Sentences with phrase «amounts of air pollutants»

China's booming economy during the last 30 years has led to the building of enormous manufacturing factories, industrial plants, power plants and other facilities that produce huge amounts of air pollutants.

Cutting down on the amount of air pollutants being released every day is the best approach for a cleaner local atmosphere, but in areas where massive amounts of smog are produced, finding an efficient way to clean the air is taking center stage.

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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.

The project also improves the air quality in the region by reducing the amount of pollutants emissions contained in the landfill gas such as hydrogen sulphide which an cause nausea, delirium, headaches, and skin and eye irritation.

Fracking emits large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane and other air pollutants.

Moonbats: «Jacobson found that domes of increased carbon dioxide concentrations — discovered to form above cities more than a decade ago — cause local temperature increases that in turn increase the amounts of local air pollutants, raising concentrations of health - damaging ground - level ozone as well as particles in urban air.»

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.

In January 2016, Scenic Hudson and a coalition of partners filed a lawsuit against Global, claiming that Global failed to obtain a required air pollution permit and institute necessary pollution controls when it modified its Albany facility in 2012 to allow a five-fold increase in the amount of crude oil handled at the facility and that Global has violated its air permit by handling Bakken crude, which emits far more air pollutants than conventional crude oil.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

As we increase the amount of anthropogenic pollutants in the air, we trap heat within our atmosphere.

Stronger hoses and tighter connections in the Vanguard's air conditioning system reduce the amount of concentrated global warming pollutants, called hydrofluorocarbons, which leak into the air.

Commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollutants into the air globally as the total amount released by the world's cars, according to a new study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado at Boulder.