Sentences with phrase «cause of acid rain»

A unique reusable organic liquid developed at PNNL can remove and store harmful gases from power plant emissions, including sulfur dioxide, a primary cause of acid rain.

If released into the atmosphere it eventually changes to sulphuric acid, the main cause of acid rain.

They are a cause of acid rain.

Sulfur dioxide (SOx) is the main cause of acid rain, which damages forests, lakes and buildings.

The negotiators are meeting to draft a UN agreement for further reductions in emissions of sulphur dioxide, a prime cause of acid rain, which is scheduled for signing before the end of November.

Government scientists from throughout Europe will meet in Geneva under the UN banner to thrash out a successor to the 1984 agreement, which is known as the ’30 per cent club» because it required nations to cut their emissions of sulphur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, by 30 per cent.

The main cause of acid rain is sulfur dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

But she has also been criticized on her environmental record, including her vote to reject Environmental Protection Agency carbon limits for coal - fueled power plants, a chief cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

Pollution drifting over from midwest power plants is the leading cause of acid rain in the Adirondack Park.

Not exact matches

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

We have, for example, already taken some measures to deal with one of the probable causes of the growing holes in the ozone layer, and to reverse the destruction of European forests by acid rain.

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

There, temperatures climbed as high as 42 °C, and an acid rain — caused by sulfur dioxide fumes from the volcano — occasionally lashed the upper reaches of the mountain.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

Using direct measurements and computer models, oceanographer Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and his colleagues calculated that acid rain causes as much as 50 percent of the acidification of coastal waters, where the pH can be as low as 7.6.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

An extensive body of prior research has revealed students have many misconceptions about climate change, confusing it, for example, with causing acid rain and ozone depletion, as well as linking it to skin cancer, the authors note.

Norilsk factories also emit 2 million tons of acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide per year, roughly 1 percent of all that is emitted worldwide.

That legislation, which Klein calls «the granddaddy of all emissions trading markets,» created a cap - and - trade system for utilities to reduce the sulfur - based pollutants that cause acid rain.

Discharge of lava from the eruption at Bárðarbunga volcano released a huge mass — up to 120,000 tonnes per day — of sulphur dioxide gas, which can cause acid rain and respiratory problems.

The Polk plant captures all its fly ash, 98 percent of its sulfur — which causes acid rain — and nearly all its nitrogen oxides, the main component of the brown haze that hangs over many cities.

The aim will be to target new cuts in emissions of the gases that cause acid rain, to give maximum benefit to the environment.

Streams of dying fish running through forests of dead trees are just the beginning: Acid rain also causes the corrosion of building materials like limestone and marble.

Sulfur dioxide is a major component of particulate pollution, can cause heart and lung problems, and forms acid rain.

The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.

Forests are also being destroyed by acid rain resulting from our pollution - causing activities and through the introduction of disease and invasive species.

Two, there seems to be a reproducible methanogenesis poisoning effect by sulfuric acid deposition (acid rain), caused by the stimulation of sulfate - reducing bacteria displacing the methanogens.

Could you translate this into English: «there seems to be a reproducible methanogenesis poisoning effect by sulfuric acid deposition (acid rain), caused by the stimulation of sulfate - reducing bacteria displacing the methanogens.»

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

EVEN NATURE»S Warnings inflicted on the world in the form of ACID RAIN and OZONE Depletion -LRB-(proven to be caused by Human / Industry dumping of Chemicals into the atmosphere)-RRB- have been ignored or ridiculed by the USUAL SUSPECTS.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY of the MANY environmental threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

According to this chart PEF, and even RDF and unprocessed MSW, generate significantly less Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) the cause of «Acid Rain» than when using Coal.

Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report that analyzes the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

Heartland has also denied pollution's role in causing acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer, and taken strong stances against the Endangered Species Act and president Obama's healthcare reform.

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.

Exposure to high levels of nitrogen dioxide can cause breathing problems and reduced lung function, and it is a component of acid rain.

Many aerosols are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and wood, and cause lung damage, also adding to acid rain and smog.

New maximum levels for nitrogen oxides, a component of smog, and sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, are scheduled to take effect in 2012.

Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or DDT; the role of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change.

Coal - fired power plants are the largest unregulated source of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the U.S.. They're also the major source of sulfur dioxide emissions in the U.S. which causes acid rain, haze in National Parks and Wilderness areas, and fine particulate matter which contributes to lung cancer, heart attacks, and even premature death.

[10] Although new power plants, when equipped with state - of - the - art pollution controls, have significantly less of the type of pollutants that cause acid rain, fine particulate pollution, and mercury toxicity, no currently proposed plants include any equipment to capture emissions of carbon dioxide.

The approach has successfully reduced the emissions of acid rain causing pollutants through a program established in the 1990 Clean Air Act.

He was directed to prove US coal burning plants were causing the Acid Rain causing demise of the Quebec Maple Syrup industry.

«The switch to heavier fossil fuels has already caused much popular concern,» Warner wrote in an article published by the United Nation Environment Program, «primarily seen in some nations» fear of the effects of acid rain, and the general fear that excessive use of these fuels may so build up CO2 in the atmosphere that the Earth's temperature may increase, with some disastrous consequences.

Other air pollutants, which contribute to acid rain and can cause respiratory problems - sulphur dioxide (SO2), ammonia (NH3), particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)- were found to cause $ 38 - 105 billion of damage a year.