Sentences with phrase «bad air quality in»

Public reaction to increasingly bad air quality in developing regions [74] may lead to future aerosol reductions, at least on a regional basis.
For example, are not the olympic games being threatened by bad air quality in Bejing, China?
The students were tired of having to have recess indoors because of the bad air quality in the Salt Lake Valley.
Residents of Kanpur reacted with dismay Wednesday after the Indian city was found to have the worst air quality in a global World Health Organization survey that urged the nation to clean up its act.
But the reality is that the nation's most populous state is an industrial colossus — the world's ninth - largest economy — with the worst air quality in the nation, according to annual report cards issued by the American Lung Association.
It will serve the South Coast Air Basin region, which has the worst air quality in the nation.
«Californians already experience the worst air quality in the nation.
«Poland has the second worst air quality in all of the European Union,» said Wilczynski.
It has the worst air quality in the country, and companies regularly run afoul of exceedance limits, but in 2006 all of the oil companies were fined only $ 249,000.
It has the worst air quality in the country, and companies

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Public anger over bad air and water quality in China has been rising in recent years, resulting in mass demonstrations.
Air quality is so poor in Beijing that on bad days it's hard to see buildings across the street.
Pace only part of his problem... though a big one... his distribution of ball out if defence is awful... one of worst in EPL... slows down our forward movement massively and often puts receiving player in akward situation wher only option is back pass... He is also average in air... So his one quality is positional sense so he is alright as a bench player which is how Germany use him... So yes the guy is right we will not win league with this mertesaker starting
@Admin, I agree our defense is not poor... Mert - Kos partnership is not bad and both players I would say are top quality defenders... But both players also have obvious weaknessess, Mert, lack of pace, Kos, can be beaten by stronger players in the air... I ve seen top managers time and time again deliberately taking advantage of their weaknesses....
In cities such as Seoul and Mexico City, the air quality is so bad that some people wear facemasks to filter the air.
«Some of the city's worst air quality, if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.
«There was a recent bad air day - this is absolutely true - where the air quality in Norfolk was inferior to the air quality in London.
In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.
Unlike most tourists, who see only Disneyland, the beaches and other scenic attractions, Birnbaum was there to see the underbelly of a region that faces some of the worst air quality problems in the country.
The bad air quality has prompted the Ministry of Finance and NDRC to negotiate with the oil companies about subsidies in order to encourage high - quality fuel.
Dear EarthTalk: Is air quality in the United States improving or getting worse?
But according to the American Lung Association (ALA), even though air quality around the country is improving overall, some 175 million Americans — 58 percent of the population — still live in places where pollution levels can cause breathing difficulties or worse.
As for what you can do, ALA recommends protecting yourself and your family by checking air quality forecasts in your community and avoiding exercising or working outdoors when bad air quality is expected.
The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.
Buying an air filter probably won't make a huge difference in your air quality or in how you feel, says Young, but you may find it beneficial if you do suffer from bad allergies.
Plus, they're often coated with stain treatments and flame retardants that are sources of toxic, nonbiodegradable perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are bad for both the environment and the air quality in your home.
The researchers found that due to the confined cabin space, with the worst ventilation conditions, as well as in peak contamination, that the evidence indicates that smoking in cars produces fine particle pollution concentrations which are very rarely found in studies on air quality.
London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first of 50 air quality audits for primary schools in the worst polluted areas in the capital in a bid to protect children from toxic air.
This is a shame, because it increases the cost of PHEVs and will reduce the take - up in Europe (which will be bad for urban air quality).
A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.
In addition to bathing the dog, a good quality HEPA air filter will help remove allergens from the air, and a HEPA vacuum run daily can take care of the worst of the hair left on the floor or in the carpetIn addition to bathing the dog, a good quality HEPA air filter will help remove allergens from the air, and a HEPA vacuum run daily can take care of the worst of the hair left on the floor or in the carpetin the carpets.
We maintain our equipment to ensure it is in first class condition and with our state of the art air compressor and routine air quality checks as per PADI standards; there is no need to worry about bad air.
The second part of the exhibit showcases her series, Man Made (2013 - 15) interactive video paintings inspired during an art residency in Beijing where the World Air Quality Index on a clear day hovers around 350 (Los Angeles is 75 on a bad day).
«Nothing has been damaged, but the air quality is very bad in Westwood today, so we're taking precautions.»
One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.
We recommend checking out the American Lung Association's 2007 Air Quality Report, which lists the top 25 cities for long - term particulate pollution levels, and the Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the Air Quality Report, which lists the top 25 cities for long - term particulate pollution levels, and the Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in Quality Report, which lists the top 25 cities for long - term particulate pollution levels, and the Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in quality is good (and where it's bad) in the US.
Image: UCAR Messing With the Local Air Currents It's already pretty obvious to anyone who's ever been in a city on a smoggy day that air quality can get quite bad in urban areas, but we're still finding new reasons why that is Air Currents It's already pretty obvious to anyone who's ever been in a city on a smoggy day that air quality can get quite bad in urban areas, but we're still finding new reasons why that is air quality can get quite bad in urban areas, but we're still finding new reasons why that is so.
See also::: NAFTA Bad For Mexico's Air Quality,:: Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow,:: A Picture is Worth... Air Pollution in China
The reason there aren't more bad air quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air Aair quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air AAir Act.
The problem has grown worse over the last five years due to the high levels of pollution and poor air quality in the city, created by [continue reading...]
At its worst, Beijing air quality has approached levels only seen in the US during wildfires.
Press Trust of India: A study pointing that the pollution levels in New Delhi is worse than that of Beijing may have been quoting the data from the worst period of the year but the air quality in Indian cities is progressively getting worse, UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri said today.
Not to mention: air quality along squattered streets in urban Kolkata is worse.
The sustained burning of biomass not only releases the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane but also large quantities of carbon monoxide and particulate matter... during major fire years the air quality in Indonesia is many times worse than that in the worlds» most polluted cities.
With China dealing with civil unrest and bad international headlines over air quality issues, the country recently penned a joint greenhouse gas reduction agreement with the United States and also announced in September that it would soon ban the import of coal with high sulfur and ash content.
The nation's fleet of 99 reactors produces no air emissions, which is important especially in places where downwind air quality is already bad.
In the second study, for the next 20 years, even if, worst - case, we still use lots of coal, nationwide air quality for other emissions will also improve.
In January, Beijing made headlines when its air quality got so bad that it went beyond the very top of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Indair quality got so bad that it went beyond the very top of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Qualityquality got so bad that it went beyond the very top of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality IndAir QualityQuality Index.
It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.
According to the company (based on information from the World Health Organization and the EPA), it might be better for people to track the air quality around them instead of focusing on their fitness trackers, as some 92 % of the world's population lives in places where the air pollution exceeds the levels considered to be «healthy», and even indoor air quality can be worse than outside air quality.
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