Sentences with phrase «air of acid rain»

As a program under the Clean Air Act, the cap - and - trade system achieved enormous success in ridding the air of acid rain.

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While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

Founded in 1982 to fight against acid rain, AQLPA expanded its mandate in 1992 to fight against all forms of air pollution.

Deregulation of heavy industry's air pollution has resulted in acid rain and dying lakes in both nations.

There is also growing understanding of the links between atmospheric problems such as local air pollution, acid rain, global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion.

«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes damaged by acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.

Ammonia helps neutralize sulfuric acid and other acids in air pollution, so removing it from southern California skies could raise the risk of acid rain.

Cap - and - trade programs, such as the Clean Air Act's acid rain program, are an excellent example of this approach.

A known health hazard and contributor to acid rain, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is one of six air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

Beyond basic subjects such as climate and weather, this site from the U.K. Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs covers a wide range of pressing atmospheric science issues including acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming and ozone depletion.

It is estimated that the country is losing some 8 percent of its wealth each year to pollution, with the toll including everything from crops destroyed by acid rain to spiraling health costs due to poor air and water quality.

Britain's continuing problems with acid rain, air pollution, waste management and other environmental headaches mean that there will be plenty of work for the laboratory in the years to come.

Other countries have blamed the thinning of tree crowns on air pollution, mainly acid rain.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

Jimmy Carter was a sadly ineffective president, but he wanted electric cars and mass transit — just because it was better for the planet and the right of all to breathe clean, fresh air and to keep acid rain from ruining the paint jobs on our brand new $ 3,000 Chevy's and roadrunners.

Full of SO2 air, acid rain, polluted rivers, air all are the evidents of China is going wrong way, but greed of Chinese can not stop their action.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

Sherwood L. Boehlert, a moderate Republican congressman who was first elected to represent Utica, N.Y., in 1982, said it took eight years of fighting for acid rain controls to be added to the Clean Air Act in 1990.

For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, soil erosion, acid rain, destruction of rainforests, ozone depletion - the list goes on.»

We have a massive trash pile accumulating in the North Pacific, huge dead zones (no life due to lack of oxygen) along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastline, acid rain, mercury contamination of ponds and lakes in the northeast, poor air quality, rapid loss of fish and bird species in the past 30 years and extensive loss of forests and wetlands.

Nevertheless representatives of the power companies parroted the «findings» for several years to claim that acid rain was NOT related to industrial air pollution.

The Initiative was modeled on the 1990 Clean Air Act's acid rain program, which put SO2 under a cap and trade plan (see Dispelling the myths of the acid rain story).

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

Beyond the effects on climate discussed below, these include air pollution, acid rain, marine and freshwater eutrophication, biodiversity loss, and the stimulation of some invasive species.

For example, a tax on coal that incorporated the increased health care costs associated with mining it and breathing polluted air, the costs of damage from acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption would encourage investment in clean renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costair pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costAir Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

And anyway, carbon dioxide is fully part of the Water Cycle, which CAGW / AGWs have excised from their calculations, every time it rains it clears the air of carbon dioxide, all pure clean rain is carbonic acid.

These systems also minimize the threats of acid rain, air pollution, the greenhouse effect and global warming — problems directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels.

Cap and trade was first used to remove lead from gasoline and then worked into amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 to force power plants to cut back on sulfur dioxide, one of the chemicals that produce acid rain.

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

Acid Rain Retirement Fund» The Acid Rain Retirement Fund was founded to prevent air pollution by buying it right out of the sky.

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.

This accessible book presents in clear, jargon - free language the science of global change, including human - induced climate change, the ozone hole, acid rain, and air pollution.

Carbon dioxide is fully part of that water cycle where water heated by the thermal infrared direct from the Sun evaporates and anyway lighter than air rises in air and takes away heat from the surface — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, the water vapour spontaneously joining with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere releases its heat in the colder heights and condenses out back into liquid water and ice, cooling the Earth from the 67 °C it would be without the water cycle.

First off — air pollution, acid rain, climate change, wars in the Middle East and political entanglements with nice regimes like Saudi Arabia, just off the top of my head.

«Instead, the US economy grew by 64 percent even as the implementation of Clean Air Act Amendments cut acid rain pollution in half.»

The legislation, which is modeled after the successful acid rain trading program of the 1990 Clean Air Act, would require a reduction to 2000 carbon dioxide emission levels by the year 2010, and a reduction to 1990 levels by the year 2016.

The approach has successfully reduced the emissions of acid rain causing pollutants through a program established in the 1990 Clean Air Act.

... the same kind of arguments they used against acid rain, they used against the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.

The regulations being crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expected to go into force next April and November 2011 in accordance with the Clean Air Act, are part of a long ratcheting back of mercury, acid rain, and smog - forming emissions from utility smokestacks.

Other air pollutants, which contribute to acid rain and can cause respiratory problems - sulphur dioxide (SO2), ammonia (NH3), particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)- were found to cause $ 38 - 105 billion of damage a year.

Denny is a co-author of the leading books on the US SO2 and the EU CO2 Allowance Trading Programs, Markets for Clean Air: The US Acid Rain Program and Pricing Carbon: The European Emissions Trading Scheme.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

Almost 20 years since the signing of the Clean Air Act of 1990, the cap - and - trade system continues to let polluters figure out the least expensive way to reduce their acid rain emissions.

· Clean Air: Other sources of electricity produce harmful particulate emissions which contribute to global climate change and acid rain.