Among the supporters of cleaner heating oil is the New York Oil Heating Association, a trade group of heating oil dealers in New York City, which notes that a less polluting product allows oil to be competitive with natural gas as a heating source on the environmental front.
In 2011, the Chinese government for the first time set targets for a less polluting course of growth, and began rolling out new solar and wind plants.
Some of this is down to people having smaller disposable incomes in the recession, and some due to policy-led changes that encourage a less polluting lifestyle.
Calderon-Garciduenas et al. (2002) found that dogs living in a highly polluted region in Mexico City had increased brain inflammation compared with those living in a less polluted area.
Barry Bearak (NYT) INDIA: ON THE ROAD AGAIN -- Traffic returned to normal in New Delhi after the city government defied a court order and extended a deadline for public transport operators to convert to compressed natural gas, a less-polluting fuel.
Another study documented magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) lesions and deficits of memory and executive function among children (Calderón-Garcidueñas et al. 2008a) living in highly polluted Mexico City (n = 55), compared with children from a less polluted area (n = 18).
Taken together, these and other pending rules should lead to a dramatically less polluting fleet of power plants, a process already set in motion by the rapid decline in natural gas prices.
Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton, almost uninhabitable.
There should be exceptions to allow countries to favour goods made in less polluting ways.According to Mr Brack, in some circumstances they may be right.
