Sentences with phrase «air pollution controls from»

A Supreme Court case could undo a key piece of the Obama's environmental agenda, which hinges on whether the EPA should consider the costs of air pollution controls from coal plants.

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Schneiderman says the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by unreasonably delaying its obligation to control methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

«Unveiling this important information helps build the case for policies that ultimately serve to improve the lives of the Chinese people and the lives of those globally who suffer from high levels of air pollution,» says study co-author Maigeng Zhou, deputy director of the National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

That carries a big policy implication, Cohen says: It not only «makes both public health and economic sense to clean up dirty places,» but also means there could be significant health benefits from reducing air pollution even in areas that already have relatively tight controls.

«It's important,» he says, «because actions taken to improve air quality, and to improve public health, have to focus on [controlling emissions from] major sources of air pollution.»

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

National and state air pollution controls that went into effect in the early 1990s coincide with decreasing death rates from emphysema, asthma and pneumonia among people in North Carolina, according to a study led by Duke University researchers.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

These harmful substances include: pesticides, medications, Bisphenol - A and other chemicals found in our environment, hormones from food, the birth control pill and air pollution.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 amended prior law to exclude the following types of facilities from those which can be financed on a tax - exempt basis: sports facilities; convention and trade show facilities; air and water pollution control facilities; privately owned airport, dock, wharf and mass - commuting facilities; and most parking facilities, among others.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

The U.S. Environment Protection Agency finalized the Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule today to protect people from exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers.

Many of Southern Company's power plants were exempted from the Clean Air Act's 1977 requirements to install modern pollution control equipment because they were built from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Ditto for the very real and measurable air pollution savings that accompanied government mandated shift from leaded gas, and increased pollution controls on our cars.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

This evening, shortly after George W. Bush signed the weakened Energy Bill into law, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced that California (and the 16 states that had pledged to adopt California's standards) will not be granted a waiver from the clean air act to put stricter pollution controls on vehicles and drive a higher CAFE standard than is included -LSB-...]

Stepping back from there, Hansen looks at 1940 and above: «The approximate stand - still of global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible» That's the excuse and it is laughable.

would let a plant meet clean air act goals without scrubbers or other pollution control equipment,...» A coal flue scrubber removes 90 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.

When the Clean Air Act was passed decades ago, coal plants received special treatment that effectively exempted them from controlling their pollution and safely disposing of their waste, a gift that has allowed them to keep operating and profiting at the expense of Americans around the country who are getting sick and dying prematurely from exposure to coal plant pollution.

Steadily improving air pollution controls have sent sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. coal - fired power plants tumbling by more than 40 % and particulate emissions (the alleged cause of asthma) by more than 90 % since 1970, says air quality expert Joel Schwartz, even as coal use tripled.

If a US coal unit installs control technologies to meet the most stringent air pollution regulation, it could increase operating costs by 13 % when the capacity factor declines from 60 % to 40 %.

Major Environmental Issues: Erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertilizer use.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

As black carbon is a leading cause of mortality from air pollution and accelerates the melting of glaciers that provide fresh water for millions, controlling these emissions is critical to promote sustainable development, improve human health and save lives.

Last month, Howard Frumkin, who directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health, testified before a Senate committee that the CDC «considers climate change a serious public health concern» that could accelerate illnesses and deaths stemming from heat waves, air pollution, and food - and water - borne illnesses.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

Again, the point here is that while a handful of companies whose profit margins are improved by being able to pollute may be hindered by air pollution controls, the economy at large sees substantial benefits from everybody else not having to breathe unhealthy air.