less but cost more.
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Microplastics can pollute marine environments, leech chemicals into the water and pose harm to marine life if they are ingested.
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The idea behind e-scooter sharing is that it replaces, to some extent, the cars that pollute the city streets.
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Everybody's perception of a truck driver is we clog up traffic, we get in the way, we pollute the environment.
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The smoke has reached the lower stratosphere and crossed 9,000 miles of ocean to pollute the skies of South America.
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Net-zero carbon emissions means that some sectors could still pollute, but their carbon would be offset by other measures.
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Without the referee, some companies might pollute, or use toxic chemicals, or make it harder to reach your favorite website.
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"Examining fake engagement is important because accounts don't have to be fake to pollute the information environment," Ms. Bradshaw said.
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Fujimori has pledged stiff fines for miners that pollute as she seeks votes on a populist platform in Andean regions.
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Regenova is also scaffold-free, meaning the printer fabricates tissue without needing to add any extraneous matter that might pollute it.
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After more than a century peddling vehicles that pollute the atmosphere, General Motors is ending its relationship with gasoline and diesel.
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"The sun is plentiful in Africa - it's free, it does not pollute and will never run out of power," she added.
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These groups might have friends in high places, but make no mistake, what they do is pollute the mainstream with hate.
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It's a move that could pollute the EPA's scientific integrity, and suppress science that doesn't align with the reigning political ideology.
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However, SpaceX says it has implemented various design and system changes to ensure that the company doesn't pollute the space environment.
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It is notable because it included countries like China, which pollute heavily but have not signed on to climate deals before.
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Environmentalists say effluent from the plant will pollute the sea, killing marine life, coral reefs and mangroves that locals depend on.
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As if the need for emissions reporting was ever questionable, Pruitt has given companies free reign to pollute with plausible deniability.
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The best he can do is to let it pollute just a little bit more on its way out the door.
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The pipeline was, for instance, rerouted away from Bismarck when residents of the capital worried it might pollute that city's water.
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Conscious animals contribute to climate change and pollute water—increasingly with antibiotic-resistant bugs—and industrial slaughter could qualify as torture.
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Activists are worried that the pipeline could pollute this and the 2,53 other aquifiers within a mile of its proposed route.
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We can't let Pruitt pollute our clean water and throw away thousands of jobs because one mining CEO received special treatment.
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The $500 million offer moves all jobs overseas to factories that underpay their workers and produce emissions that pollute the environment.
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Major German carmakers, including Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, have been criticized for producing diesel vehicles that pollute more than rules allow.
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"Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute" is not entirely compatible with the Roman trait of "menefreghismo," the attitude of not caring less.
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Today's incels are almost entirely men and boys who pollute their online forums with posts blaming women for their sexless lives.
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You wouldn't expect an old-fashioned locomotive to do anything except pollute the environment, but Thomas is no ordinary tank engine.
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Since cars now run cleaner, VOCs today could pollute just as much as vehicles, according to one University of Colorado study.
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Garret Graves, who argued that the U.S. isn't culpable for climate change because countries like China continue to pollute with impunity.
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And that means industries can't pollute as they see fit — which often leaves polluters, and polluter cheerleaders like Pruitt, crying foul.
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But the dark side, or rather bright side, of these satellites threatens to pollute the sky with innumerable points of moving light.
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The Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation is just downstream from the pipeline's crossing, fears a leak would pollute the tribe's drinking water.
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Tribal leaders say the pipeline will desecrate land and pollute water, especially around the planned crossing through Lake Oahe, a sacred site.
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The administration should drop its senseless and harmful plan that would make cars pollute more and cost drivers more at the pump.
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There may be something of a commentary here, about how we try to protect, yet in the process, visually pollute the sublime.
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We actually have a case where we don't want to bomb the oil, because we don't want to hurt — pollute the atmosphere.
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"Companies should be on notice that we care when they pollute our air, our water, our environment," District Attorney Kim Ogg said.
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Proponents say plastic bags kill wildlife, pollute oceans and cause litter, and that the campaign is being waged by plastic bag companies.
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Tia Maria has been stalled for more than a decade due to opposition from farmers who fear it will pollute their crops.
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Some opponents of the Bayou Bridge are concerned that its construction will pollute drinking water and constrict drainage systems during heavy rains.
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We tear apart mountains and desecrate streams looking for minerals and oils to power factories and vehicles that further pollute and destroy.
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"My office will not tolerate attempts by any company to evade our environmental laws and pollute the air we breathe," he said.
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The Momtazis worried that cannabis cultivation in such close proximity would pollute their water, jeopardizing the biodynamic status, which goes beyond organic.
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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allies have argued that the project will pollute their water sources and desecrate sacred sites.
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The tribe fears the line could destroy sacred sites during construction and that a future oil spill might pollute its drinking water.
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Deforestation and fertilizer use, if they continue to worsen, will further pollute the oceans with excess nutrients, contributing to more algae growth.
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Ones that are cheaper and healthier, and won't pollute the environment or your body, using ingredients like coffee grinds or sugar scrubs.
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Though of course Twitter's stance won't fix the rest of a broken system where money continues to pour in and pollute politics.
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It would also stop exempting factory farms from anti-pollution rules and punish farms that create herbicide drift and pollute organic farms.
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Now, the Trump administration, and allies in Congress, are challenging that basic right to make it easier to pollute vital water resources.
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Next year, Mr. Xi plans to start a national program to force industrial greenhouse gas emitters to pay a fee to pollute.
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Tradition forbids women from entering the ring on the grounds that it is sacred and their presence, considered "unclean", would pollute it.
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Prosecutors alleged the six took part in a criminal conspiracy to pollute the oil network, which is owned and operated by Transneft.
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PHEVs are, of course, not as environmentally friendly as full EVs or fuel-cell EVs, but pollute significantly less than traditional cars.
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Its critics worry that it will damage the area's fragile marine ecosystem, threaten the livelihoods of fishing communities and pollute the air.
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Construction would strip shade from streams and pollute them with sediment, harming fish central to the Klamath's traditions and way of life.
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Companies either have to comply with the cap by reducing their emissions or buy permits that allow them to continue to pollute.
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"I find it hard to believe we couldn't waste less and eat better and not pollute the planet as much," she said.
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It is purely aggressive, a raw expression of defiance: I can pollute your air, for no reason, and no one can stop me.
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It should be revered, but every day we pollute it, strip it of its resources, and deprive it of the respect it deserves.
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"Only enterprises that have no clear survival value, pollute heavily and have no hope of being rectified will be shut down," Li said.
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Early in my scientific studies at Nebraska, most believed that humans could never pollute this massive globe enough to make a measurable difference.
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They also dispute the mathematical model used by Sinop Energia to argue that the remaining trees will not pollute the environment with methane.
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The tribe fears sacred sites could be destroyed during the line's construction and that a future oil spill would pollute its drinking water.
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The reality remains: Each year, the United States does more than almost any other nation to pollute the atmosphere and warm the climate.
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Indeed, the right to remain silent in our thoughts is perhaps even more important than the right to pollute the infosphere with misinformation.
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Again, Rubin literally created Android, so it makes sense that his company's phone wouldn't pollute it with unnecessary junk or an ugly skin.
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Slash-and-burn forest fires may be an efficient way to clear land for new plantations, but they pollute the air with haze.
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By allowing economic relations to pollute sexual relations, we make people miserable: marriage is a social machine designed to turn pleasure into property.
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Having businesses start to engage on there and use it to send you stuff could pollute that experience, if it's not handled correctly.
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His administration is filled with former corporate lobbyists, and they have been changing federal policy to make it easier for companies to pollute.
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We should be investing in a renewable energy infrastructure instead of pipelines carrying fracked natural gas that leak, spill, pollute, explode and kill.
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At the very least, journalists have a responsibility to avoid amplifying bad faith nonsense spread by corporations looking to pollute the public discourse.
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Environmentalists, religious groups and others have cheered the mine closings, saying that corruption has long given the mining industry free rein to pollute.
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However, industry long has argued against this arrangement, claiming that federal environmental regulation creates a right to pollute that trumps private property rights.
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"The countries that pollute the most did not live up to the challenge and remain in debt," he said in a subsequent tweet.
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Giving coal companies new freedom to pollute streams and utilities freedom to destroy the planet won't make any noticeable dent in the trend.
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Americans don't really have a sense of a right to bodily freedom the way they have a right to own guns or pollute.
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The finding has implications for the study of climate change, because rivers exchange greenhouse gasses with the atmosphere, especially when humans pollute their waters.
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It's a hell of a security flaw: Imagine, for instance, the ease with which someone might pollute the object-recognition involved in driverless cars.
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Then get rid of all the Russian bots that you've allowed to pollute our discourse and tear at the fabric of America's core. Please.
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"Revoking the CPP gives power plants a license to pollute," said Kevin Stewart, an advocate at the American Lung Association, a nonprofit health group.
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The atmosphere we breathe today was produced by billions of years of volcanic activity, so let's slow down when we say that volcanoes pollute.
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They have said they are worried spills could pollute water critical for grazing cattle, and that tax revenue and jobs will be short-lived.
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There are also billions of pounds of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used on all industrial foods which now pollute the globe and our bodies.
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If we take the path of least resistance and do nothing, we'll continue to pollute our planet and warm the globe to devastating effect.
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He compared it and Google to chemical companies in the 1950s that were "artificially profitable" because they could pollute the environment at no cost.
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And conservatives do not believe that regulating businesses in order to constrain their ability to pollute the air and water is a good idea.
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Trans Mountain has galvanized climate activists and indigenous leaders, who argue that the pipeline will pollute drinking water, injure wildlife, and displace native peoples.
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Despite producing more emissions during the production stage, electric vehicles still pollute far less than gas-powered cars over the course of their lifespan.
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The European Union's "cap-and-trade" system capped carbon pollution levels and created a market for companies to buy and sell permits to pollute.
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Officials hope the ban will decrease waste and encourage behavior changes as plastic waste continues to pollute the world's oceans and harm marine animals.
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But Rosia Montana's residents feared the mine would destroy their village and surrounding hills and farming lands as well as pollute the local environment.
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In the West Bank, some 60 million cubic meters of untreated sewage pollute the Mountain and Coastal Aquifers, streams and the Mediterranean Sea annually.
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It would similarly disregard recreational interests by allowing logging in riparian buffer zones that can pollute, and change the temperature of, prime fishing streams.
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Lots of it is philosophical opposition, the notion that there's something intrinsically offensive about "paying to pollute" or that carbon trading simply doesn't work.
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Other governments, including China and some individual states in the United States, are also testing different ways to force companies to pay to pollute.
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In response, President Trump has decided to make things worse — by rolling back environmental regulations and making it easier for polluters to pollute more.
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EQIP and CSP pays farmers and landowners to adopt practices that protect the environment, such as preventing fertilizer runoff so it doesn't pollute waterways.
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Therefore, there is a good reason to expect that the right to pollute argument will meet the same fate here that it has previously.
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Let's instead say, can we build the green version, the one that's both empowering and doesn't pollute our internal environment or our social environment?
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They were already under fire after several government studies showed that diesel cars, once promoted as environmentally friendly, frequently pollute much more than advertised.
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In that lawsuit, he was challenging the Cross State Air Pollution Rule, which, as the name suggests, regulates companies who pollute across state lines.
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Clean coal technology involves turning coal into a gas, then stripping out the carbon dioxide and burying it so it cannot pollute the atmosphere.
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The foundation also took aim at President Donald Trump&aposs administration for rolling back regulations on power plant emissions, which Baker said pollute the bay.
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Activists were also concerned the pipeline could pollute many of the 2,500 aquifers, key sources of fresh water, within a mile of the proposed route.
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The reckless abandon with which he uses his presidential platform to pollute the public discourse with falsehoods is a brazen and aggressive use of authority.
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These campaigns can pollute the online information ecosystem and enable people to hide important details about their lives from potential employers, customers, and romantic partners.
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But fake news still gets 63 million engagements a month — more than enough to pollute the information ecosystem to the point of making it unreliable.
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Our fear of germs leads to an overuse of antibacterial products that not only fly in the face of science, but pollute the environment too.
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After rinsing, the plastic beads pollute waterways and oceans, where they can be eaten by marine life and end up in the human food chain.
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But local residents fear the mine would destroy historic Rosia Montana, surrounding hillsides, and pollute the local environment with cyanide used in the mining process.
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With a federal law that puts a price on the pollution that is driving climate change, industries would no longer pollute the air for free.
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"These tactics are dangerous as they distort what we see online and pollute our social media environment, and need to be taken seriously," he added.
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Environmentalists say the plant will pollute the air, destroying mangroves and breeding grounds for five endangered species of marine turtles, fish and other marine life.
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Four of the world's biggest automakers opposed Trump's plan to let vehicles pollute more by striking a deal in California to curb their own emissions.
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Japan's government has argued that these coal plants use ultra-supercritical boilers that are vastly more energy-efficient and pollute less per unit of energy.
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The goal of the Interior Department's "stream protection rule" was to prohibit mining practices that permanently pollute streams, destroy drinking water sources and threaten forests.
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Meanwhile, Amazon offers services like same-day delivery to its customers—at great cost to delivery drivers and the communities that sprawling logistical operations pollute.
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It's typically composed of petroleum-based synthetics and plastics, which pollute our waterways with micro plastics and end up in landfills for centuries to come.
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These domestic grows pollute the environment and place visitors to such recreational areas at great risk, as cultivation sites are protected by heavily armed workers.
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" Plastic bags are "stubborn and toxic forms of waste," they argued, adding that "they never biodegrade, so they pollute our trees, oceans, and landfills forever.
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Wear bioglitter or none at all Festival goers love to wear glitter but it contains microplastics, which pollute our oceans and are eaten by marine wildlife.
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Flooding, which is expected to increase due to rising sea levels and changing weather patterns, can pollute water supplies and spread unsafe water across wide areas.
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A professor at Plymouth University, UK, recently stated that products containing glitter will "escape down the plughole and potentially enter the environment" and pollute marine environments.
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Petroleum-based plastic, he said, takes up space in landfills for over a lifetime, and eventually breaks down into smaller pieces of microplastics that pollute waterways.
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The Volkswagen scandal has called attention to the discrepancies between what diesel cars emit during official laboratory tests and how much they pollute in everyday driving.
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Allowing corporations to continue to pollute — affecting the health and safety of both their workers and surrounding communities — without consequences perpetuates an egregious abuse of power.
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"Russian space officials have been receiving complaints from astronomers and environmentalists that Znamya will pollute the night sky with unwanted light," the BBC reported in 43.
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The additional emissions funds will be far less for the 3.0-liter vehicles, in part because there are fewer and they pollute less, the sources said.
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Our eyes struggle because there are simply too many colours to take in at once, and this influx of colour can pollute and distort our vision.
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Political will from our leaders is required to hold accountable those that pollute, in the past and today, so that they pitch in their fair share.
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Although early 20th-century conservation created national parks and placed the national forests under federal control, corporations could largely pollute as they did a century earlier.
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Soil runoff can include manure and fertiliser used on farms, which may pollute drinking water and make people sick, said Philip Muthui, the company's production manager.
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Streamlining that determination is important to industries because certain activities that could pollute water, like filling ditches or moving ponds, might require an expensive federal permit.
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Streamlining that determination is important to industries because certain activities that could pollute water, like filling ditches or moving ponds, might require an expensive federal permit.
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Kenyan law says it's illegal to pollute the country's air and water, but it does not specify how a lead smelter must comply with those laws.
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From a travel enthusiast's point of view, that's a nearly free international flight; for a climate change activist, it's an unconscionable incentive to pollute the planet.
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Her handling of a drinking vessel was seen to pollute the water inside because she belonged to an "untouchable" Hindu caste that had converted to Christianity.
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"You can argue that if people in cities use less energy, the coal-fired power plants outside the cities would pollute the air less," he said.
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The Supermaché does everything a small car does except pollute and get stuck in traffic and, for me, that makes it the best choice for families.
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Instead, with the proposed Clean Power Plan repeal, the EPA appears to be granting power plants a license to pollute, at the expense of Americans' health.
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The Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes fear the pipeline could pollute the Missouri River and harm sacred cultural lands and tribal burial grounds.
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Unlined and clay-lined coal ash ponds significantly pollute air and water for human health and the environment according to leading public health and conservation advocates.
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But they do know this: Continued melting makes it more likely that the mercury will be released, pollute the ocean, and accumulate in the food chain.
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California's cap-and-trade program requires power plants, natural gas utilities, fuel distributors and industries to buy permits to pollute, which decline in quantity over time.
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So the cars were designed to ration AdBlue — and pollute more than allowed — unless software in the car detected the telltale signs of an emissions test.
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But fuel economy rules help govern what cars get built, how efficient they are, how much they're allowed to pollute, and where they can be sold.
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Let there be no doubt, if you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment or rip off the taxpayers, we're going to hold you accountable.
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The Tennessee Tech study, funded by Fitzgerald, found that glider trucks pollute as much as or even less than new trucks, contradicting the EPA's own assessment.
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The greenhouse gases that cause climate change also pollute the air, contributing to increasing rates of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic and acute respiratory diseases.
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For months, Native American activists and allies have argued that the 1,13-mile, $3.8 billion pipeline project would pollute the region's water supplies and desecrate sacred sites.
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For years, Beijing fought attempts by foreigngovernments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialized nations had.
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The ETS covers flights within the European Economic Area - which includes the EU countries plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - and requires industries to buy permits to pollute.
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In Malaysia earlier this year, a government crackdown found at least 148 unlicensed recycling factories that pollute local communities with toxic fumes and contaminate bodies of water.
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The pushback: Sioux tribes in North and South Dakota are still in federal court working to shut down the pipeline, which they fear could pollute water sources.
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What's certain is that without these federal protections, companies will find it easy to pollute waterways that supply clean water for humans, and key habitat for wildlife.
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When fraudulent in-app purchases pollute the economics of the game and allow some players to gain an unfair advantage, it ruins the experience for other players.
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Many African countries have banned GM crops, arguing that they will cross contaminate other plants, pollute the environment and could have long-term health effects for humans.
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The activists are here to fight a major pipeline that they say will poison their drinking water and pollute tribal lands that have long been held sacred.
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It's everywhere A lot of plastic products can be recycled, but the majority of them just end up in landfills and go on to pollute our oceans.
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She calls herself a civil rights attorney, but her campaign against Mr. Cosby builds on racial bias and prejudice that can pollute the court of public opinion.
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DEVA, Romania (Reuters) - "I pollute to death," said the message projected by Greenpeace activists onto the Mintia coal-fired power plant in central Romania late on Thursday.
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However, with an openly hostile deregulation agenda, Pruitt touted new "environmental policies" that allowed industry, coal-fired power plants, to pollute at the expense of public health.
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In addition, opponents say that the lines can interrupt farming operations, pierce the country quiet with humming or popping sounds and pollute the nights with a glow.
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"I think it is definitely related to the crackdown on production that will pollute the environment," said Helen Lau, an analyst at Argonaut Securities in Hong Kong.
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The project has long been lamented by residents in the southern region of Arequipa where farmers say the mine will pollute their fields and affect water supplies.
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Now when we do surveys, we find that people think it is unfair if the people who use the streets and pollute and increase congestion don't pay.
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It may yell about "freedom" — a rhetorical cover frequently used by administration officials trying to justify efforts to let industry pollute freely, regardless of public health consequences.
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"The more short-term political considerations pollute industrial strategies and the more the necessary tie-ups are put off, the more European industry will weaken," he said.
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But they do know this: Continued melting will make it more likely for the mercury to be released, pollute the ocean, and accumulate in the food chain.
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The software helped decrease emissions when the car detected it was undergoing testing, but would otherwise continue to pollute at amounts that were over the legal limit.
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When Mr. Sanders visited, he too spoke out against Amazon by pitching the Green New Deal, which would crack down on truck emissions that pollute the region.
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It's no surprise that they're undoing progress, proposing rules that pollute our air and water, curtailing and cutting critical research funding, and simply discrediting science and scientists.
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Though allegations of collusion are new, it was already clear that vehicles sold by almost all carmakers in Europe pollute more in everyday use than in tests.
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For the past three months villagers near the mine have been protesting SECMC's mining plans, saying the project will pollute their water and threaten their ancestral lands.
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The administration wants to allow coal-burning power plants to emit more deadly carbon and to give states greater leeway to allow big-money companies to pollute.
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This proposal would allow industry to pollute our environment without fear of accountability, because the politician leading EPA is telling scientists not to use the best science.
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" The Earth Race candidate would tell people every day: "You can vote for a man who wants to bring back cars that get bad mileage, lights that use more energy and produce more heat, power plants that produce more asthma, chemical companies that pollute more rivers, coal companies that pollute more air, mining companies that strip more pristine landscapes, and an economy that lags China in the next great global industry.
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Choosing this new option will be environmentally beneficial as well, as cremation releases carbon dioxide into the air, and traditional burial takes up land and can pollute groundwater.
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Now, officials are working to quickly remove the 11 bodies from Haew Narok, which means "hell abyss," so they don't pollute the stream, Thai news outlet MCOT reported.
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I have introduced legislation to hold top corporate executives criminally accountable if, as a result of their negligence, companies pollute the air or cause harm to our environment.
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The idea of employing plants, both unmodified and transgenic, to de-pollute the atmosphere inside buildings has been around for decades—but has met with only qualified success.
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It's going to be hot at these festivals so you're going to want an easy way to fill up and not spend cash and pollute by buying plastic.
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It's more about moving in the right direction and influencing the food industry to invest in options that don't pollute the planet and/or contribute to climate change.
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Trump's environmental EOs, for instance, are united by one thing: They are intended to make it easier and more profitable for the fossil fuel industry to pollute. Why?
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"The establishment of the new zone for sure will limit us further as we do pollute the environment to some degree," said Zhao Xiaodong, owner of Jitong Plastic.
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Member states of RGGI put strict limits on how much power plants can emit annually, but allow power plants to buy credits if they want to pollute more.
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Third, as a result of the above two effects, public tolerance of coal plants that pollute the air and mines that contaminate the surrounding water is quickly dwindling.
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Governor Burgum, a Republican, has said floods pose a safety threat and trash at the camp could pollute the Missouri River, but demonstrators say that fear is overhyped.
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China had fought previous attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialised nations had.
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For years, Beijing fought attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialized nations had.
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You'll have sex with your wife, but you don't want to do it anywhere that it's going to pollute things, because sex between men and women is polluting.
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China had fought previous attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions, claiming it should be allowed the same space to develop and pollute that industrialized nations had.
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Microbeads are bad for the environment because they pollute water with tiny bits of plastic that can wind up inside fish and potentially in food for human consumption.
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"Trump appointed her to defang regulatory agencies, gut regulatory protections and give corporations a free hand to pollute and pilfer, poison and profiteer," said Public Citizen's Robert Weissman.
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The announcement, however, will likely trigger fresh protests in the southern region of Arequipa, where farmers say the mine will pollute their fields and affect local water supplies.
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As long as corporations are allowed to pollute for free, the pursuit of profits will be a heavy drag on state and local initiatives to curb carbon pollution.
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While those plants are good at neutralizing sewage microorganisms that can make people sick or pollute waterways, they can miss chemicals that are linked with our changing lifestyles.
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The internet-borne forces that are eating away at print advertising are enabling a host of faux-journalistic players to pollute the democracy with dangerously fake news items.
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Rather than the siloed, unhealthy interdependency or unilateralism that they are now creating — where they compete for water, energy and food and pollute one another, and fall together.
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This will make it easier to pollute streams and fill in wetlands that safeguard our water supplies, reduce flood risks and provide for healthy fish and wildlife habitat.
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You might think that it's all about profits, that corporations want to be free to pollute and rip off their customers because it's good for the bottom line.
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We are simply asking that the EPA require these power plants that pollute Delaware's air to run their existing pollution control equipment when the plants are in operation.
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The U.S. government also intends to freeze mandates that ensure new cars pollute less and cut limits on the greenhouse gas methane that is released during oil production.
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Alqueva has faced environmental complaints, with green groups warning that the flooded areas would destroy wildlife habitats, while the intensive agriculture it encourages would pollute groundwater and soil.
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The Paris deal was seen as a major victory because it included countries like China and India, which pollute heavily but have not signed on to climate deals before.
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"These old cars pollute the country, and they cost a lot of money to import spare parts," says Constantinos Berhuetesfa Constantinos, professor of public policy at Addis Ababa University.
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In July 2011, Greenpeace launched a campaign called Detox My Fashion, which specifically looks at the hazardous chemicals created by the garment industry that pollute the global water supply.
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Taxing carbon pollution and slashing fossil fuel subsidies, for example, would help us detox from the dangerous and dirty energy sources that pollute the air and raise global temperatures.
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Clay is a natural substance — it doesn't pollute — and works by dragging the algae down to the bottom of a body of water, and essentially destroying or burying it.
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Trump says the Paris deal unfairly puts constraints on the United States coal industry, and unfairly allows some countries to continuing to pollute at a greater rate than others.
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" Shortly after releasing the song at midnight on Friday, McHale revealed that it was "my fav song from my EP, and I'm ready for it to pollute your ears.
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Campaigners say World Bank-backed fossil fuel investments in the Amazon will pollute the rainforest, hurt indigenous land rights and contribute to climate change rather than help curb it.
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"This seems like a good measure because you avoid continuing to pollute the streets and the community," said Victoria Gomez, a 42-year-old secretary in downtown Panama City.
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The Harley-Davidson settlement resolved allegations that Harley sold about 340,000 "super tuners" enabling motorcycles since 2008 to pollute the air at levels greater than what the company certified.
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They argue that the pipeline, which is intended to carry crude oil from North Dakota to a refinery in Illinois, could pollute water supplies and destroy culturally important land.
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While a lot of plastic can be recycled, most of it never makes its way to the recycling bin — instead it ends up in landfills that pollute our waterways.
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Big business doesn't like a state like California dictating how much American industry can pollute—which is why Trump wants to end California's powers under the Clean Air Act.
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And some of them are making a coldblooded calculation that the demise of democracy is worth it if it means lower taxes on the rich and freedom to pollute.
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Automaker groups say the Obama-era rules fail to take into account the rising demand for larger vehicles, which pollute more and make progress on overall emissions more challenging.
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There's preliminary evidence that retrofitting school buses to pollute less improves kids' test scores, and that's hardly surprising — the effects of air pollution on brain development are well established.
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Their thin plastic breaks down into smaller plastic particles known as microplastics, which pollute the oceans and are ingested by animals and, later down the food chain, by humans.
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The brewers have weighed in on the case because they believe a win for Maui could make it easier for big businesses to pollute the nation's rivers and streams.
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Along with attorneys for the Trump administration and business groups, Maui has said that requiring a federal permit to pollute groundwater would vastly extend the reach of U.S. regulators.
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And many suggest the billions of dollars spent on trying to capture carbon would be better directed to the technologies that don't pollute the atmosphere in the first place.
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The Obama administration instituted the ban in 85033 amid fears by American Indian tribes and environmentalists that uranium mining would pollute the Colorado River and the nearby Grand Canyon.
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But the Canadian company faces fierce opposition from people on the Chilean side, who say the project will pollute and crimp already scarce water resources in the country's arid north.
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Meanwhile, the firm continued to pollute, failed to file required reports in 2003, 19673, and 2005, and was fined more than a hundred thousand dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The lawsuit said the pipeline is a common law public nuisance and violates the Michigan Environmental Protection Act because it is likely to pollute water and hurt other natural resources.
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"At the same time, I particularly want to emphasize that the impact from this ammunition does not pollute the environment in any way compared to a nuclear munition," he added.
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Cornejo and other Tia Maria opponents fear the project will interfere with farming and pollute water supplies, remaining opposed even after Southern Copper made plans to build a desalinization plant.
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Indonesia's archipelago of more than 17,000 islands has struggled to cope with waste, with much of it going into landfill and often eventually seeping out to pollute rivers and oceans.
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But the idea that every Muslim is in fact a sleeper waiting to pillage and pollute the Christian West gets a sympathetic hearing in the highest office in the land.
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The start of this open-pit mine threatens to pollute the air and nearby water supplies with toxic metals, in a region that economically depends on outdoor recreation and tourism.
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"It's time to wake up and fight back against giant corporations that want to pollute our environment and ask taxpayers to clean up the mess," Warren said in a statement.
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Pollution kills three times more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis put together and yet Pruitt is making it easier for automakers to pollute and American citizens to get sick.
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In the December program, volunteers will collect snow samples and study the extent to which microplastics — small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment — have made their way to Antarctica.
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The December program will have volunteers collecting snow samples and studying the extent to which microplastics — small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment — have made their way to Antarctica.
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"It can pollute the lands and waters in the areas where it's cultivated, as well as poison wildlife through the use of pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and petroleum fuels," Carah said.
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The Stream Protection rule requires companies to avoid mining practices that could pollute streams and drinking water sources, restore streams, and promise to return mined areas to their original form.
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Li Xinchuang, the deputy chairman of the government-affiliated China Steel Association, said Chinese production could continue undiminished if the industry simply closed excess, outdated steel foundries that pollute more.
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The union and its ally, an association for independent drivers, argued that Mexican truckers would cause fatal accidents, pollute the air with old big rigs and steal jobs from Americans.
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The science of global warming has been settled for 40 years, but we have not just continued to pollute, we have accelerated the rate at which we've been doing so.
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Our qualitatively disparate but similarly visceral, uncomfortable, devastating pain is our culture's Medusa: We refuse to look it in the eyes, afraid doing so will immediately refract, pollute, infect us.
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The company has been hit by a wave of lawsuits and penalties after revelations in 2015 that it illegally used so-called defeat devices to pollute more than was allowed.
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Those health concerns never swayed the major fast-food companies, but a viral British petition arguing that the toys "harm animals and pollute the sea" has made a stronger impression.
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Rolling back these standards will mean dirtier cars that pollute the air and jeopardize the health of millions of Americans, especially the over 26 million Americans who suffer from asthma.
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But that does not give them license to further pollute the debate with misinformation and flawed analysis paid for by oil companies and designed to undermine public support for biofuels.
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But he also pilloried the Supreme Court for carving out so-called sovereign immunity — a right-wing shibboleth — which empowered states to discriminate, pollute or otherwise conflict with congressional mandates.
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Consequently, neonics now pollute large portions of land and water across the country, also turning up in tap water as the chemicals are not removed by conventional drinking water treatment.
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While the radioactivity spread by such a device is unlikely to be lethal, it would create huge panic and pollute a vast area that would be very expensive to decontaminate.
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Buttigieg slams July 4 military parade: I think it makes America 'look smaller' MORE (D-Minn.), who is among Democrats who fear mining could pollute water sources in the region.
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Comparing the U.S. and China to sailboats, Graves asked Thunberg whether she would be upset if, while cleaning up trash in the ocean, another person at sea continued to pollute.
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His strategy did not just pollute the truth, but used an official agency to do so, threatening the governing credibility that is at the root of any successful democratic system.
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In a tacit admission that older vehicles pollute too much, Daimler, Volkswagen's Audi division and BMW have announced plans to upgrade software on diesel vehicles across Europe to reduce emissions.
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"These numerous flaws pollute the entire Indictment and are so inextricably linked with the Indictment as a whole that dismissal is warranted of all of the counts," Schock's attorneys wrote.
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"Here's an area where maybe you need some more government regulation -- not just 'get out of the way of the private sector and let them pollute whatever they want,'" he said.
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Shipment Zero only commits to net carbon reductions, which allows us to continue to pollute; we recently ordered 20,53 diesel vans whose emissions will need to be offset with carbon credits.
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Transitions, while not an explicitly political exhibition, surely takes a position on the issue of climate change compensation: developed countries that pollute should, at absolute minimum, pay to mitigate their effects.
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Shipment Zero only commits to net carbon reductions, which allows us to continue to pollute; we recently ordered 20,000 diesel vans whose emissions will need to be offset with carbon credits.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain should pressurize fashion brands to design clothes that pollute less and are easier to recycle to reduce fast fashion's environmental impact, experts told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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He notes, correctly, that Chinese firms pollute the environment more freely and employ workers in far worse conditions than American rules allow, and produce exports which often benefit from government subsidies.
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One startup claims it will offer brands the chance to pollute our night skies with a system of teeny, reflective satellites used to replicate the logos and messages of paying clients.
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The European Union's market for carbon credits, essentially tradeable permits allowing industry to pollute, has suffered from excess supply since the economic crisis, depressing prices and heightening the need for reform.
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By the Farm Bureau's logic, they can pollute your water, so long as they contribute to a fund to buy bottled water, and you can't hold them legally responsible for it.
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Fake news and false narratives that feed on fear and are perpetrated by those who want to undermine our diverse and vibrant democracy will continue to pollute our interconnected digital world.
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The basic problem conservatives have with the EPA is that it's an agency whose mission is to regulate businesses in order to constrain their ability to pollute the air and water.
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For much of the argument, the justices pressed both Maui and the Trump administration on the possible circumstances in which a business could pollute the nation's waters without needing a permit.
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Instead, companies are trying to spur the federal and state governments to allow them to charge more, in exchange for a power source that does not pollute and is very reliable.
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"Automakers are asking him to let them guzzle oil and pollute more and increase our oil addiction," Daniel F. Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign said, referring to Mr. Trump.
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They fear that waste from the project would pollute and harm streams that flow into Bristol Bay, which hosts the largest salmon fishery in the world, among other ecologically important features.
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"We are simply asking that the EPA require these power plants that pollute Delaware's air to run their existing pollution control equipment when the plants are in operation," the governor said.
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Stefanski advocates carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes―government taxes on users of fossil fuels and mechanisms to cap firms' pollution while allowing them purchase and trade permits to pollute.
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When they advise the poor to breed less it's because they worry that those people's children will consume the water and breathe and pollute the air of their own precious kids.
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The government of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the European Union are also guilty of tolerating gaping loopholes in European regulations that allowed automakers to pollute with impunity in Europe.
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He argued that each approach created its own ambiguities: Levying a tax makes it easy to predict the cost of the policy, but not how much companies will continue to pollute.
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As part of a sustainability push in recent years, Walmart has also worked with suppliers to reduce the amount of fertilizer used to grow crops because it can pollute the environment.
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She said she's modeling the proposal on existing laws that impose criminal liability on executives if, because of their negligence, their companies sell drugs with improper labeling or pollute the air.
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"It's also about showing what a strong E.P.A. enforcement presence means for those who may break the law," Ms. Giles said, highlighting the agency's record of pursuing those who pollute illegally.
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The environmental impact of Euro 2020 will be much greater due to the unique pan-European staging of the event with UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin saying it will "pollute a lot".
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Those who suffer from water contamination at Camp Lejeune do not receive full benefits and the veterans of the toxic chemicals that pollute the remains of Fort McClellan are simply ignored.
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The transnational, e-waste trade is now in total disarray — and amid the chaos, brokers are fanning out across Asia, seeking new territory to exploit the weak and pollute the skies.
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And the buses themselves would run on renewable energy which won't further pollute the air in the immediate area, which has some of the worse air quality in New York City.
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Like Dakota Access, the Keystone XL Pipeline had been the subject of environmental concern from activists, residents and indigenous tribes who worried that the pipeline would pollute as many as 2,500 aquifers.
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"Many people are trying to pollute the minds of the voters by talking about polarizing issues," said Abdul Faheem Qureshi, a Muslim lawyer and community leader in the southern city of Hyderabad.
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The failure to maintain best practice management of four risk indicators alone means that an ISP can pollute the internet as a whole, exploited by botnet and distributed denial of service attacks.
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Access to the Amulsar mine operated by Lydian International has been blocked since last summer by locals and activists worried that it could pollute local water sources and cause irreparable environmental damage.
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The basic premise of cap and trade is that each year a certain amount of allowances, or permits to pollute, are made available by a mix of free allocation and quarterly auctions.
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Apple says that its largest test chamber is one of the biggest in the US, on a pad, suspended from the outside world with nothing to pollute its tests of audio purity.
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The EU ETS - a "cap and trade" system which requires industries to buy permits to pollute - covers flights within the European Economic Area, which comprises EU countries plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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We now know such VW diesel cars pollute 50 times more than advertised (6-7 times above the European standard) and are responsible for an estimated 100,85033 deaths in Germany per year.
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CRITICS SAY EPA HELPED PENTAGON WITH POLLUTION RULE: Critics say an Environment Protection Agency (EPA) proposal would weaken the Pentagon's obligation to deal with harmful chemicals that pollute groundwater near military bases.
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Some argued offsets should be off the table in a Green New Deal, claiming they are a license to pollute, don't offer tangible emissions reduction, and can be exploitative toward developing countries.
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If the primary activities hit with high rates were unpleasant — pollution is an example — then thankfully taxes would not only bring revenue to the treasury but also induce people to pollute less.
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Shipment Zero only commits to net carbon reductions, which allows us to continue to pollute; we recently ordered 20503,22050 diesel vans whose emissions will need to be offset with carbon credits [23].
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" Pierce also said she was skeptical of free enterprise solutions advocated by conservative environmental groups like republicEn, which she said sounded to her like "we have to pay them not to pollute.
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It's going to create a mad scramble in which the winners are those willing to pollute, cheat, and curry political favor — just the sort of business environment wannabe autocrats like Trump enjoy.
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But the canal, like many other infrastructure mega-projects built under Erdogan's 17-year rule, has been criticised by opponents who say it will wreak environmental havoc and pollute fresh water resources.
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Along with his fellow Green Warriors, Mr. Oddekalv argues that the scale of fish farming in Norway is unsustainable, and that huge volumes of uneaten feed and fish excrement pollute the seabed.
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Studies undertaken for opponents of mining have concluded that the highly toxic waste from a single mine in the wilderness area's watershed could continuously pollute the Boundary Waters for hundreds of years.
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His analogy of choice was logging: A long time ago logging entities discovered and harvested a resource at scale before anyone else and one of their advantages was the ability to pollute.
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" As he opened the Senate on Monday, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats for "letting their domestic political grievances pollute their judgment of world affairs" and praised Trump's "bold action.
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Nodding to his "America First" agenda, the president cautioned his foreign counterparts not to pollute his efforts to level the field of international trade and said his top priority is U.S. workers.
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The European Union's market for carbon credits, essentially tradeable permits allowing industry to pollute, has suffered from excess supply since the financial crisis, depressing their prices and heightening the need for reform.
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This move by the Trump administration will not only pollute our air and put lives at risk, but will also force consumers to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on gas.
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Back then, it just couldn't wait to get the Chevy Volt into production, and it promised it was going to be a responsible partner in cleaning up the environment it helped pollute.
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"Once again, the Trump administration's attempts to waste our natural resources and pollute our communities has come up short in the courts," Lauren Pagel, policy director at Earthworks, said in a statement.
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Natural gas, oil and coal help supply the electricity to pump clean, running water to our homes and allow us to operate wastewater and sewage plants so we don't pollute our rivers.
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In those early days, some of the references to triple-double in The Times were in quotes, as if editors were afraid that the new term would pollute the newspaper's august pages.
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Diesel cars, no longer popular in Europe, are definitely a pariah in the US. Americans never warmed to them, and VW's scheme to dupe millions of customers and pollute the planet didn't help.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access project has drawn opposition from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe as well as environmental activists who say it could pollute water supplies and destroy sacred historic tribal sites.
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Control equipment at some of the largest and dirtiest power plants sat idle because it was cheaper to pollute and buy allowances than to take the energy penalty associated with running the equipment.
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And Trump's various rollbacks of environmental health and safety have had little to no effect on expanding industry -- but are expected to pollute air and water, especially in communities where Trump voters live.
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The tribe wants more stringent rules to ensure that nearby mines don't pollute its water supply with waste runoff and that a nearby coal-fired power plant has the proper air pollution controls.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the tribe, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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It's both unrealistic and disingenuous to suggest that a green, clean energy revolution for the planet can occur without dismantling the structures that allow corporate interests to pollute democracy in the first place.
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The settlement resolves government accusations that Harley sold roughly 340,000 "super tuners," enabling motorcycles since 2008 to pollute the air at levels greater than what the company certified to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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It would encourage the slow-walkers and grifters, the companies that plan to pollute as much as they can until they day they're forced to stop, the ones substituting lobbying muscle for innovation.
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Mr. Wheeler's signature officially sets in motion one of the Trump Administration's most significant rollbacks yet of former President Barack Obama's climate change legacy, alongside an earlier decision to let automobiles pollute more.
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"This could drive up the recycling of an estimated three billion plastic bottles which are currently incinerated, sent to landfill or left to pollute streets, countryside and the marine environment," the ministry said.
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" Additionally, the senator vowed to tighten bankruptcy laws to prevent coal and other fossil fuel companies from "evading their responsibility to their workers and to the communities that they have helped to pollute.
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The government cannot force carmakers to pay for hardware upgrades but it shares an interest with the industry in preventing further driving bans for cars that pollute more, which Hamburg has already imposed.
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We really don't want to change, and instead prefer to dream science will clean the seas, soak up the carbon, make endless smart energy, or let us fly off and pollute Kepler-452b.
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"A large percentage of the population is Latino and low-income, and they're living around this coal plant that is essentially non-functioning but still continuing to pollute and toxify the air," Ferrera said.
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Tia Maria opponents say they fear the mine would interfere with farming and pollute water supplies, even though Southern Copper says it plans to build a desalinization plant to ensure the environment is protected.
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As for the protest, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has led the charge against the 1,000 mile oil pipeline claiming a possible spill could damage important Native American cultural sites and pollute drinking water.
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But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half-mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.
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The proposed mine, which would take two years to build and would produce around 120,000 tonnes of copper per year, was derailed in 2015 by protesters who feared it would pollute a farming valley.
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His appointment is a defining moment that could lead to an entire generation suffering the consequences and open doors for corporations to legally pollute, poison and destroy our air, our water, and our communities.
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The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Caddo Lake Institute said recent legislation in Texas pushes the state below the minimum requirements for granting permits to facilities that could pollute the air or water.
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Instead of allowing vehicles to pollute more, the EPA should be adopting standards that promote even greater fuel efficiency in order to protect the health of our communities and promote cleaner modes of transportation.
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"Everything I do and don't do today, to pollute or stop polluting, changes what lives and dies on the planet for the next 203 years — in a very specific, particular way," he told me.
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What followed was a regionwide system that sets a declining cap on emissions from large power plants — about 170 in total — and requires individual power producers to buy permits from state governments to pollute.
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Though they did raise federal mileage standards, the rule makers rewarded companies that built bigger vehicles by setting standards matched to vehicle size, with large cars allowed to burn more gas and pollute more.
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Mr. Carder said he did not know why the Grand Cherokee appeared to pollute less than the Ram pickup, but he said it would be normal for different vehicles to have different software configurations.
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Studies by the French, British and German governments have established that diesel vehicles by virtually all carmakers pollute far more on the road than in the carefully controlled conditions of an emissions testing lab.
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It also established a time frame of 22019 years for the removal of all the unexploded ammunition and bombs that pollute and threaten peoples' lives, both on the land and in the nearby seabed.
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Palma led a team of engineers who developed diesel engines and calibrated them with software allowing the vehicles to pollute less when undergoing government testing and more when driven on roads, U.S. officials said.
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Never mind whether slashing taxes on billionaires while giving scammers and polluters the freedom to scam and pollute is good for the economy as a whole; it's clearly good for billionaires, scammers, and polluters.
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Palma led a team of engineers who developed diesel engines and calibrated them with software allowing the vehicles to pollute less when undergoing government testing and more when driven on roads, U.S. officials said.
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Obama's emission standards spurred the U.S. auto industry to catch up, and now Trump wants the companies to slow down their innovation and pollute more, in order to drive up their short-term profits.
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Claire Simonin-Le Meur, president of the environmental group Ar Viltansoù, told the Washington Post that if this was the case her group was worried the plastic from the phones would pollute the ocean.
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Since so many chemicals pollute our larger environment, not just our foods, even if you avoid all packaged and processed foods (a near impossibility), you're still exposed to these chemicals in our environment every day.
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We pollute the night skies with light that disorients hatchling sea turtles and migratory birds, sends thousands of moths into a tailspin ending in death by exhaustion, and shifts the birthing cycles of tammar wallabies.
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The development of the Corrib gas field, discovered in 1996, has faced protests since 2005 by residents concerned that the laying of a high-pressure pipeline to bring gas onshore could pollute their water supply.
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Furthermore, it would prefer if the world forgot all about Dieselgate—you know, when the company sold 11 million cars all over the world designed to cheat emissions tests and pollute far beyond legal limits.
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The Standing Rock Sioux, which contends the pipeline would desecrate sacred sites and potentially pollute its water source, vowed to shut pipeline operations down if construction is completed, without elaborating how it would do so.
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Thousands of activists have been camping out in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's objection to the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, which they say would cut through tribal land and could pollute drinking water.
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Despite multiple warnings and signs put up at a popular scenic spot in Yantai City, in Shandong, China, Chinese tourists continue to pollute the pond by throwing dollar notes in to wish for good luck.
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The WOTUS rule was intended to reduce the number of punitive suits filed against anyone intending to pollute a waterway, by making it so companies must first apply for an EPA permit to do so.
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They reviewed more than 50 existing studies looking at how often microplastics—small particles of plastic, often broken down from larger fragments of plastic, that pollute the environment—end up in our food and water.
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Mining the metal creates toxic byproducts that pollute the soil and water and the refining process to turn it into a can uses a lot of electricity, disrupts natural waterways and can wipe out forests.
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Polluters can pollute more, scamsters can scam more, bankers can go back to running the risks that blew up the global economy, and no legislation that would impair the privileges of the powerful can pass.
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But consumers are becoming more and more interested in socially conscious businesses — businesses that pay employees well, don't pollute and even actively clean up the environment, and that operate with a sustainable future in mind.
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Nor did they envision that even the threat of sanctions might pollute the diplomatic atmosphere or threaten some of the goodwill built with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the past four years.
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But speaking at an event of the youth wing of her conservatives, Merkel also said car makers had "lied and cheated" by selling diesel cars that pollute more than the industry had said they would.
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While Abbott may not have been axed because of his energy policy, there is little doubt that his plan to reduce emissions by paying polluters not to pollute as much was largely an expensive farce.
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So let me say this to the men and women who run our country's corporations: If you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment, or rip off taxpayers we're going to hold you accountable.
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Experts are divided on the extent to which vehicles are responsible for Indian urban pollution, but several have called for a ban on diesel vehicles because they pollute more than petrol-fuelled cars and motorcycles.
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The plan also encourages states to reduce emissions by putting in place "cap-and-trade" systems, which would create state or regional caps on emissions and allow companies to buy and sell credits to pollute.
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The pattern was repeated in 2009, when President Barack Obama tried to push Congress to pass a so-called cap-and-trade bill, which would have required carbon polluters to pay for permits to pollute.
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The practice of storing waste in these lagoons and then applying it to fields has been widely criticized by environmental groups like the Waterkeeper Alliance, which point to studies indicating that they pollute local waterways.
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Businesses could then buy and sell permits to pollute, choosing whether to invest more in pollution permits, or in cleaner technology that would then save them money and allow them to sell their allotted permits.
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Coca-Cola has experienced its own such debacle in India, where farmers and activists have voiced repeated concerns that the company's bottling plants could erode groundwater levels, undermine local agriculture and pollute neighboring water bodies.
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The two bills that will begin moving through the legislature on Tuesday include a program aimed at cutting pollution in some of the state's dirtiest neighborhoods, as well as higher penalties against companies that pollute.
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In addition to the rules on methane emissions and labor law violations, House Republicans are expected to target a rule that strengthens the permitting requirements and monitoring of coal mining operations that could pollute streams.
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The seeds, in turn, produce plants that are immune to the herbicides and pesticides that the same companies produce, encouraging farmers to use toxins that kill off beneficial plants and bugs and pollute the earth.
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The Standing Rock Sioux, which contends the pipeline would desecrate sacred sites and potentially pollute its water source, vowed to shut pipeline operations down if construction is completed, without elaborating how it would do so.
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The settlement resolves government allegations that Harley sold roughly 2458,000 "super tuners" enabling motorcycles since 2008 to pollute the air at levels greater than what the Milwaukee-based company certified to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Responsibility for Shishmaref's plight falls on those in the industrialized world who continue to pollute the atmosphere with carbon, knowing it will warm the climate, melt the ice and make it less likely Shishmaref will survive.
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Much of the work on reducing the environmental impact of trucks has focused on getting existing manufacturers to make them more efficient and pollute less, but if they go all electric, pollution will drop to zero.
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The settlement resolves government allegations that Harley sold roughly 340,000 "super tuners" enabling motorcycles since 2008 to pollute the air at levels greater than what the Milwaukee-based company certified to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The flowing hog waste from breached lagoons — which appears pinkish in color — could also pollute the state's rivers, streams, and waterways, elevating nitrogen and phosphorous levels, and causing toxic algae blooms and fish kills, Estrin said.
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In 2300 Chile's Supreme Court suspended Pascua-Lama, a gold mine straddling the border with Argentina, over fears that it would pollute rivers; Barrick Gold, its Canadian developer, had already spent $22 billion on the mine.
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Trump forged ahead with the Dakota Access Pipeline Why you should care: Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe are concerned that the pipeline will pollute the water they rely on and threaten sacred indigenous lands.
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Exporting hundreds of billions of dollars to China to mine the earth and pollute the planet's air for solar panels manufactured with lesser environmental standards than we have here in the U.S. is the wrong answer.
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True, Trump boasted of having worked with congressional Republicans to set mining companies free to pollute mountain streams and destroy forests, by killing the Stream Protection Rule, leaving hard hit coal communities to pay the price.
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Insider polling data backs up other trends of the public eager to adopt more renewable sources of energy, instead of continuing to rely on fossil fuels that pollute the Earth's atmosphere and contribute to climate change.
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By protecting the Arctic Ocean from offshore drilling, President Obama has helped reduce the risk of another devastating oil spill that will pollute Alaska's shores, kill Arctic wildlife and destroy the subsistence harvest from the ocean.
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Specifically, trade rules can be a useful way to address what's known as leakage, where climate regulations in one country drive polluting industries to move to countries with weaker laws — where they can continue to pollute.
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President Donald Trump's administration is about to make it easier for companies to build pipelines, bridges, and roads without an environmental review — opening the door to projects that could pollute the US and accelerate climate change.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access construction project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the Standing Rock Sioux, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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The whale's grisly death brought renewed focus to the worldwide problem of plastics ending up in oceans; a 2015 study estimated that five million to 13 million metric tons of plastic waste pollute oceans each year.
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The e-waste trade is now seeking new territory to exploit the weak and pollute the skies "Once it got to China, it was just going into a black hole," said Jim Puckett, director of BAN.
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Federated social networks offer some improvements for news distribution because they do not rely on the economic incentives that drive Facebook to select stories — like hoaxes — that generate lots of clicks but pollute the news ecosystem.
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Read: It's not just the oceans - microplastic pollution is all around us Thames21 is a group that organizes clean-ups along the foreshore of the River Thames, in the UK, and educates people to not pollute it.
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Now, let there be no doubt in any board room or executive suite across this country, if you cheat your employees, exploit your customers, pollute our environment or rip off the taxpayers, we will hold you accountable.
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That they are dangerous, block pedestrian pathways, pollute our beautiful rivers and streams, and are run by VC-backed tech companies that will leech away the health of our public transit infrastructure to make a quick buck.
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If the trees are not removed, environmentalists say, the wood will rot in the water and create methane gas emissions that will contribute to global warming and pollute downstream waters for indigenous communities that live off fishing.
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Last year, the California State Water Resources Control Board formed a team to pursue environmental crime investigations against cannabis growers who pollute waterways, a problem that has existed for decades, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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Russian prosecutors have charged Ruzhechko, an executive at a small oil transport firm, and several other people in a criminal conspiracy to pollute the network, which is owned and operated by the country's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft.
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"Let me say this to the men and women who run our country's corporations: If you cheat your employees, exploit consumers, pollute our environment or rip off taxpayers, we are going to hold you accountable," Clinton said.
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Politicians like Chairman Smith attack the abstract idea of "regulation" because it polls better than saying that they think it is fine to let companies pollute our air and water without having to clean up after themselves.
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The government had been scheduled to meet on Monday with the chiefs of Quechua-speaking towns angry over the company's use of a communal road to transport its concentrates to port, which they say pollute their lands.
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Obama, who ran a scandal-free presidency, will have a field day mocking the swampland scandals that pollute the Trump presidency on a regular basis on the front pages of newspapers and television screens across the land.
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This agenda would prioritize racial and economic justice, and would ignore false-promise carbon pricing and trading programs, which are nothing more than pay-to-pollute schemes backed by Wall Street speculators and fossil fuel polluters themselves.
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The 2015 regulation, also known as Waters of the United States, asserts federal power over small waterways such as wetlands, headwaters and ponds, requiring Clean Water Act permits for any actions that could harm or pollute them.
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The government said that, across the U.K., consumers use an estimated 13 billion plastic drinks bottles annually, with over 3 billion either sent to landfill, incinerated, or left to pollute streets, the marine environment and the countryside.
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The state's target is one of President Trump's most consequential environmental rollbacks to date, a proposal unveiled last week to let cars pollute more while stripping California of its right to set its own air-quality rules.
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And, while I hate to be the bearer of bad news, it needs to be said: With the 2020 campaign approaching, and with bad actors continuing to pollute our information ecosystem, things are going to get worse.
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And so long as that question of women's electability continues to pollute the discussion and corrupt our decision-making, our century-old right to vote is a hollow step toward a political equality we have not reached.
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Large-scale mining efforts are even riskier in the Amazon where so-called greenfield projects require the construction of roads, railways and hydroelectric dams that worsen deforestation, pollute the water supply and destroy plant and animal life.
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What Mr. Salvini did instead was to pollute the public discourse with xenophobic rhetoric and anti-immigration policies predicated on contempt for migrants, promoting an "Italians first" mentality that reawakened racist instincts that had been mostly dormant.
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His analysis helped lay the groundwork for the so-called cap-and-trade alternative, which imposes a ceiling on pollutants but lets companies set the price in the marketplace by trading permits to pollute within those caps.
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The installed software is designed to turn on full emissions-control systems only when the car is undergoing official emissions testing; it neglects to do the same during normal driving situations, when Volkswagens pollute far more heavily.
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The $3.7 billion Dakota Access construction project has drawn steady opposition since last summer from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, along with environmental activists, who claim it could pollute nearby water supplies and destroy sacred historical sites.
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But it didn't square with Trump's America First agenda, and he saw it as unfairly punishing the U.S. while allowing other, less developed nations to continue to pollute, as well as an attack on the American coal industry.
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Yet conflict persists between the indigenous peoples' right to land and the interests of mining companies who pollute Sami land and waters — Norway is one of only four countries that allows the dumping of mining waste at sea.
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Arlette's plan to sell her acreage to a hog-farming combine would pollute his land, and giving in to her plan would mean either living in the city, or divorcing her and inevitably losing Henry to her custody.
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What they found: By observing the white dwarf and the planetesimal, scientists were able to watch the planetary material "pollute" the atmosphere of the white dwarf as the dense star stripped away the outer layers of the world.
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The rule will also allow coal plants to remain in operation longer if they agree to improve their efficiency, whereas under the CPP, many coal plants would have likely been forced to close because they pollute too much.
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Without a free pass to pollute, the carriage operators who had been leaving dead horses in the streets were at a disadvantage when a new technology came along that didn't produce piles of manure and leave carcasses behind.
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If we take a strong pro-environment line, we might screen out all energy, mining, materials, chemical, paper, hazardous waste-producing, and semi-conductor companies (I know I'm missing several industries), which pollute the land, air or water.
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Asked to explain that tweet on Monday, Banks said the president's concern about carbon emission goals is that they could hurt the economies of large, developed nations like the U.S. while growing economies like China continue to pollute.
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The Bradford pear cannot by itself produce fruit, but by hybridizing with other Callery pear varieties, it has earned a spot on the growing list of invasive plants that, to many eyes, pollute any landscape where they appear.
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Charities have been unified in their support for retaining the Johnson Amendment, but still the House bill includes language limiting its application, and threatening to pollute the whole charitable sector by pulling it into the realm of politics.
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" San Martino was already organic before becoming biodynamic in 2002, but he describes organic farming as "just a topical method that's a good way not to pollute, but not a good way to create an equilibrium for plants.
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For example, Mr. Trump wants to repeal the Obama water regulation, known as the Waters of the United States rule, which would make it a federal crime to pollute in most rivers, streams and wetlands across the country.
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"We must conserve and protect our environment for future generations and deliver swift and certain consequences to those who break the law and pollute our air," said Harris, who is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
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If we're going to pollute the environment this much, we have to be doing something that's going to offset the carbon in return until there's a carbon tax, which I truly hope is where we will go next.
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Speaking from my research over the last 10 years, I think there's a smaller percentage of the population that is actively trying to pollute — and even the people who are polluting maybe don't know that's what they're doing.
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They've made this independent, scorching music video — sung as a parody of the exuberant song, "How Lovely To Be a Woman," from Bye Bye Birdie, of course — to recap some of the gender inequalities that still pollute our culture.
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Esau learned that a consensus of climate scientists -- at least 219% -- agree humans are causing rapid warming, and that continuing to pollute at current rates would be catastrophic, contributing to mass extinction, searing droughts, deadlier heat waves and more.
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The idea is to use the market to punish activities that pollute -- burning coal, oil and gas, for example -- and by comparison reward cleaner choices, such as biking to work instead of driving, or using solar and wind power.
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"What happens in situations like that is polluters just move right across the border and pollute where it's cheap, and we want to make sure we fight pollution across Canada and across the world," Clark told a news conference.
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More likely, it could irradiate a tract of land or pollute waterways if there's a crash or a spill, an eventuality that shippers prepare for by testing the casks for a nine-metre drop and being submerged in water.
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The White House says it wants to revive coal, oil and natural gas production, all of which pollute the atmosphere, contributing to the likelihood of mass extinction, worsening droughts, deadlier heat waves, flooded coastal cities and other climate disasters.
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"Our proposal aims to strike the right regulatory balance based on the most recent information and create a 50-state solution that will enable more Americans to afford, newer, safer vehicles that pollute less," Wheeler said in a statement.
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The logic is sound: If steel mills are restricted as to how much they can pollute, they will use the best possible quality iron ore in order to maximise the amount of steel produced relative to the energy consumed.
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Given your stratospheric MQ, you'll end up rejecting businesses that don't fit your moral compass: companies that pollute the environment, startups that over-charge the elderly for healthcare, or extreme-right-leaning media entities started by overtly racist founders.
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The change began in May, when a group of young people kicked off efforts to spread simple techniques of cleanliness, waste management and recycling to allay villagers' fears that the garbage clogging the waterways would pollute their rice fields.
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It would have protected 6,000 miles of streams, and the fish that live in them, from mountaintop removal mining by requiring companies to avoid mining practices that permanently pollute streams or destroy drinking water sources with toxic heavy metals.
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In the debate over how quickly to make American cars pollute less, the nation's auto-parts makers are now in open disagreement with the automakers that buy the countless transmissions, turbochargers and other components that make up modern automobiles.
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The bill, backed by Democrats, would require major polluters to buy credits for every ton of greenhouse gas they produced, and over time, the state would make fewer credits available, with the goal of forcing companies to pollute less.
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They are among the thousands of people who have converged on the Standing Rock Reservation in an attempt to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, which activists say could pollute the Missouri River and destroy a local way of life.
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They aren't seriously trying to engage with the reality of climate change or the economics of reduced emissions; their goal is to keep polluters free to pollute as long as possible, and they'll grab onto anything serving that goal.
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Supporters of offsets say they are only an acceptable tool once companies have done everything they can to pollute less, such as tightening up manufacturing processes, cutting down on office heating, or making delivery trucks run on cleaner fuels.
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You look at pollution - to make sure that companies don't pollute, people create a bunch of guidelines on paper and you have huge number of people who would go and check on that – that is a very outdated model.
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The company has gone to court to challenge the decision to block the disputed part of the route and to seek alternatives to allay Native Americans' concerns that the pipeline would cross sacred burial sites and pollute drinking water.
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Muhammad Nyamwanda, director of digital media for the NASA coalition, pointed to a glut of viral attack videos that seemed to pollute Facebook overnight, spreading fear of violence, destitution and tribal tensions in the lead-up to the vote.
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On a new episode of VICELAND's HATE THY NEIGHBOR, comedian Jamali Maddix heads to Oklahoma to meet members of the Ponca Tribe, whose reservation has been deteriorating for years as massive oil companies continue to pollute their tribal lands.
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Last week, concerns about Quellaveco's potential impact on a local river flared following demonstrations in the neighboring region of Arequipa against another copper project, Southern Copper Corp's Tia Maria mine, which farmers oppose due to fears it will pollute their crops.
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Reached at the end of 2015, the Paris deal was one of the most comprehensive climate change agreements ever passed; it is notable because it included countries like China, which pollute heavily but have not signed on to climate deals before.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - They pollute the roads and chug along at a snail's pace, but to their Pakistani owners the rickety trucks are moving pieces of art, commanding attention with garish portraits of flowers, Islamic art, and snow-capped Himalayan peaks.
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The Economist: With Brexit and with climate change, if you say "We can adapt and turn this into an opportunity," it feels like you're rewarding and absolving the worst elements of humanity—like jingoism and the impulse to pollute—with impunity.
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Image: Ohio State UniversityTo better understand how the land and sea pollute each other, Sawyer and her colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory combined topographic maps and climate models, yielding estimates of coastal groundwater discharge for the entire continental United States.
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But consider this: If you do this ritual, you may find that post-Halloween you will be free of bad energy and ready to start a new year, in which you will be free to pollute yourself all over again.
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New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don&apost have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.
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Motherboard previously published another Aglaya brochure, which showed the firm was offering dodgy services to pollute internet search results and social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, and "manipulate current events," alongside more ordinary products such as iPhone and Android spyware.
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While recycled plastic clothing helps keep waste out of the environment and reduces the amount of virgin plastic that's produced for use in clothing, it also has the potential to re-pollute the ocean in the form of microplastic fibers.
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Her study brought us these shocking stats: 8 billion (Rochman explained to us that the trillion number originally published in the study was a typo) microbeads pollute U.S. aquatic habitats daily, which rounds out to approximately 2.9 trillion per year.
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The amendment would void all permits to pollute in the EU's Emission Trading System (ET), which charges power plants and factories for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit, issued by a country leaving the bloc from January 2018 onward.
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"We like to go to eat at Burger King and McDonald's, but children only play with the plastic toys they give us for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm animals and pollute the sea," the petition states.
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According to the Phoenix New Times, the EPA "is supposed to monitor plants like the coal-burning Navajo Generating Station to make sure they have the technology to pollute as little as possible" around national parks like the Grand Canyon.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved on Wednesday to undercut its own authority to block permits for major projects that may pollute water, in its latest move to unwind regulations and increase "regulatory certainty" for landowners and businesses.
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The repeal of this emissions rule would deliver a devastating blow to public health by giving older, heavy-duty trucks a license to pollute the air we breathe, putting our most vulnerable communities, including children and older adults, in harm's way.
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The enactment of the legislation was a victory for activists and Catholic Church leaders, who argued that giving miners free rein in El Salvador would further pollute the water sources of one of the most environmentally wrecked countries in the hemisphere.
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The ETS cap and trade market is meant to be the European Union's prime tool for implementing cuts in carbon emissions, but since the financial crisis of 2007-8, it has been burdened by excess supply of permits to pollute.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is nearing a settlement to resolve the U.S. Justice Department's allegations that the Italian-American automaker used illegal software to allow 104,000 U.S. diesel vehicles to pollute beyond legal limits, a person briefed on the matter said.
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" If Ms. Warren, with a "net worth 100 times mine," decided to donate to his campaign, he asked rhetorically, neatly casting his regular-person-championing opponent as rich herself, "would that pollute my campaign because it came from a wealthy person?
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Private jets are one of the best ways to pollute—some estimates say private jets produce at least 10 times the amount of carbon per passenger, while SAF promises to reduce a private jet's emissions by a meager 18 percent.
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"Leonardo," one coffee farmer with whom I spoke, participated in a project supported by Starbucks Foundation that taught him to wash his harvest and process the wastewater in an environmentally-friendly way that didn't pollute the local water supply downstream.
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"By giving older, dirty heavy-duty trucks a license to pollute the air we all breathe with nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, this proposal will lead to asthma attacks, lung cancer and premature deaths that could have been avoided," he said.
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"It's absurd to pretend this so-called 'guidance' doesn't change what's acceptable: the purpose of the rollback memo is to let upwind states pollute more and refuse to control harmful smog and soot they emit into neighboring states," he added.
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Across the globe, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year, while almost 1 billion people go hungry, and humans continue to pollute drinkable water sources while more than 1 billion people live without clean water for drinking and cooking.
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From his diatribe against the voluntary climate agreement — he said it would hamstring the U.S. economy and allow others to pollute more — one can infer that he still eyes climate science warily at best, but most likely rejects it in large part.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actors Susan Sarandon, Riley Keough and Shailene Woodley joined members of North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux Tribe outside a courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to protest against construction of a pipeline they say would pollute water and desecrate sacred land.
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In a series of detailed reports, they warn that storms, spills, or technical snafus could spark a disaster that would wipe out fisheries, destroy some of the world's most diverse coral reefs, and pollute the waters of coastal communities across the South Pacific.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Holding signs and banners and chanting "Oil Kills," protesters in Atlanta and other U.S. cities on Tuesday shouted support for Native American activists trying to stop construction of a North Dakota pipeline they say will desecrate sacred land and pollute water.
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The Minnesota-based company has been trying to cut emissions, in part by leasing newer ships, which are more fuel efficient, and working with ship designers to develop new ships that pollute less, said Jan Dieleman, who heads Cargill's Ocean Transportation Business.
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But, in my view, one ought to stand for the anthem out of respect for those who have died for what it is supposed to stand for – equality and freedom for all – rather than boycott it for the imperfections which pollute it.
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Environmentalists also are working with municipalities to cut the amount of rock salt dumped on roads during the winter to keep it out of the lake and reduce storm-water runoff, which can pollute the lake and fuel algae and plant growth.
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"There were things that are just required under the new standards that if they are not there it's a violation of the [regulations] but those requirements aren't as clear cut in the old ones, it said 'you know, don't pollute water,' " he said.
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Ralph Northam (D), includes Republican-introduced language that limits participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a pact initially started by Northeastern states in 2009 that creates a larger cap-and-trade market to reduce how much power producers can pollute.
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"No one voted to pollute our public lands, air or drinking water in the last election, yet the Trump administration is doing the bidding of powerful polluters as nearly its first order of business," Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine said in a statement.
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The EPA's announcement kicks off a process for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to propose a new set of lowered CAFÉ standards — which dictate how much mileage a car gets per gallon of gas, and therefore the amount that cars can pollute.
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Ms. Nixon also supports congestion pricing, but her plan calls for two additional revenue sources to fund the subway upgrades: a fee on companies that pollute in New York State and a millionaire's tax — an idea backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Environmental remediation, a term that means "cleaning up after businesses that pollute," is currently a growing industry, with some market researchers claiming it'll be worth as much as $123.13 billion by the year 2022—an amount that's almost equal to Google's 2017 revenue.
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Congress should see through this ruse and treat the big players for what they are — industrial polluters that shouldn't have a free pass to pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we need to support us all.
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Editorial Volkswagen's diesel emissions fraud, exposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2015, is finally rocking Europe, where cozy relations between government regulators and industry have allowed VW — and other diesel car manufacturers — to pollute with impunity for too long.
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And if you're not ready to make a lifetime commitment to an ugly sweater, Rent the Runway will now rent you one for $15 and take it back after four days, lest it pollute your closet with its kitschy vibe by staying longer.
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Under Barack Obama, the Army Corps of Engineers had in December denied an easement needed to complete the pipeline's last unfinished bit, which came near the Standing Rock reservation—a proximity that the tribe said would infringe on their sovereignty and potentially pollute their water.
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At these moments, the last thing we want to read is an op-ed by someone who doesn't understand the fragility that it is to be black—the constant need to elevate those with our likeness beyond the racial barriers that pollute that image.
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If they are empaths they will feel just as trapped as I do, just as complicit in something they cannot solve — and they will pollute and harm and gobble up the world because that is what it means to live in the 21st century.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is nearing a settlement to resolve the U.S. Justice Department's allegations that the Italian-American automaker used illegal software to allow 104,20183 U.S. diesel vehicles to pollute beyond legal limits, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.
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The site of the $3.8 billion project in southern North Dakota had been the scene of demonstrations by Native Americans and environmentalists, who say the pipeline would damage sacred lands and any leaks could pollute the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
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They have ordered a state-owned airline to provide a service to a mountain resort, Shimla, on grounds of public interest, and have slapped a ban on the registration of big diesel cars in the capital, Delhi, until judges decide whether they pollute too much.
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Attached to half a plastic bottle as a mouth and towed behind a boat, the synthetic tights (cotton will absorb water and sink) sieve surface water for some of the five trillion or so pieces of plastic that are estimated to pollute the world's oceans.
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Clinton should make a centerpiece of her presidential campaign her proposal for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United case, which virtually legalizes the buying of our politics and prostitution of our government through massive secret donations that pollute and corrupt our democracy.
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He devotes much of a chapter to Anthony Comstock, the longtime postal inspector and self-styled "weeder in God's garden," who banned and prosecuted the mailing of birth control pamphlets, "marriage aids" and "indecent" literary works like Walt Whitman's poems, lest they pollute public morals.
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What has really affected my personal freedom more: the fact that I don't have the freedom to pollute a certain river, or the fact that for part of my adult life, I didn't have the freedom to marry somebody I was in love with?
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"It could lead to dangerous levels of climate change with higher occurrences of extreme weather events, affect the regulatory function of forest ecosystems and biodiversity ... and pollute water bodies such that it would lead to more oxygen-depleted dead zones in oceans," Springmann said.
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The U.S. Justice and Interior Departments along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted construction of part of the pipeline in September due to protests by Native American tribes who contend the pipeline would disturb sacred land and pollute waterways supplying nearby homes.
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In addition to the Green New Deal, we need a Green Marshall Plan for investment in international sustainable development to execute an end run around traditional "pollute then mitigate" development policies, and a Green Space Race to spur innovations such as efficient long-range transmission.
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"The elimination categories are mainly backward processes, technologies, equipment and products that do not meet the requirements of relevant laws and regulations, do not have safe production conditions, seriously waste resources, pollute the environment, and need to be eliminated," according to an NDRC release.
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It's one where fresh, organic produce isn't out of reach in working-class neighborhoods, holed up in Amazon-owned megastores, and where farmers can make a decent living and not be run out of business by industrial feeding operations that pollute their drinking water.
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Editorial Republicans in Congress seem strangely eager to let coal companies pollute streams without telling the public, to let oil and gas companies more easily bribe foreign officials, and to let any company win federal contracts no matter how badly it has violated labor laws.
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Otherwise he would know that every, and I mean every, major Econ 101 textbook argues for government regulation or taxation of activities that pollute the environment, because otherwise neither producers nor consumers have an incentive to take the damage inflicted by this pollution into account.
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Meanwhile, hotels are doing their bit by using more solar power, sourcing produce locally to shrink their carbon footprint, treating wastewater and phasing out single-use plastics that pollute the seas, said Bakhodir Burkhanov, head of the United Nations Development Program Pacific Office in Fiji.
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Barbara Underwood, who became the state's attorney general earlier this year after predecessor Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace, wants to see whether industry groups were behind a huge effort to pollute the 22 million letters filed to the FCC's electronic comment filing system with fraudulent submissions.
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VanMoof Plus was designed from the ground up to help reduce waste produced by the disposable economy, particularly dock-less bike services that are flooding the world's cities (and trash dumps) with cheap Chinese bikes that can clog pedestrian walkways and pollute open spaces when left unchecked.
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"And it makes me think that if these kinds of stunts continue, it's only a matter of time before enterprising companies launch giant 'billboards in space' that further pollute the night sky and present an existential threat to conducting astronomy research from the ground," said Barentine.
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"We like to go to eat at Burger King and McDonald's, but children only play with the plastic toys they give us for a few minutes before they get thrown away and harm animals and pollute the sea," wrote Ella and Caitlin Wood on a Change.
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Communities in Albany will put their bodies in the way of the crude oil "bomb" trains that roll through the city and pollute the air, and Midwesterners will protest pipeline expansion plans across the Great Lakes, which have already known the devastation that oil spills bring.
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As of late last month, the California Air Resources Board estimated that the well had spewed up to 0003 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas, the greenhouse gas equivalent of 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, as much as 330,000 cars pollute in a year.
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Oil companies, for example, have simply walked away from more than a million uncapped oil and gas wells across the country, leaving governments to try to plug the wells and clean up the drill sites, which can pollute our air and water and harm our climate.
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The hold on new loans came after the European Anti-Fraud Office, known as OLAF, concluded that Volkswagen misled authorities about how it used €400 million, or $472 million, that was meant to be used to develop engines that would be more fuel efficient and pollute less.
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Those include trading systems, already present in parts of Europe and the U.S., in which companies essentially buy and sell the right to pollute — a setup that gives polluters an economic incentive to cut back while generating new income for businesses that help clean the atmosphere.
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And the NuvaRing gave me generalized anxiety so severe and intolerable that after three months of "See how you feel," I threw all my rings in the trash with an uncharacteristic lack of consideration for the smallmouth bass that undergo sex changes when hormonal contraceptives pollute waterways.
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Much of the garbage is swept around for lengthy amounts of time, putting marine life that may swallow or get entangled in it at risk, and when it breaks down into smaller pieces it can pollute the ocean with both massive clouds of tiny "microplastic" and harmful chemicals.
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Not far away, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas that rise up east of Tulare County, officials are also waging a battle over marijuana being grown on public lands — often, officials said, by armed work crews that occasionally shoot one another, pollute national parks, or spark huge wildfires.
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The history of corporate behavior when constrained only by ethical norms but not by legal requirement is a deadly one, from the infamous Chevy Corvair, to the deliberate efforts of tobacco companies to target children, to the PCBs that still pollute our waters 40 years after they were banned.
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It's inevitable that some, perhaps many, older coal-fired plants will close; but states can also convert to cleaner-burning natural gas, build renewable-energy sources, like wind and solar, or enter into regional "cap and trade" programs that allow them to buy and sell permits to pollute.
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Her injury is the most serious to have been reported during months of increasingly acrimonious conflict over the 1,170-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, which Native American tribes, led by the Standing Rock Sioux, fear would pollute the Missouri River and harm sacred cultural lands and tribal burial grounds.
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"No one voted to pollute our public lands, air or drinking water in the last election, yet the Trump administration is doing the bidding of powerful polluters as nearly its first order of business," Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine, the lead litigator in the case, said in a statement.
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It would be easy to say that, even among the supposedly "liberal" thinkers who pollute my newsfeed, much of the criticism is based in deeply rooted misogyny, but in general I see her being cast as an "establishment" candidate and that somehow this is an entirely negative association.
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We should ban private jets because they represent "the nadir of carbon inequality" where the richest among us pollute the most then pass on the costs to the rest of us whether it's in a degraded ecology, poor health outcomes, or political capture all to preserve their toys.
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In a complaint filed on Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court, the Earth Island Institute said the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo Inc, Nestle USA and seven other companies sold California consumers goods in single-use packaging they knew or should have known would pollute waterways and oceans.
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Back home, my colleagues in the New York City Council were in the midst of a contentious fight on a bill that would impose a fee on consumers who use plastic bags for their groceries in order to curb the amount of bags that pollute our waterways and communities.
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I mean, what president would try to weaken emission standards so American-made cars could pollute more, so our kids could breathe dirtier air in the age of climate change, when clean energy systems are becoming the next great global industry and China is focused on dominating it?
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I don't mean the neo-Nazi screamers at the rallies (they are an easy target) — I mean the billionaires from Wall Street and the oil industry who are about to take over the government and privatize our public parks, schools, and hospitals, and pollute our air, soil, and water.
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So again external organizations are being looped into Facebook's mess — in this case to try to drain the swamp of fakes being fenced and amplified on its platform — even as the scale of the task remains hopeless, and all sorts of junk continues to flood into and pollute the public sphere.
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"In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all," they wrote.
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But just like capitalists can run amok and they can environmentally pollute the system, which they shouldn't be doing, or they can pay themselves too much at the top and not pay their employees enough at the bottom to let the social contract work properly, unions can also run amok.
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Granta Nakayama, a partner at the law firm King & Spalding who served in the E.P.A.'s office of compliance under President George W. Bush, said the memo did not give companies a free pass to pollute, but rather provided guidance in a challenging situation where many industries are facing unique circumstances.
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It also means making it easier for people to buy and sell weapons of mass killing, for lawmakers to green-light discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender Americans, for industries to pollute the environment with impunity, and for the wealthy to purchase even more political influence than they already have.
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"Allowing dangerous proposals like Jordan Cove to continue will only lead to more drilling and fracking, which in turn will further pollute our air and our water and bring about more climate-fueled weather disasters like the record droughts, wildfires, and superstorms we have witnessed in recent years," he said.
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In North Dakota, where activists have fought the construction of an oil pipeline that threatens to pollute a neighboring Indian reservation's drinking water as well as deface sacred lands, lawmakers have proposed punishing protesters who demonstrate on private property with up to 30 days in jail and a $1,500 fine.
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But annual tests by scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology show that antibiotic-resistant bacteria appear while the river is still flowing through the narrow gorges of the Himalayan foothills, hundreds of miles before it encounters any of the usual suspects that would pollute its waters with resistant germs.
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The irony is that, by withdrawing from the TPP—a trade agreement which, though it currently excludes China, might one day have constrained its ability to pollute and subsidise state-owned enterprises—Mr Trump has immediately turned his back on the most promising way to change the economy he seems most worried about.
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In the realm of climate, our beloved wild king salmon are disappearing in Southeast Alaska, our permafrost is dying, climate change threatens to send whole villages into the ocean and British Columbia's under-insured and under-regulated mining projects threaten to pollute the watersheds of some of the world's biggest salmon populations.
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"We have made great progress in phasing out hazardous chemicals that pollute our waterways and environment — there has been a major paradigm shift in the clothing industry triggered by the Detox campaign, which now takes responsibility for their production instead of just their products," said Bunny McDiarmid, executive director of Greenpeace International.
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One of the things we found out: One of the problems with cap and trade [a system in which governments place a cap on countries' carbon-dioxide pollution and companies then pay for, and trade, credits that permit them to pollute] is that it is dependent on predicting what future emissions will be.
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Mostly they are crude imitations of regular, if single-minded, people that, by virtue of existing and posting — a lot — are able to manipulate platforms' shared spaces: They increase visible follower counts and sharing metrics; they create Twitter trends and hijack or pollute hashtags into uselessness; they flood searches around breaking news.
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A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling that had found the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers adequately delegated to the state of Michigan the authority to grant a permit for a sulfide mine project that an Indian tribe fears could pollute a drinking water source.
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"The new attacks differ from the proof-of-concept methods revealed in the original research on Meltdown and Spectre, the researchers wrote, because while those methods simply pollute the cache during speculation, the newer attacks are "caused by write requests being sent out speculatively in a system that uses an invalidation-based coherence protocol.
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"Because of the number of spacecraft involved in large constellations, [these companies] need to pay attention to certain areas to make sure they do not pollute the near Earth space environment with significant orbital debris," Jer-Chyi Liou, the chief scientist of orbital debris at NASA who helmed the new study, tells The Verge.
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She reeled off the list: plastic bags require nonrenewable fossil fuels for their manufacture, disperse themselves easily because of their lightness, impede waterways, contribute to flooding, pollute oceans, entangle wildlife, kill sea turtles, degrade to small particles, contaminate water and soil, overwhelm landfills, and cost huge amounts of money to clean up and dispose of.
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On Sunday, they cheered the Department of the Army's announcement that it would seek other routes for the pipeline and would not allow a crucial section to be drilled under the Missouri River just upstream from the tribe's reservation, where there were worries it could pollute their drinking water and cross near sacred burial sites.
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The only thing that can create the change we need in the time we have left, if we're honest with ourselves, is a radical political transformation that holds the rights of youth, of indigenous peoples, of women, of all people as more important that the rights of corporations to pollute and perpetuate intergenerational injustice on me and my peers.
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The project is supported by Switzerland, France, Canada, Japan and the United States, as well as energy firms Total, Chevron, ENI and BP. But environmental organisations like Greenpeace are worried that the project's findings could turn into a "right to pollute" and detract from efforts to reduce emissions, which are driving a disastrous rise in global temperatures.
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The project is supported by Switzerland, France, Canada, Japan and the United States, as well as energy firms Total, Chevron, ENI and BP. But environmental organizations like Greenpeace are worried that the project's findings could turn into a "right to pollute" and detract from efforts to reduce emissions, which are driving a disastrous rise in global temperatures.
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Unlike the manchildren posing as bikers who pollute the event (decked in vests they don't own, or biker gear that looks hardcore but is really just off-the-shelf gear meant to fool outsiders) the dedicated charters and groups—like the Ontario Hells Angels, who held an omnipresent grip on the entire town—were more reserved in their behavior.
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It would seem the last thing either Trump or Macron would want to do is pollute the bizarre friendship the two have somehow managed to establish that has led the French President to become the first world leader to be invited to a state visit at the White House (with a dinner at Mount Vernon, no less).
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A coalition of virtually everyone who lives or works around the bay—sport and commercial fishermen, environmental groups, the tourism industry, native tribes and other residents—has fought the mine for over a decade, and now is gearing up for another round of opposition for fear an opened mine could pollute the Bay and threaten the industry.
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" She added: "We all felt more comfortable because we understand each other, because of our age and our careers, but also being women, the way we talk to each other is not with an inflation of ego or with a false persona of harshness, or some sort of weird bravado that does pollute interactions, even unknowingly, with dudes.
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Tai chi can also be an entry point for people who may have fallen off the exercise wagon but want to get back to doing more vigorous and often more enjoyable physical activities like swimming and hiking, or biking and walking to and from errands instead of relying on vehicles that pollute the air and clog the roads.
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Even as Ryan himself fades from the scene, Mulvaney is doing his level best to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, work requirements are getting slapped onto Medicaid, Iowa is making it harder to sign up for Affordable Care Act plans, and Scott Pruitt is doing everything in his power to make it easier for companies to pollute the air and water.
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Academic researchers on both sides of the Atlantic said separately this week that they had found that Fiat Chrysler's diesel vehicles had suspiciously high pollution levels and that there was evidence the company had used a so-called defeat device, software intended to allow a vehicle to pass official emissions tests but to pollute more when driven on the highway.
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On Wednesday, at the conclusion of his trip to the American West, where he held a campaign fundraiser and visited a section of the border wall, President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that San Francisco was "in total violation" and would be given "notice" for purportedly allowing its homeless population to pollute the ocean with used syringes.
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"In light of the current administration's overt efforts to make it easier for the fossil fuel industry to pollute our air and water, it is more essential than ever that Congress resist efforts to increase fossil fuel production," the groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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"In light of the current administration's overt efforts to make it easier for the fossil fuel industry to pollute our air and water, it is more essential than ever that Congress resist efforts to increase fossil fuel production," the groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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The president argued that the 2015 agreement, which nearly every country in the world signed onto, "hamstrings" the US economy, particularly the manufacturing and fossil fuel industries, hurts American workers, and empowers countries that pollute almost as much or more than the US. "The bottom line is that the Paris agreement is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States," Trump said.
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And the mixed reception for initial public stock offerings this spring by Uber and Lyft — which like General Motors are promoting a future vision of transportation where many people stop owning and driving cars in favor of hailing rides in automated, emissions-free vehicles that never pollute the air or have accidents — highlight investor skepticism about the rapid arrival of the future that GM is betting on.
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New refineries, which can pollute the communities that surround them, have been built across the country, especially in the Midwest and South, to process the oil and gas; new pipelines stretching from coast to coast to distribute the oil and gas have been built too (though the construction of some are now on hold because of price collapses, as well as increased environmental activism).
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The down and dirty fear that the DOJ and the FBI have is that revealing the contents of the criminal file on the president to his political allies in Congress in the midst of an investigation of him would be a dangerous precedent, one that would pollute the investigation and give present and future politically powerful potential defendants advantages that no one else has.
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The site may be the Internet arm of a local television station or newspaper that purports to report the news straight up, or a website that purports to dispense health care advice, but does it fail to make corrections when it gets something wrong, pollute its work with deceptive headlines, or fail to label advertising in a way that distinguishes it from news and information?
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So, Thursday night – as I did last night – after the sun sets on the sweeping, picturesque landscape of northern Texas, I will step out my front door and – far away from city lights that pollute the night sky – I will gawk at the rising moon, mindful of the beauty of God's creation and the extraordinary native people whose legacy deserves to be remembered and cherished for many, many moons to come.
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Having spent an important part of my career working for Democratic leaders in Congress, but being a patriotic American fed up with the poisons that pollute American politics, I am today endorsing House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) in his Republican primary against Paul Nehlen next Tuesday.
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While he is plundering our national parks, threatening to deport people who have lived their whole lives in the United States, watering down the defenses that have been established to protect the little guy against banking scams, or threatening to pollute our shorelines with oil rigs, among many other things, he is distracting us with vulgar language, tirades against other countries, and threats to abandon efficient foreign relations agreements.
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There were no city regulations about how these cesspools were built, but their considerable fetor was the least of the problem: In London "the subsoil was becoming saturated with human detritus, and it began seeping through the earth to pollute the groundwater that fed the wells," writes Ruth Goodman, a voluble DIY historian who has lived as a Victorian herself, and told the tale in the bestseller, How to Be a Victorian.
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Democrats also plan to use the Congressional Review Act this week to force a vote on a resolution to repeal Trump's Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which they say gives companies more leeway to pollute, and a resolution to repeal the IRS rule that prohibits state and local governments from reducing the tax liability of residents who saw their ability to deduct state and local taxes dramatically reduced under Trump's 2017 tax bill.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE is planning to limit the agency's authority to block permits for activities that could pollute or harm waterways.
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A bicycle is a human-powered machine weighing next to nothing that can travel easily at 10-15 mph, needs only a surface on which to move, is not limited to transit schedules or beholden to fuel prices, does not pollute the environment or require large parking spaces, has demonstrable benefits to the health of individuals and the strength of economies, is easily repaired, costs nothing to operate, and is, above all, really, really fun to use.
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The world is full of corporate billionaire scumbags who pollute the earth, kill wildlife, cause cancer, secretly running nations into the ground, and the moronic masses who just agree with their mindless slogans and will never fight the good fight to help to stop them until finally the last blistered blind three armed mutant dregs of humanity eat each other's putrid flesh in mankind's final nauseating death throws... High ho, some things you gotta get over.
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PRUITT SEEKS TO LIMIT CLEAN WATER ACT AUTHORITY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE is planning to limit the agency's authority to block permits for activities that could pollute or harm waterways.
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