Sentences with phrase «air pollutants like»

Going solar reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change, and also results in fewer air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, which can cause health problems.
That BACT process works well enough for traditional air pollutants like sulfur dioxide or particulates, but for CO2 it's... awkward.
Air pollutants like ozone and nitrogen dioxide have been linked to a range of health problems in humans — from respiratory inflammation to cancer, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Meanwhile, national oil and gas production has been booming, with few regulations to keep air pollutants like methane in check.
The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.
High temperatures also worsen deadly air pollutants like ozone, which is linked to respiratory illnesses such as asthma.

Not exact matches

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutantslike 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.
Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO2, a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NOx, SO2, and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.
There are many different types of changes in an ambient environment — some very fast like electromagnetic waves, some very slow like the accumulation of pollutants in the air, and some with rapid onsets and offsets but long durations like rainfall.
Simultaneously, the Kuube removes airborne pollutants like odors, allergens, dust and dander from the air without the use of filters.
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.
And unlike exposure to other pollutants like cigarette smoke, air isn't optional.
Human nasal epithelial cells, cultured on a microchip, react to air pollutants just like they would in the upper airway.
This wearable device reveals exposure to the three worst pollutants, linking it with online maps to help you avoid poor air, a bit like a Fitbit for pollution
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.
Called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, the stringent new regulations limit not only mercury but also acid gases like hydrochloric acid, heavy metals like arsenic, and other toxic pollutants — and require companies to comply by 2017.
Formed in the presence of sunlight by water vapor and pollutants like ozone and nitrogen oxides, hydroxyl is hard to measure, because it persists for just a second in the air before it reacts away.
Beijing's air is full of pollutants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and notably, particulate matter (microscopic particles like those in engine exhaust).
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.
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.
In addition to providing the air we breathe and the weather we experience, the troposphere is laced with a compound called the hydroxyl radical — abbreviated OH — which bonds to pollutants like bromines and droplets of sulfates called aerosols.
And when these ships are dismantled under primitive conditions, like on the beaches outside Chittagong, a number of pollutants are released into the air.
The Monsoon also acts like an enormous elevator, pumping vast amounts of air and pollutants from the surface up to levels above 16 kilometers altitude.
Though other tactics for combating household toxins (like houseplants, beeswax candles, and reducing pollutants) definitely help, air filters are necessary for a clean indoor air environment.
Use a screening tool like our toxic exposures questionnaire to explore her exposure to environmental toxins like skin care products, household cleaners, make up, or air pollutants.
Environmental chemicals like air pollutants, cleaning additives, and BPA are huge sources.
Toxins are potentially harmful substances we come into contact with every day — from pesticides on your produce, pollutants in the air, unpronounceable ingredients in processed foods, cleaning products, and even heavy metals like mercury and arsenic in the soil, just to name a few.
The standards we recommend in this report would also significantly reduce emissions of other air pollutants, specifically smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic pollutants like benzene that cause cancer and are associated with a host of other health problems.
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.
(e) Take steps to address other sources of short - lived climate pollutants like black carbon, methane, tropospheric ozone and hydrofluorocarbons, some of which contribute to air pollution.
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.
While the stable form of nitrogen in the air is no problem, «reactive nitrogen» — the chemically active form in things like ammonia and the air pollutant nitrogen oxide — can be.
Part of the rationale I guess is the photo - catalysed removal of some pollutants like nitrates from the air by the TiO2.
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.
Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO2, a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NOx, SO2, and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.
When we cut down carbon pollution, we also reduce the amount of other harmful air pollutants spewed out by power plants, like fine particles — and that's a double bonus for health.
During the Bush administration, the EPA has rejected the idea that greenhouse gases should be regulated like soot, smog precursors and other kinds of air pollution, despite an April 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said carbon dioxide fit the definition of a pollutant that could be regulated under the Clean Air Aair pollution, despite an April 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said carbon dioxide fit the definition of a pollutant that could be regulated under the Clean Air AAir Act.
Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health care costs and missed work days?
the always «on» hood acts in eliminating odors and pollutants from organic molecules suspended in the air like cigarette smoke and smells from cleaning supplies.»
«To maximize cooling benefits, it can be an incentive for places like India to promote mechanisms that reduce pollutant content and cooling needs and increase air quality and thus improve human health.»
As Carnegie's grantees, Caldeira and Persad aim to help countries optimize how they meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement by focusing on the short - lived air pollutants, like soot, which are co-emitted by many of the same processes that emit the longer - lived carbon dioxide that is the main focus of most countries» Paris commitments.
Just like the paint on your walls, the stuff holding your house together can off - gas volatile organic compounds and other hazardous air pollutants that are not good for you, but you can avoid the headache (literally) of dealing with these with something like Titebond's GreenChoice.
I dig clean air, and most of the actual pollutants (not silly CO2) end up as water pollution that water - geeks like myself have to find a way to remove anyway.
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