Sentences with phrase «associated air pollution emissions»

Wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems generate electricity with no associated air pollution emissions.

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If the process could be applied to other common industrial metals such as copper, it would have the potential to significantly lower prices as well as reduce the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with traditional production.

The researchers estimated the benefits of tree cover in reducing air pollution, stormwater runoff, energy costs associated with heating and cooling buildings, and carbon emissions.

Also, a study of hospital admissions in Wisconsin found that high air pollution emissions were associated with a 40 percent increase in the rate of bowel disease hospitalizations in 2002.

The researchers estimated the benefits of tree cover for reducing air pollution, stormwater runoff, energy costs associated with heating and cooling buildings, and carbon emissions.

Furthermore, cane field burning — which is done pre-harvest to dispose of leaves and other unwanted parts of the plant — has been associated with significant increases in local air pollution and the emission of carbon monoxide and ozone.

For example, in 2010 it was predicted that cleaner air from an emissions reduction target of 30 per cent by 2020 in the European Union would deliver savings worth 80 billion euros a year due to reductions in the incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases (associated with air pollution from burning fossil fuels).»