Sentences with phrase «cause air pollution levels»

Campaigners believe it will cause air pollution levels to soar, rendering impossible a 2015 emission target set by the European commission.

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In addition to the tolls, the supervisor and others have complained that vehicles stuck in traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residents.

The data were collected by air pollution monitoring campaigns, and included levels of nitrogen dioxide (a prominent air pollutant caused by traffic and cigarette smoking), coarse particles, and fine particles.

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.

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

At least twice in the past 12 years, cities like Los Angeles and San Diego were forced to deal with Beijing - level air pollution caused by southern California wildfires.

Provo has some of the highest air - pollution levels in the country — especially in the winter, due to an inversion effect caused by nearby mountains.

The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term.

«Although not the direct cause of allergies, a higher level of fur can cause air pollution and provoke sneezing or skin irritation.

WWF Scotland has accused the Scottish government of taking a «complacent» approach to «dangerous» levels of air pollution in Scottish cities, caused mostly by motorised traffic.

The carbon pollution we continue pumping into the atmosphere is already causing our air and oceans to warm, glaciers and ice sheets to melt, and sea levels to rise at alarming rates.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

As the climate has become warmer, weather patterns change, contributing to higher levels of air pollution like ground - level ozone that can «cause premature deaths, hospital visits, lost school days, and acute respiratory symptoms.»

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

Another study conducted in Fort Worth, Texas, concluded that «the measured and estimated air pollution levels did not reach levels that have been observed to cause adverse health effects.»

Although a different scenario to deforestation described above, our desire to concrete over natural land cover (including all important trees) causes local temperature increase that have been linked to air pollution levels and illnesses.

Air pollution at serious levels is often caused by traffic, heating for homes and businesses, industrial parks, or dangerous mold.