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Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted
Amit Abraham /
Air
Air Pollution
Love Is
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Beijing has shown how to tackle air pollution by using smog towers.
Manoj Tiwari /
Air
Air Pollution
Beijing
Pollution
Towers
Shown
Tackle
Using
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Health
Air
Air Pollution
Effects
Facts
Pollution
Human
Fact
Lives
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Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.
Barry Gardiner /
Government
Air
Air Pollution
Flood
Pollution
Risk
Should
Threat
Against
Protecting
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Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
Martin Cruz Smith / Novelist
Air Pollution
Normal
Nuclear
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The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.
M. S. Swaminathan /
Health
Air
Air Pollution
Concern
Delhi
Matter
Pollution
Public Health
Public
Internationally
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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
Gale Norton /
Air
Air Pollution
Hoover
Institute
Pollution
Pollution Control
Stanford
Years
Approaches
Market
Researching
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We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.
Caroline Lucas / Former Member Of The European Parliament
Air
Air Pollution
Levels
Made
Pollution
Vulnerable
Years
More
Lived
Deadly
Which
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We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.
Arvind Kejriwal / Former Chief Minister Of Delhi
Air
Air Pollution
Effects
Pollution
Steps
Taken
Possible
Harmful
Ourselves
Save
Tell
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Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
Barry Gardiner /
Government
Air
Air Pollution
Clean
Clean Air
Goods
Inaction
Pollution
Protect
Thinking
Years
Basic
Cannot
Public
Got
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Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.
Clay Shirky / Writer
Air
Air Pollution
Density
Energy
Pollution
Urban
Actually
Equation
Reasons
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The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.
Christine Todd Whitman / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Air
Air Pollution
Clean
Clean Air
Comprehensive
Development
Emissions
Pollution
Designed
Limit
Regulations
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If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
Mark Z. Jacobson / Professor
Air
Air Pollution
Global Warming
Instability
Nuclear
Nuclear Energy
Pollution
Invest
Global
Options
Reduce
Warming
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Caring about the long-term vibrancy of our coasts means transitioning ambitiously to cleaner energy, which would spur job growth in high-paying industries and cut air pollution.
Jaime Harrison /
Air
Air Pollution
Caring
Growth
Job Growth
Long Term
Pollution
Cleaner
Cut
High-Paying
Industries
Spur
Transitioning
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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan / 40Th U.s. President
Funny
Men
Air
Air Pollution
Overboard
Pollution
Setting
Standards
Tough
Vegetation
Approximately
Man-Made
Emission
Enforcing
Released
Sources
Stems
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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
Josh Fox / Film Director
Health
Air
Air Pollution
Betrayal
Community
Contamination
Drilling
Gas
Industry
Pollution
Problem
Values
Water
Everywhere
American
Basic
Civic
Concerns
Follows
Goes
Trail
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I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.
Jack W. Szostak / Biologist
Air
Air Pollution
Canada
Effects
England
Fog
Ill
London
Pollution
Survived
Carried
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The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
Environmental
Air
Air Pollution
Beijing
Breathe
Chinese
Folks
Pollution
Problem
Die
Year
Days
Every
Figured
Giant
Over
Literally
Million
Prematurely
Some
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I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
Steve Buyer / Former U.s. Representative
Administration
Air
Air Pollution
Clean
Diesel
Engines
Fuel
Pollution
Support
Rules
Content
Bush
Reduce
Strongly
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Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.
Rohini Nilekani /
Change
Air
Air Pollution
America
Antibiotics
Asia
Bacteria
Borders
Boundaries
Burning
Climate
Climate Change
Forests
No Boundaries
Pollution
Resistance
Sick
Africa
Change People America
Make
Breath
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My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again.
Jon Richardson / Comedian
Air
Air Pollution
Convinced
Holes
Inevitability
London
Pollution
Big Problem
Collapsing
Hole
Sink
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In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.
Alex Steffen /
Air
Air Pollution
Climate
Growth
Haze
Industrialization
Luxury
Outdated
Pollution
Thick
Tough
Tough Times
Waste
Wealth
Worldview
Meant
Times
Protecting
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The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.
Stewart Udall / American Politician
Environmental
Air
Air Pollution
Automobile
Cities
Effects
Example
Industry
Motor
Noise
Percent
Pollution
Pressure
Well Known
Cause
Environmentalists
For Example
Vehicles
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The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.
Charles C. Mann / Journalist
Legal
Air Pollution
Clean Air
Climate Change
Pollution
Power Plants
Stationary
Amendment
Begins
List
Plants
Required
Sources
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I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'
Tig Notaro / Film Writer
Air
Air Pollution
Alive
Bathroom
Bother
Eating
Nutrients
Pollution
Skinny
Always Remember People
Telling
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
Majora Carter / Urban Revitalization Strategist
Air
Air Pollution
Distance
Facility
Plant
Pollution
Risk
Twice
Area
Chemical
Likely
Poses
Power Plant
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
Lane Evans / Member Of The United States House Of Representatives
Jobs
Opportunity
Air
Air Pollution
Cost
Dependence
Energy Security
Ethanol
Fuel
Growth
Millions
Pollution
Imported
Increased
Opportunities
Pump
Reduced
Renewable
Thousands
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Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
Ma Jun /
Air
Air Pollution
Consumed
Destruction
Mining
Natural
Natural Resources
Pollution
Resources
Serious
Waste
Beyond
Ecosystem
Hazardous
Issue
Solid
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We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA's carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.
Donna Brazile / Author
Thankful
Health
Aim
Air Pollution
Barack
Carbon
Causes
Climate
Climate Change
Country
Epa
Pollution
President
President Barack Obama
Protect
Significant
Standards
Taken
Weather
Most
Extreme
Addressing
Obama
Barack Obama
Be Thankful
Ever
Forward
Step
Step Forward
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Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Air Pollution
Diesel
Engines
Hard Work
Pollution
Rhode Island
School
Buses
Communities
Island
Idling
Passed
Prohibit
Reduce
Rhode
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg / Writer
Environmental
Air
Air Pollution
Coastal
Cutting
Forests
Pollution
Rivers
Dramatically
Improved
Indicator
Waters
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Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.
George Monbiot / Writer
Abundance
Air
Air Pollution
Breakdown
Climate
Diversity
Extinction
Farming
Fishing
Long Way
Loss
Pollution
Source
Wildlife
Apart
Major
Production
Ripping
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In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.
Tom Carper /
Air
Air Pollution
Cleaning
Commitment
Delaware
Home State
Homework
Investing
Pollution
Reducing
West
Cleaner
Unfortunately
Harmful
Result
Strides
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Heathrow is in my constituency and I have been at both the Terminal 4 and Terminal 5 planning inquiries. At these inquiries my community has been assured by the inquiry inspectors, BAA and government ministers that each development would be the last piece of expansion of the airport because of its ever-increasing noise and air pollution.
John Mcdonnell /
Air
Air Pollution
Assured
Development
Expansion
Inquiry
Ministers
Noise
Planning
Pollution
Terminal
Piece
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We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.
Wim Hof /
Technology
Air
Air Pollution
Contact
Deeper
Depth
Heating
Needs
Physiology
Pollution
Used
Yourself
Within
Because
Muscle
More
Being
Get
Any
Own
Becomes
Being Used
Instead
Longer
Stimulated
Weaker
Which
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