They know that their cheap gas fosters pollution, traffic, contraband fuel smuggling across the Colombian border, and a wider culture of waste and inefficiency.
The government needs to foster low-pollution agriculture".
Utilities had supported the plan, believing it would foster innovation in pollution control; but critics argued that the tradable credits could enable polluters to actually increase their mercury emissions.
While a majority lack confidence in government's ability to get things done, they also recognize that effective government is needed to help address serious problems, like creating jobs, protecting consumers, limiting pollution, fostering affordable health care, developing new energy sources, making college education affordable, improving public schools, and even reducing poverty.
The Chinese authorities have also strived to foster transparency regarding environmental pollution, which has become a major social concern.
Its aim was to promote a vision of sustainable development by combatting poverty, disease and overpopulation; fostering conservation, atmospheric protection, pollution controls and biodiversity; and by establishing a greater role in all of this for non-state actors like women's groups, young people, NGOs and business.
The reason a Green Tea Party should coalesce to support this bill, argued Romm, is because it will set a price on carbon pollution and help foster commercialization of clean technologies — like hybrids, batteries and solar — at sufficient scale to enable the U.S. to rapidly ramp up when the seriousness of climate change becomes inescapably obvious to all.
A carbon cap should be seen as an opportunity to set a national limit on pollution and to foster the invention and development of the clean and efficient energy systems that will help meet it.
Saving time and money, fostering employment and entrepreneurialism, reducing pollution, and enabling farmers to improve the quality of their soil are worthy outcomes for any humanitarian design venture.
Vulnerability assessment of groundwater aquifers provides a basis for initially protective measures for important groundwater resources and will normally be the first step in a groundwater pollution hazard assessment and quality, when it interest (Foster 1987).
