Sentences with phrase «air pollutants emitted»

The required regulatory filings to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (here and here) listed all the air pollutants emitted and their amounts.

So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer - causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.

The researchers also looked at air pollutants emitted during both shale - gas extraction and electricity generation.

For the coal system, the study estimates the toxicity associated with air pollutants emitted during power generation, as well as toxic chemical releases during the coal - mining process from acid - mine drainage and coal - ash impoundment.

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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.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

And toxic chemicals that emit hazardous air pollutants are used during manufacturing.

Some forests emit chemicals called terpenes that when catalysed by sunlight are known to react with air pollutants to create ozone.

Seven of those facilities each emit at least 10 annual tons of hazardous air pollutants, including the carcinogens benzene and formaldehyde.

Teaming up with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor of Chemistry at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive study to investigate the nature and impact of pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent cultural practice of open - air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.

Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter air pollution, about 12 percent were related to pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.

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.

(He will also track participants» exposure to indoor air pollutants, such as the volatile organic compounds emitted by paint and furniture.)

Once emitted into the air, key nitrogen pollutants — ammonia and nitrogen oxides — can be transformed to secondary pollutants such as ammonium and nitrates, and then washed to Earth by rain and snow.

Though pinene is naturally emitted, its behavior is comparable enough to better anticipate the way other compounds, like those in pollutants, smog, and haze, will react in the air.

Plant - emitted hydrocarbons break down through chemical interactions with certain air pollutants such as ozone.

Air pollutants interact with and break down plant - emitted scent molecules, which insect pollinators use to locate needed food, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State.

«The increased use of clean energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gases or conventional air pollutants... would be doubly beneficial to global food security, as they do not contribute to either climate change or increased surface - ozone concentrations,» she said.

The chemical industry relies on catalysts for 90 percent of its processes — everything from refining oil, turning petroleum into plastic, and producing fertilizers food and medicine, to scrubbing the air of noxious pollutants emitted from cars and factories.

The Court majority, however, cast aside Chevron deference, read the sentence to mean that anything emitted per se is an «air pollutant,» and concluded that greenhouse gases fit the bill.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents said they weren't aware of this lack of disclosure and wouldn't continue to use a fragranced product if they knew it emitted potentially hazardous air pollutants.

Prior research found that common fragranced products — even those labeled «green» or «organic» — emit a range of hazardous air pollutants, the researchers behind the new study said.

She asked him to explain his dissent in the 2007 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.

And because power plants emit many dangerous air pollutants that are subject to many parts of the Clean Air Act, there is no plausibility to the story that Congress wanted EPA to pick one poison and let the other go frair pollutants that are subject to many parts of the Clean Air Act, there is no plausibility to the story that Congress wanted EPA to pick one poison and let the other go frAir Act, there is no plausibility to the story that Congress wanted EPA to pick one poison and let the other go free.

Burning biomass can emit recognized air pollutants, including particulate matter and other carcinogens, which cause premature death and endanger respiratory health.

The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their exposure to pollutants emitted can be more immediate and disproportionately harmful.

However, urban air quality would actually improve since the pollutants are emitted from power plants that are generally located outside cities.

What's more, wind and solar plants don't even fall under the domain of the Clean Air Act, he said, as the law only regulates «sources» which emit air pollutanAir Act, he said, as the law only regulates «sources» which emit air pollutanair pollutants.

Compared to coal, the use of natural gas for power generation emits 50 percent fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and even more substantial reductions in traditional air pollutants.

The new techniques impact far less land surface, use and recycle brackish water, and emit fewer air pollutants and (plant - fertilizing) carbon dioxide every year.

It has sometimes been quoted that just a few ships (all using fuel oil with maximum permitted sulphur content) emit as much harmful air pollutants as all the cars in the world (if the cars were all using the cleanest fuel available).

Traditional gas - fired forced air and oil - burning heating systems operate through an antiquated combustion process that emit harmful pollutants and exhaust into the environment.

Fracking emits large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane and other air pollutants.

Once in full operation, Cove Point will also emit thousands of tons of dangerous air pollutants and millions of tons of greenhouse gases that will only add to increased climate disruption.

The Clean Air Act clearly says that Section 111 can not be used to regulate pollutants emitted from a source category which is already regulated under Section 112.

Thus EPA agrees that CAA section 111 (d)(1)(A) should read «[t] he Administrator shall prescribe regulations which... establish -LSB--RSB- standards of performance for any existing source for any air pollutant... which is not... emitted from a source category which is regulated under section 112.»

Whereas only large industrial facilities emit enough smog - and soot - forming air pollutants (100/250 tons per year) to meet the PSD / Title V major source applicability thresholds, millions of non-industrial facilities — big box stores, office buildings, churches, hospitals, schools, Dunkin Donut shops — emit enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to meet the thresholds.

This is because HF has unleashed vast supplies of clean, affordable gas, and this in turn has allowed natural gas to produce much more of America's electricity — with natural gas emitting half the carbon emissions as other sources and virtually no hazardous air pollutants.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Geothermal and biomass systems emit some air pollutants, though total air emissions are generally much lower than those of coal - and natural gas - fired power plants.

In January 2016, Scenic Hudson and a coalition of partners filed a lawsuit against Global, claiming that Global failed to obtain a required air pollution permit and institute necessary pollution controls when it modified its Albany facility in 2012 to allow a five-fold increase in the amount of crude oil handled at the facility and that Global has violated its air permit by handling Bakken crude, which emits far more air pollutants than conventional crude oil.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

Abstract - Fossil fuel combustion processes that generate greenhouse gases (GHG) also emit and or cause the creation of other harmful air pollutants.

Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas, estimated that two million pounds of air pollutants were emitted during Harvey, compared to more than five million pounds emitted in all of 2016 (New York Times, Sept. 8).

Recent scientific studies reveal that, in addition to methane, the oil and gas industry is also responsible for emitting other hazardous air pollutants, including Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), which can form smog, and Benzene, which can cause cancer.

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Since greenhouse gases come within the capacious phrase «any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air,» they must also be «air pollution agent [s] or combination [s] of such agents,» and therefore meet the definition of «air pollutant [s].»

Hydropower has some well - known environmental impacts, especially on rivers and aquatic ecosystems, but it produces few or no air contaminants, whereas burning natural gas emits many pollutants, including climate - changing greenhouse gases.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.