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It was like breathing through a wet bath towel.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)
Use of fly ash is particularly appealing: not only does it reduce the energy cost of producing more clinker, but it also avoids landfilling the captured fly ash and extracting new raw minerals and it is the most effective way to curb CO2 emissions.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
It was raining in the ’Glades, and perhaps enough rain would be left to reach the city and cool it off a little during the night. Hoke finished his cigarette and tossed it off the parapet into the swimming pool behind the hotel.
Charles Willeford • Miami Blues (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 1)
Rising forty thousand feet into the stratosphere, the plume’s colossal umbra lowered average temperatures by several degrees, caused birds to roost at midday, and created weird visual effects as it circled the Northern Hemisphere, including widespread reports of lavender suns and blue moons.
John Vaillant • Fire Weather
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economic growth. Open-cast mining and the ever-growing appetite of industry decimated forests and wild-lands. New and dangerous chemicals were excreted into rivers and the atmosphere.
Ramachandra Guha • Environmentalism
Environmental toxins, such as excess UV exposure, pollution, and cigarette smoke. These toxins enter your body
Naomi Whittel • Glow15
The numbers regarding Koch Industries’ pollution were incontrovertible. In 2012, according to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory database, which documents the toxic and carcinogenic output of eight thousand American companies, Koch Industries was the number one producer of toxic waste in the United States. It generated 950 million pounds of hazardou
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