Sentence examples for extraction and combustion from inspiring English sources

There is also a pressing need to reduce air, water and land pollution by coal and oil extraction and combustion (which continue to cause more deaths per year than nuclear power has in its entire history).

She told me that her group, mostly made up of Latino men and women, had become concerned with climate change because "migration is an effect of ecological destruction," which is caused, in large part, by fossil-fuel extraction and combustion, which drives climate change.

People have long been dying because of the local pollution caused by extraction and combustion - thousands annually die just from mercury pollution in the United States caused by the coal industry.

In 2010, climate scientist James Hansen called the Keystone XL "game over for the climate," primarily because its construction would allow for the extraction and combustion of the tar sands, which have a much larger carbon impact than conventional crude oil--as much as 17percentt higher emissions over its lifecycle.

That report comes on the heels of a study issued Tuesday by the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization, which stated that human civilization has pumped roughly 375 billion tonnes, or metric tons, of carbon into the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial age, when the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels began in earnest.

These impacts are due to the demand for grid electricity (for irrigation) from natural gas, fuel oil and coal in Italy (i.e. fossil resource consumption and toxicants, e.g. nickel beryllium, chromium, vanadium emitted during fossil fuel extraction and combustion) and the energy-intensive production processes for pesticides, herbicides and N fertilizers.

Oil and gas extraction, transportation and combustion drive up the cost of maintaining emergency services, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, water systems, habitats and agriculture.

Fossil fuel power creates pollution in the extraction, transportation, and combustion of its raw materials.

Air pollution and greenhouse gases will be slashed about 50%, but the real figure is much greater when you look at the lifecycle of the product compared to the extraction, refining, and combustion of petroleum for the same purpose.

From exploration, extraction, refining, transport and combustion, the effects include leaks and spills, carcinogens, air pollution, acid rain and climate instability.

Common to all is our dependence on fossil fuels: their extraction, mining, refining, transport and combustion.