Sentences with phrase «air toxics in»

«Often, we think of climate change and air toxics in terms of effects on adults,» she said.

Not exact matches

While Chinese cities have recently hit more than 500 micrograms of PM 2.5 per cubic meter, Saudi Arabia, on a per - country average, has the most toxic air in the world.

Originally, I had planned to interview Branson there, but the festival and race had to be canceled due to wildfires in the region that filled the air with toxic smoke.

It won't get sick from working in extreme heat or cold, or from exposure to toxic substances or poor air quality.

There are pollutants in the air conditioning, toxic particles, dangerous bacteria and mold all flying around, especially in buildings that aren't well taken care of.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

My girls are breathing in toxic air every day.

The air quality in the surrounding valleys may be just as toxic.

Organic agriculture protects the health of people and the planet by reducing overall exposure to toxic chemicals from synthetic pesticides that can end up in the ground, air, water and food supply, and that are associated with health consequences, from asthma to cancer.

And adverse physical surroundings do play a role in children's development, especially when they are literally toxic, as when children are exposed to lead in their drinking water or carbon monoxide in the air they breathe.

This is because conventional laundry detergents are full of toxic chemicals and these chemicals leave a residue on your clothing that may be absorbed by your skin or may evaporate into the air for you to breathe in.

As an environmental engineer, I specialized in air quality and air toxic issues, including risk assessment, and Proposition 65, California's toxic exposure and warning law.

For this reason, the EPA has found the air quality in our homes to be 2 — 5 times more toxic than the air outside.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

Children should be «bussed in» from the countryside to breathe in London's air Boris Johnson claimed this week, as new figures revealed toxic levels of pollution in the capital.

Trump's sliding popularity, evident in polls taken since the first presidential debate, could convince Democrats that the GOP leader is too toxic to ignore on air.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (a coward / in my opinion) has the obligation to the people of our state to investigate all off these allegation's in a public forum and remove this tyrant who is quick to call a deceased 9/11 responder who had died from breathing in the toxic air at ground zero «not a hero» should be removed from public office and sent packing to his corporate headquarters were he and his cronies could abuse more pregnant women.I have a friend who was a 9/11 responder and was just notified that something was growing in his lungs.

Janeway also objected to a policy rider that would restrict disclosure of toxic and hazardous air pollution, including ammonia or hydrogen sulfide, released by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in rural communities.

The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean Air Act and the Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

Some days, it'll be hard to fathom how in the world you'll get through it (especially if the air in your lab is thick with Toxic Lab fumes), but you'll manage.

By breaking up petroleum into smaller droplets that dissolved faster in the deep ocean, the dispersants decreased the amounts of volatile toxic compounds that rose to the surface and outgassed into the air.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

Toxic Combination Two common types of fungi that live in the air and soil, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus, produce aflatoxin.

«We have little information about what happens to propylene glycol in the air,» the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says on its Web site.

While tougher regulations have driven lead levels down globally since the 1990s, mercury levels in the North Pacific Ocean have increased 30 percent over the last 20 years, potentially putting humans at higher risk of exposure from seafood (See «Made in China: Our Toxic, Imported Air Pollution»).

Some compounds, including more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, may volatilize back into the air, while others accumulate in the snow and are released with meltwater.

The technologies that have been developed «are just working tremendously well, and they're very effective in reducing the [particulate matter] and all the hydrocarbons and the air toxics to near zero levels,» he said.

Yates released 4.7 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, land and water in 2011, according to the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory datatoxic chemicals into the air, land and water in 2011, according to the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory dataToxic Release Inventory database.

The 2015 EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards regulation was estimated to cost the industry around of $ 9.6 billion annually in 2020.

Sionix, an Anaheim, Calif. — based corporation, which manufactures a treatment system that uses microscopic air bubbles to clean water, is testing whether its technology can also reduce levels of metal, namely iron and manganese (both toxic to the body in large amounts) in Santiago Creek near Villa Park Dam in Orange County, Calif..

Congressional leaders back in the politically turbulent 1970s managed to pass sweeping laws to ensure clean air and water, protect endangered species and keep toxic substances out of everyday household products.

In some cases, those new, natural processes proved more cost - effective for the company and became a new way of doing business, such as Portland's Prosoco, which completely reworked a formula to eliminate toxic phthalates from its air - tight liquid building wrap.

After seeing the regional effects in this new study, she agrees that the toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric air,» she says.

As gas eats into coal plants» profit margins, new limits on mercury and air toxics emissions taking effect in 2015 will take another bite.

Doctors believe he is one of a small but growing number of Vietnamese children who are third - generation victims of the toxic pesticides — in particular Agent Orange — that were sprayed over the country by the US Air Force at the height of the Vietnam War 30 years ago.

The biggest winner, in terms of absolute increases, is air toxics and quality, for which the administration is requesting a $ 17 million (16.3 %) increase.

Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed in hazy toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of air pollution in California.

Now researchers led by a group at Princeton University have developed a new technique using nanosize materials that sets the stage for new lenses that eliminate the errors and image distortion inherent in today's optical technology — and may one day be used to check for toxic chemicals in the air and the body.

The EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) applies to 1,400 of the country's largest power plants and would come into force in 2015, or in some cases, 2016.

That work, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on May 4, found that living near toxic sites leads to health impacts comparable to all the combined malaria issues in those three countries, or as much as the total negative impacts of air pollution.

As Elizabeth Grossman reveals in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the air, water, and soil.

Even as regulatory measures were put in place — the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act — epidemiologists hurried to analyze the risks.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

In babies born pre-closure, researchers found higher levels of PAH - DNA cord adducts, a biomarker for exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a toxic component of air pollution from coal plants.

Scientists now think that massive volcanic activity, in a Large Igneous Province called the Siberian Traps, raised air and sea temperatures and released toxic amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over a very short period of time.

Labs on the hit list include an air quality research center in Ames, Iowa, an acoustics laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi, and a tiny Utah center that studies «locoweeds,» plants that are toxic to livestock.

A similar strategy made it harder for opponents to challenge the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal plants in court, Holmstead said.

Comments from the state's Energy and Environment Cabinet note that ratepayers in the state would be stuck with a $ 4.5 billion bill for coal plants that were retrofitted to comply with EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards if they are not allowed to operate.

The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs in chemical assessments and blocked certain state air and water pollution laws.

The state declared endosulfan a toxic air contaminant in 2008, which triggered efforts to reduce people's exposure.