Sentences with phrase «air emissions by»

Phasing out coal is one of the first steps the Cuomo administration must make if it hopes to meet its goal of drastically reducing air emissions by about 40 percent in the next decade, said Lisa Dix, senior New York representative for Sierra Club.

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The EPA offers grants and rebates for projects that improve air quality by reducing harmful emissions from diesel engines.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

The engine recently become the first class 8 on - highway truck engine to attain near - zero emissions certification by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

It means protecting our air, land and water by controlling all greenhouse gas emissions, from wellhead to waterline.

To tackle carbon emissions and air pollution, the country has become a leader in clean technology by embracing, wind, solar, nuclear, electric cars, and carbon capture.

These days, the major threat to clean air is now posed by traffic emissions.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today released a new report highlighting examples of significant strides by companies in managing and reducing waste, more efficiently using water and reducing air emissions.

Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground - breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (https://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/).

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.

However, Cooney added that even with the addition of a third gas station, the amount of emissions expected would not exceed air quality standards set by the state.

Public hearings involved testimony from environmental engineers on air quality and benzene emissions that were a cause for concern by neighboring residents and the park district.

The proposed gas station ignited a list of concerns that included traffic and noise but air pollution, specifically benzene emissions that can occur when pumping gasoline and its dangers when exposed to children, was a fear that was repeatedly hammered by both residents and park district officials.

For any product that contains MDF, we are required by law to follow the CARB (California Air Resource Board) regulations, which regulate and control formaldehyde emissions in MDF.

Air pollution has historically been caused by industrialisation and the consequent proliferation in the use of «fossil fuels» (and therefore sulphur dioxide emissions) in the industrial process.

But there has been a hitch: Despite the fact that DERA was supposed to be fully implemented by 2010, each year it has been delayed in the state's secret budget negotiations, allowing vehicles with antiquated emission controls used by the state and its contractors to continue to pollute our air and threaten the health of our communities.

To settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the state attorney general's office, NRG agreed last year to shut down four of its units at Tonawanda and to reduce its sulfur dioxide emissions by 80 percent.

Campaigners believe it will cause air pollution levels to soar, rendering impossible a 2015 emission target set by the European commission.

«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

The Health Effects Institute states that the neighborhoods by the Peace Bridge are not an air quality hot spot because emissions levels are similar or even better than in other urban areas.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the state has proposed a new regulation meant to improve air quality and protect public health by placing limits on emissions from diesel generators and natural gas - fired engines.

Cuomo announced that the state has proposed a new regulation meant to improve air quality and protect public health by placing limits on emissions from diesel generators and natural gas - fired engines.

Since, as the editorial points out, federal laws such as the Clean Air Act are not subject to the whim of this or any future president, carbon emissions also need to be addressed by federal legislation.

The toll tunnel may actually improve air quality by lowering emissions and fuel use.

Strict air quality regulations set by federal, state and regional agencies protect residents» health, she said, and the company has made significant efforts to cut its emissions.

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

Lighter and denser than wood, charcoal burns longer and produces fewer toxic emissions, reducing indoor air pollution by up to 90 percent.

Researchers have tried to get around this by coating the tips with chemicals that boost electron emission, but this can be problematic because some of the most effective ones burst into flames when exposed to air.

As a result, combined emissions of six common air pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanair pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanAir Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanair pollutants.

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

The technology can reduce heating expenses by 10 to 20 percent, with a commensurate drop in greenhouse - gas emissions, according to a spokesman for Carrier, which makes furnaces and air conditioners.

Aircraft emissions are expected to grow by 50 percent by 2050 as demand for air travel increases.

Aggressive measures to curtail the use of fossil fuels and emissions of so - called short - lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and HFCs would need to be accompanied by active efforts to extract CO2 from the air and sequester it before it can be emitted.

The 2011 UNEP / WMO assessment and the related article by Shindell et al. in Science in 2012 indicate that an aggressive program to limit emissions of these substances could relatively inexpensively cut projected warming between the present and 2050 in half while also having tremendous co-benefits for health, air quality, and improved energy efficiency, in the US and around the world.

If CO2 emissions reductions are moderately reduced in line with current national pledges under the Paris Climate Agreement, biomass plantations implemented by mid-century to extract remaining excess CO2 from the air still would have to be enormous.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

Under a regime using the Clean Air Act that the Obama Administration has already begun to roll out, the rules could cut as much as 800 million metric tons of emissions annually by 2030.

Using the higher figure in their calculations, they determined that a 67 percent reduction in NO emissions in the United States could reduce annual health impacts of agricultural air pollution by up to $ 660 million.

Biochar could reduce local air pollution from agriculture by reducing emissions of nitric oxide from soil, according to Rice University researchers.

A significant portion of the world's emissions of heat - trapping gases emitted by air conditioners, refrigeration and other applications comes from the developing world, finds a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

To get there the world would need to pull off zero emissions by mid-century, and after that countries would have to start removing a huge amount of greenhouse gases from the air.

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

It may also look for new ways of curbing emissions not currently covered by any targets, legal or otherwise — everything from international air travel and shipping to the soot from a billion African cooking stoves.