Sentences with phrase «air act prevented»

A recent report by the US Environmental Protection Agency... found that cutting pollution through the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 premature deaths in 2010 as well as over 1.7 million asthma attacks last year — benefits that would be lost if these politically motivated bills and amendments were to pass.

That's getting easier to do, thanks to new laws that many states have passed against lighting up; meanwhile, the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 early deaths in 2010 alone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

A recent study by EPA researchers showed that, in 2010 alone, the Clean Air Act prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 cases of heart disease and 1.7 million asthma attacks, not to mention 86,000 hospital admissions and millions of respiratory illnesses.

Not exact matches

A closed system's diaphragm acts as a barrier, which protects expressed milk from outside air that is being drawn through the pump's tubes, and it prevents milk from leaking into the tubing.

They act as a solid barrier to prevent air, moisture, and milk from entering into pump tubing.

In an early morning communication, Hochul's office reported that an amendment added to the Defense Authorization Act should prevent proposed Pentagon cuts to the Air National Guard.

The common treatment for sleep apnea is a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) device that delivers air (acting like an air splint) to prevent collapse of the airway and breathing pauses.

Thompson and Solomon (2002) showed that the Southern Annular Mode (a pattern of variability that affects the westerly winds around Antarctica) had been in a more positive phase (stronger winds) in recent years, and that this acts as a barrier, preventing warmer air from reaching the continent.

Dress Your Strands To further prevent hair from acting like a sponge and soaking moisture in the air, dress your strands in a protective, soothing coat — regardless if your hair's dry, curly, or straight.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

All it ever did was enforce the Clean Air Act, drastically reduce air and water pollution, save tens of thousands of lives annually, prevent an untold numberAir Act, drastically reduce air and water pollution, save tens of thousands of lives annually, prevent an untold numberair and water pollution, save tens of thousands of lives annually, prevent an untold number of

But Perry's argument, which seems to amount to «environmentalists make a bunch of ballyhoo about pollution, but prosperity and the free market have prevented that dangerous pollution over the last 40 years», astonishingly omits any reference to the Clean Air Act that forced industry to apply pollution controls.

Recent legal decisions that Earthjustice has helped to secure have affirmed EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate pollution from vehicles and industrial facilities, but anti-environmental members of Congress and the dirty energy industry are determined to prevent any action to reduce dangerous climate pollution.

Or, said Mills, «Congress has the authority to pass laws that violate the laws of nature and common sense, or that don't... They can clarify the Clean Air Act» to prevent it from applying to carbon dioxide.

When an air pollutant is listed, the Act requires States to regulate emissions to prevent pollution from exceeding EPA standards.»

Since the air descends dry adiabatically and becomes warmer than the surroundings, there is an upward force acting on it that prevents the descent.

All five of these groups have recently lobbied to prevent US EPA from controlling greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

In 2020, the study projects the Clean Air Act will prevent more than 230,000 cases of premature mortality, 200,000 heart attacks, 17 million lost work days and 2.4 million asthma attacks.

Phrased differently, the previously frozen sea ice acts as an insulator between the salt water below the sea ice and the Arctic air above the sea ice — preventing BOTH evaporation losses from the water AND radiation losses to the 12 hours of night air when the sun doesn't shine.

As it radiates through the transparent air and cools, the still air acts as an insulator and prevents the ambient air, well ABOVE freezing, from keeping the fruit at ambient.

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from issuing any regulations on greenhouse - gas emissions over the next year — despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled the agency has the responsibility to regulate those emissions as a public - health threat under the Clean Air Act.