The accord is the first to call on all nations rich and poor to take action to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, with additional reviews required every five years to encourage even deeper pollution cuts.
To offset that demographic impact, China and India may have to make even deeper pollution cuts in order to cut death rates, Cohen and other researchers noted earlier this year in a study published in Environmental Science & Technology. .
In urban California, where vehicle emissions dominate, achieving the deep pollution cuts needed to meet a stricter smog standard will require a full-scale transformation of the transportation sector, regulators say, including significant advances in alternative-fuel cars and trucks and cleaner ships, trains and construction equipment.
The story started when Mr. de Rothschild, 31, an heir to the banking fortune who is dubbed "Eco Hunk" in the blogosphere, read a United Nations Environment Program report on deep sea pollution.
He also ignores the deep challenges pollution is causing in China and India, and how clean energy can avoid health impacts caused by dirty fossil fuels.
When you look up this Thanksgiving Thursday and see a blue sky without a hint of deep gray pollution haze, you might also think about Billings, Jorling and their bosses Senators Church and Muskie, and be thankful that they were in the right place at the right time.
Indeed, if basins are not effective in trapping pollution, deep soil and groundwater may be contaminated.
The land is in Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a 27-square-mile chemical weapons complex that became notorious for its deep scars of pollution.
After a yearlong debate within his cabinet, President Bush proposed deep cuts in pollution from power plants and a voluntary program to slow the buildup of gases linked to global warming.
China's mega-cities and major US metropolitan areas will pledge swifter and deeper cuts in carbon pollution on Tuesday, shoring up an historic agreement between presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping.
More than two dozen states filed lawsuits Friday seeking to block the Obama administration's signature climate-change regulation in a wave of opposition that coincided with new calls from scientists and even former Republican administration officials for deeper cuts in carbon pollution for the sake of the planet.
