Sentences with phrase «air quality improvement»

The inventories are used to evaluate regulatory policies for air quality improvements and to anticipate future emission scenarios that may occur with economic and population growth.

As air quality improvements continue to be achieved, so even more warming can be expected.

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing authorities is how to maintain the gains they have made on air quality improvement despite the estimated 1,000 new vehicles registered in the city each day.

This will contribute to both global carbon emissions reductions and local air quality improvements around major airports.

the amount apportioned to the State for the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program for fiscal year 2009, plus 10 percent of the amount apportioned to the State for the surface transportation program for that fiscal year; bears to

On the other side, the industry - friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter of support for the bill, describing it as «a common - sense plan that maintains continued air quality improvement without unnecessarily straining state and local economic resources.»

The U.S. Chamber wrote a letter of support for the bill, describing it as «a common - sense plan that maintains continued air quality improvement without unnecessarily straining state and local economic resources.»

The EPA has long been involved in pollution reduction and air quality improvement by testing and creating alternatives to engine idling of the 15.5 million trucks estimated to be operating in the U.S.

They include a transport fare cut, a pledge to replace the withdrawn EMA scheme, a London - wide lettings agency, an «Air Quality Improvement Fund», a «Cinema Discount Card» for young people, and, bizarrely, a party in Trafalgar Square just for the Portuguese - speaking diaspora.

Catalytic converters that warm up as fast as possible or — even better — already clean the exhaust gas efficiently during the first engine revolutions are thus vital for further significant air quality improvement.

In addition, a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine found that long - term air quality improvements led to «statistically and clinically significant positive effects on lung - function growth in children.»

In some areas, such as Eastern Europe, recent observations of a reversal in the sign of this effect link changes in solar radiation to concurrent air quality improvements.

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

«The Air Resources Board must recognize the urgent need for immediate air quality improvements and greenhouse gas reductions in low - income communities and communities of color in California,» said Tere Almaguer, youth program coordinator of PODER, who attended the COP 21 in Paris last December.

While new tailpipe rules will eventually require all cars and trucks to meet the same, lower standard for smog - forming emissions, policymakers should begin crafting new regulations to deliver additional air quality improvements and protect public health.

«The country could actually come out net positive, just based on the health co-benefits associated with air quality improvements, relative to the cost of a climate policy,» said study co-author Noelle Eckley Selin, an associate professor in MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).

A paper he published in the October issue of Environmental Research Letters (full article in pdf here) concludes that Beijing's claims to air quality improvement over the past decade may be more a matter of hot air than blue skies.

The sustainable building features of Hearthside Brookleigh will include energy - efficient appliances and lighting fixtures, indoor air quality improvements, a rainwater harvest system, LED outdoor lighting and more.

The funds, made available to the state through the Federal Highway Administration and administered by the New York State Department of Transportation, are provided through the Transportation Alternatives Program and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program.

As Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, I will continue to support robust funding for initiatives like the Transportation Alternatives Program and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program to enhance New York's infrastructure while protecting the environment.»

Projects will be selected through a competitive solicitation process that rates proposals based on criteria that includes public benefit, air quality improvement, and finance or delivery innovation.

The project is 80 percent federally funded through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program,» Legislator Rath said.

Results: Pollution controls in Beijing and the adjacent provinces were only part of the air quality improvement story during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Air quality improvements will continue as states add even more emission control technologies to achieve ozone standards set in 2008 under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program.

Hence, reductions in emissions from surface transportation in North America have a much larger near - term climate change mitigation effect than do such reductions in developing Asia, although both would lead to air quality improvements.

With effective implementation, building energy codes can support energy cost savings and complementary benefits associated with electricity reliability, air quality improvement, greenhouse gas emission reduction, increased comfort, and economic and social development.

By scaling up deployment of energy efficiency technologies, building energy codes can support significant energy cost savings, improved grid reliability, air quality improvements, and greenhouse gas emission reductions.

As for the air quality improvement claims, there is plenty of dirty fuel oil burned in New York City, it's true.