The move, which follows similar pledges this year from Bank of America and Crédit Agricole, will make it more difficult for companies producing coal, a major source of pollution and contributor to climate change, to finance future projects.
As a comparison, they also calculated air pollution, a known contributor to cardiac hospitalization, based on measures of ozone and fine particulate matter.
He was the first surgeon general to issue health warnings on cigarette packs (1966), cautioned that air pollution was a contributor to lung disease, and raised concerns about the psychological effects of violent television.
After years of controversy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) today tightened its national limits on ground-level ozone pollution, a main contributor to smog.
OO Air Pollution Now Major Contributor To Stroke, Global Study Finds - up to one third of them.
"The indigenous peoples of Peru's Northern Amazon have endured over 30 years of oil production and pollution," writes FPIF contributor James Polk in Time to Strengthen Ties to Peru.
Vehicles emit pollutants that are significant contributors to air pollution inside and at the outlet of tunnels.
Factory farms are huge contributors to pollution and some of them contribute as much air and water pollution as a small city.
Biotechnologies are part of the solution to environmental problems as well as being contributors to pollution, e.g., when materials are released during bioprocessing.
Oil exploration, production, transport, and discharges of mainly drilling wastes, operational sludge, and oily fluids from unused fracturing fluids or acids are major contributors to pollution levels in the Persian Gulf (Madany et al. 1998; ROPME 2013).
