The AirWatch application provides real - time data on specific
air pollutants from air - quality monitoring stations, as well as user - submitted descriptions of air quality in different areas.
Go to any mid-sized Chinese industrial city (especially in the winter) and you will be breathing a light brown mixture of black carbon, hydrocarbons, sulfur oxides, heavy metals and other real
air pollutants from coal.
Some major sources of hazardous air pollutants such as the Deer Park chemical manufacturing in Houston, TX (a subsidiary of OxyChem), could increase its emissions of hazardous
air pollutants from 0.64 to nearly 25 tons per year if it stops using MACT to control emissions.
Air pollutants from combustion accounted for $ 187.5 billion, mercury impacts as much as $ 29.3 billion, and climate contributions from combustion between $ 61.7 and $ 205.8 billion.
Canada continues to implement its nation - wide Air Quality Management System to reduce emissions of
air pollutants from industrial sources, as well as a suite of air pollution regulations for the transportation sector that reduce emissions of key SLCPs.
Solar is also reducing conventional
air pollutants from power plants — sulfur, nitrogen, and particulates — and the corresponding health benefits are greatest in the eastern United States.
These rules will also reduce VOCs, methane and hazardous
air pollutants from certain other sources within this sector.
Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion, which hinged on an interpretation of administrative law requirements and did not overturn EPA's ability to regulate hazardous
air pollutants from power plants.
About 100,000 people dieevery year due to exposure to
air pollutants from the burning of coal.
The world's most prestigious medical science journal, The Lancet, publised a paper puting numbers to the annual toll of deaths and serious illnesses in Europe due to
the air pollutants from burning coal to generate electricity.
In February, the EPA issued new guidance to weaken a policy that protects us from hazardous
air pollutants from major sources like power plants and chemical manufacturing facilities.
The American Lung Association supports reducing the sulfur levels in all gasoline, diesel, aviation, and marine fuels, and toxic
air pollutants from all mobile sources.
There are growing examples of co-benefits of mitigation and development policies, like those which can potentially reduce local emissions of health - damaging and climate - altering
air pollutants from energy systems.
The exaggerated effect in summer may be due to the heat cooking up
air pollutants from fossil fuels, creating ozone - rich smog.
Average concentrations of two major
air pollutants from 2000 to 2012 varied by U.S. region.
Particulates and other
air pollutants from coal - fired power plants cause somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 premature deaths in the United States each year.
Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful
air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.
Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic
air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators
Though mercury often originates as
an air pollutant from chlorine processing plants, coal - fired power plants, and the burning of medical waste, it can ultimately make its way into bodies of water.
Not exact matches
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing
pollutants found in
air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming
from reaching catastrophic levels.
Various geo - engineering schemes are being discussed for scrubbing CO2
from the
air and cleansing the atmosphere of the «
pollutant.»
Simultaneously, the Kuube removes airborne
pollutants like odors, allergens, dust and dander
from the
air without the use of filters.
Breastfed Babies Protected
From Dangerous
Air Pollutants A recent study shows two things.
Think about it: the
air we breathe is laden with impurities, like dust, germs,
pollutants, fumes
from perfumes, laundry detergents and other chemicals, pet dander... While an adult's nasal passages may be able to handle those impurities, a newborn's is so undeveloped that those impurities can irritate and clog up those passages.
«New green solvent could help clean our
air: Eco-friendly mixture made
from choline salt and urea could absorb harmful gaseous
pollutants.»
An international team of researchers analyzed economic and environmental data
from 2000 to 2009 and found that production of goods for export in 2006 alone accounted for between one - fifth and one - third of China's
air pollution, depending on the
pollutant.
«This is important because trees need to grow in order to perform valuable ecosystem services, such as removing
pollutants from the
air and storing carbon,» says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and co-author of the paper.
Nor is it just our eating habits that expose us to these
pollutants — we pick up tiny doses
from cosmetics and paper,
from the cushions and fabrics we sit on, the water we drink and the
air we breathe.
«Melting snow contains a toxic cocktail of
pollutants:
Air pollution
from cars affected by freezing temperatures and snow.»
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.
«Despite some reductions in
air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts
from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?
In contrast, trees can effectively remove
pollutants from the
air, and this may explain why they appear to be most beneficial where concentrations are high.»
But monitoring by the London
Air project
from King's College, London, showed that the rules had been breached by 9 pm on Thursday for the
pollutant, which is linked to heart and lung problems and even early deaths.
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.
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.
Fuels derived
from natural gas burn more cleanly than those derived
from crude oil because they don't contain components like nitrogen, sulfur, or carbon arranged in rings, which are notorious
air pollutants.
Volk: When if the mind boggling facts This is no local
pollutant: Every burst of CO2 that goes into the
air from some power plant in Illinois is going to spread equally all around the world, and the same goes for CO2 emissions
from China.
In addition to
air pollution data from state and local air agencies, these MESA Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 20
air pollution data
from state and local
air agencies, these MESA Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 20
air agencies, these MESA
Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 20
Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other
pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 2009.
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.
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.
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.
The 2010 studies
from Berkeley Lab found that residual nicotine can react with ozone and nitrous acid — both common indoor
air pollutants — to form hazardous agents.
Biochar
from recycled waste may both enhance crop growth and save health costs by helping clear the
air of
pollutants, according to Rice University researchers.
He reckoned that if he tested this reputedly pristine
air when a westerly wind was blowing in
from the Pacific, the Asian
pollutants might show up.
Satellite images and atmospheric models such as these have helped Jaffe demonstrate how mercury and other emissions
from China feed into a complex network of
air currents that distribute
pollutants across the globe.
Since
air from North America could not have contaminated Cheeka Peak with winds blowing
from the west, the next step was identifying the true source of the
pollutants.
Were the court to rule that
pollutants did constitute a nuisance, it could give emitters» opponents a tool apart
from the Clean
Air Act to tackle greenhouse gases.
Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding
from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of
air pollutants.
Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of
air pollutants,
from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.
South of the equator, however, the
air currents are predominantly
from the south, keeping the sky relatively free of man - made
pollutants.