Tariff : Rates paid for electricity per kilowatt-hour consumed, or in this case, generated.
Toxic : harmful or poisonous.
Toxic Emissions: harmful or poisonous.
Toxic Sites: Land contaminated with toxic pollution, usually unsuitable for human habitation.
Toxic Waste: Garbage or waste that can injure, poison, or harm living things, and is sometimes life threatening.
Toxification : Poisoning.
Traffic Calming: Designing streets to reduce automobile speed and to enhance walking and bicycling. Also, the use of street design (i.e., speed bumps, traffic circles) to control the speed and flow of automobile traffic.
Transmission : The transfer of electric current from a power plant to a destination that could be hundreds of miles away.
Transportation : Any means of conveying goods and people.
Transportation Planning: Systems to improve the efficiency of the transportation system in order to enhance human access to goods and services. Also, the process by which new transportation facilities are designed, tested, and programmed.
Trash : Waste material that cannot be recycled and reused (i.e.garbage).
Turbine : A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion that in turn produces electricity.
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