Sentences with phrase «air quality standards»

They indicate that higher ozone concentrations, even at levels below current air quality standards in most of the world, have significant negative effects on worker productivity.
Every home is equipped with energy saving heating and cooling systems and indoor air quality standards where minimal maintenance is required.
In short, communities around the world (in developing and developed countries) are confronted by a reality that falls far short of recommended air quality standards.
Yet another key fact: The public does not distinguish greenhouse gas standards from other air quality standards.
A design value is the three - year average of pollution concentrations measured at each monitoring location and is used to determine whether a county is in attainment with federal air quality standards.
«For reference, the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standard for fine aerosol is an annual average of 12 μg / m3.
The bill would require the EPA to review the national ambient air quality standards for each pollutant every ten years, instead of every five, and would require the agency to evaluate possible adverse effects of standard changes.
«Court sides with EPA for not setting new standard»: The Associated Press has a report that begins, «A federal appeals court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency was justified in not establishing a new air quality standard for acid rain.»
Future emissions reductions from trucks and other freight sources are essential for meeting air quality standards and protecting the health of those who live and work close to ports, rail yards, and freight corridors.
But the combined city / highway EPA fuel economy rating hovers right around 20 mpg, and the vehicle doesn't pass stringent air quality standards of California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
It seems that rules for getting Greenguard certification don't assess relative levels of goodness, just whether it is better than the standard they set, which in this case is 1 / 10th the American workplace standard or the National Ambient Air Quality Standard set by the EPA.
However, Cooney added that even with the addition of a third gas station, the amount of emissions expected would not exceed air quality standards set by the state.
«It reached approximately two - thirds of the U.S. air quality standard at several sites along the West Coast,» he reports.
In 1997, when the Clinton administration was finalizing the first - ever air quality standards on fine soot, protesters in white lab coats appeared on Capitol Hill holding signs that said, «Harvard, release the data!»
ven so, during 2010 - 2014 people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the U.S. health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.
«The fine - particle dust concentrations exceed the WHO air quality standard and could have broader implications on respiratory health throughout the region, including in the Caribbean and the southeastern United States.»
It does not, however, pass the stringent air quality standards of California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Greg Steele of the REALTORS ® Association of Edmonton commends Justice Minister Jonathan Denis for accepting all 37 recommendations in the report, including those for provincial air quality standards — something for which Alberta REALTORS ® have been advocating for several years.
California has long been leading the US towards environmentally sound policies, starting with air quality standards in the early 1970s.
The predicted 21 ppt and 14 ppt peak concentrations of MSA and H2SO4 observed, respectively, at 06:00 h and 14:00 h correspond to mass concentrations of only 0.08 μg · m − 3 and 0.06 μg · m − 3, respectively, well below current air quality standards for PM2.5.
Given that not everyone has the same air quality standards it's possible that cars with the «defeat device» installed don't violate the rules in all countries, which is something that regulators around the world are going to have to determine.
What's more, it looks increasingly likely that the EPA will attempt to revoke the Clean Air Act waiver that allows California to set its own air quality standards (and thus its own fuel economy standards).
Also in play are panels under the auspices of individual committees to address specific topics like air quality standards for a particular pollutant.
In March 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency issued new national air quality standards limiting ozone smog.
«As air quality standards become more stringent, people are going to be thinking about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an author of the study.
So as Europe and the United States have tightened air quality standards and cleaned up emissions from power plants, sulfates in the atmosphere have been reduced as well.
Although no federal indoor air quality standards protect women and children in schools, the Environmental Protection Agency does provide some guidance for schools.
By contrast, U.S. cities exceed air quality standards when PM10 concentrations reach 150 micrograms per cubic meter.
The US EPA says that a buffer that could be in place by next year could «save 8,000 lives a year with new air quality standards cutting sulphur in fuel by 98 %, particulate matter by 85 % and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 %.»
However, stricter EU air quality standards will focus utilities to decide between investing in already unprofitable plants or cutting their losses.
Forthcoming air quality standards and carbon prices are pushing up coal operating costs while clean technology costs continue to fall.
Current air quality standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are based largely on studies with adults, but recent research has confirmed that children are more sensitive to air pollution, said Adam Spanier, division head of general pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
In 2009, well before the latest EPA regulations, Colorado was struggling to meet environmental air quality standards.
In 2013, the Government of Canada established more stringent and comprehensive outdoor air quality standards for fine particulate matter (a component of which is black carbon) and ground - level ozone.
In northern mid-latitudes during summer, the zonal average increases near the surface are about 30 ppb or more, raising background levels to nearly 80 ppb, threatening attainment of air quality standards over most metropolitan and even rural regions, and compromising crop and forest productivity.
The Particulate Matter Coalition is described in the 2005 annual report (PDF) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as being «made up of industries concerned with EPA's continued revision of the particulate matter air quality standards.
Though there aren't any specified air quality standards for ammonia put forth by the EPA, companies are nonetheless required to report their emissions.
Emissions of these pollutants from upwind states prevent downwind states from achieving air quality standards.
Also this week, the Sierra Club released new maps demonstrating that sulfur dioxide emissions from the Danskammer coal plant could cause violations of the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standard across six counties and over Storm King State Park, Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park and Bear Mountain State Park.
Environmental impact assessment requirements under the Environmental Assessment Act and air quality standards under the Environmental Protection Act are now combined in the single renewable energy approval process.
CREB and its provincial partner, the Alberta Real Estate Association (AREA), are also calling on the province to adopt air quality standards for properties of all kinds and to complete the review of the Condominium Property Act it began three years ago.
The EPA eventually ruled that the emissions from this power plant alone caused the violations of the SO2 national ambient air quality standards in the downwind state, New Jersey.
You can rest assured your Pergo floor is safe and meets the strictest indoor air quality standards in the world because third party laboratories verify this.
The company also reports that its dyeing method is less polluting and requires less energy to produce than other flooring options, and that all of its carpets have been tested and meet indoor air quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Nearly one half of all Americans — an estimated 150 million — live in areas that don't meet federal air quality standards.

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