Youâll have a runny or stuffy nose (sometimes both in the same day), watery eyes, probably a sore throat, and maybe a cough. As if that werenât enough, your body will hurt, youâll be tired, and youâll probably run a fever over 100.
Nuclear Electric Power = 11.3%. The generation of electric power produces more pollution than any other single industry in the U.S. In 2009, the U.S. electricity industry was responsible for: Â· 67% of all emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), the leading component of acid rain and fine particulates.
Backyard waste burning in old barrels. Dioxin emissions from plastic burning. The most dangerous emissions can be caused by burning plastics containing organoch-. lor-based substances like PVC. When such plastics are burned, harmful quantities of. dioxins, a group of highly toxic chemicals are emitted. Dioxins are the most toxic to the. human organisms.