«Mobile sources, primarily motor vehicles, are the largest
cause of air pollutants in Vermont, making up 46 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions,» said Abby Bleything, Vermont Clean Cities Coordinator.
Transport is a significant
cause of air pollutant emissions, accounting for 60 percent of all air pollutant emissions.
Not exact matches
More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions
of key climate change -
causing pollutants found in
air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.
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.
Meanwhile, in Texas, oil refineries and chemical plants have dumped a year's worth
of cancer -
causing pollutants into the
air following Hurricane Harvey.
There are a vast range
of air pollutants, which
cause a variety
of effects on the environment and health.
«Understanding how these
pollutants interact with the environment, including snow, is crucial if we are to reduce the hundreds
of thousands
of premature deaths
caused by mild
air pollution in North America.
Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary
cause of surface ozone, which is one
of six main
pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean
Air Act.
«Despite some reductions in
air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a
cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts
of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?
The region's levels
of ozone and particulate matter, two
pollutants caused by both automobiles and industry, exceed national
air quality standards.
We know that trees remove the
air pollutants which can bring on asthma attacks, but in some situations they can also
cause localised build - ups
of particulates by preventing their dispersion by wind.
Tobacco smoke is a key
cause of the development and progression
of COPD in the U.S. Exposure to
air pollutants in the home and workplace, genetic factors, and respiratory infections also factor in.
Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that
of the 3.45 million premature deaths
caused by fine - particulate - matter
air pollution, about 12 percent were related to
pollutants emitted in a different region
of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.
Kaplan's team also found that in Montreal and Edmonton, emergency room visits for abdominal pain without a known
cause were slightly higher among 15 - to 24 - year olds on days when levels
of certain
air pollutants were elevated.
Singapore can then impose fines
of up to S$ 100,000 ($ 80,000) per day
of smoke, up to a maximum
of S$ 2 million, on companies or individuals that are found to
cause Singapore's
air pollutant standards index to rise to the «unhealthy» level.
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.
«Oxidative stress
caused by exposure to
air pollutants may therefore play a role in the development
of insulin resistance.
Wildfires are a source
of an especially problematic type
of air pollutant known as PM2.5 («particulate matter» less than 2.5 microns in diameter), which can become lodged in lungs and
cause or exacerbate a wide array
of health problems such as asthma and heart disease.
It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to
air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root
causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport
of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect
air quality and limit climate change.
Air pollution is broadly defined as the presence in the air of any pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosyste
Air pollution is broadly defined as the presence in the
air of any pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosyste
air of any
pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with,
causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosystems.
The degree
of air pollution in China exceeded that in most
of the world, yet assessments
of total health effects must also include other fossil fuel
caused air and water
pollutants, as discussed in the following section on ecology and the environment.
Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble
of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from
air pollution
caused by the impact
of climate change on
pollutant concentrations.
However, since we are cleaning them out
of the
air at a faster rate than other chemicals, it could be
causing a reaction that actually produces another class
of pollutants, hydroperoxides.
The stagnant
air caused by heat and humidity tends to trap airborne
pollutants, such as car exhaust, which react in the presence
of sunlight to form ozone, a main ingredient in smog.
Traffic - related pollution and sunlight can combine to promote the production
of ozone — a powerful asthma trigger — and the stagnant, humid
air of heat waves traps particulate matter and other
pollutants,
causing them to hang in the
air and become more concentrated.
Air pollutants can
cause an inflammatory response in the airways, which is a primary feature
of asthma.
-- Pollution and smoking Atmospheric
air pollutants and chemical constituents
of tobacco can activate inflammatory responses and
cause oxidative stress, among other disturbances, which could accelerate ageing and increase the risk for various diseases.
Exposure to poor indoor
air quality can have immediate effects on health, with even a first - time exposure to some toxins and
pollutants causing headaches, dizziness and irritation
of the ears, nose and throat.
A reaction
caused by the activity
of electrons in the particles energized by the sun increases the nanoparticles» magnetic field strength by up to 100 times, enough to break up
pollutant particles in the
air.
Second, most
air pollutants cause lung cancer, which has a plethora
of other potential
causes.
The standards we recommend in this report would also significantly reduce emissions
of other
air pollutants, specifically smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic
pollutants like benzene that
cause cancer and are associated with a host
of other health problems.
This is a pretty intuitive result, but it's a very good think to have solid studies
of this kind to help convince politicians and the general public that reducing
air pollution can have all kinds
of benefits, including some that they might never have thought about (not many parents will realize that their kid's illness might have been
caused, or made worse, by
air pollutants).
If Peabody is responsible for 23 percent
of U.S. coal and if each ton
of Peabody coal
causes the average damage from coal in the U.S., the burning
of Peabody coal is
causing $ 12 billion
of damage from traditional health related
air pollutants and almost $ 16 billion
of damage including greenhouse gases every year.
There'd be less
air pollution; motor vehicles are one
of the biggest
causes of smog and toxic
pollutants in the
air we breath.
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.
According to estimates, these
air pollutants cause one death per 10 gigawatt hours
of carbon dioxide.
So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile
of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer -
causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.
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
Notorious for... Under the group's influence, the US administration announced last August that it would «redefine» carbon dioxide, the main
cause of global warming, so that it would no longer be considered a
pollutant and would therefore not be subject to regulation under the Clean
Air Act.
Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the
air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing
air that's full
of pollutants that can
cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.
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.»
Household adoption
of these clean cookstoves reduces exposure to hazardous indoor
air pollutants, a primary
cause of respiratory disease, improving the health
of the cooks, typically women and children.
The major milestone achieved at COP21 for greenhouse - gases is still far short
of what is required to tackle other
air pollutants that
cause millions
of premature deaths and cost the global economy trillions
of dollars each year.
In 2002, twelve Minnesota ethanol plants were fined by US Department
of Justice for violation
of Clean
Air Act and each agreed to spend more than $ 2 million for installation of control devices to reduce air pollutants, which were caused primarily by the manufacturing of Dry Distiller Grain animal fe
Air Act and each agreed to spend more than $ 2 million for installation
of control devices to reduce
air pollutants, which were caused primarily by the manufacturing of Dry Distiller Grain animal fe
air pollutants, which were
caused primarily by the manufacturing
of Dry Distiller Grain animal feed.
Rather, Vitter and his staff appear to disagree with the shared policy goals
of these nonprofits, which include combating global warming as well as reducing cancer -
causing pollutants from the
air and water.»
Some methods
of producing hydrogen can
cause air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions
of all other climate - altering
pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden
caused by
air pollution and climate change.
These
pollutants get into the
air and
cause a lot
of problems, including thousands
of premature deaths every year.
Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction
of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because
of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as
caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations
of warming
air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.
Section 115 authorizes EPA to require states to limit emissions
of «any
air pollutant» that may «
cause or contribute to
air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare in a foreign country.»