Sentences with phrase «causing smog»

One redeeming article was about the Richmond, Virginia plant that put in extensive pollution controls and cleared the air that had been causing a smog over Richmond.

Congested freeways crawling with cars and trucks are notorious for causing smog in Los Angeles, but a new study finds that heavy airplane traffic can contribute even more pollution, and the effect continues for up to 10 miles away from the airport.

The bad news: the hot weather is causing a smog alert for the five boroughs, Long Island and parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.

That said, it is true that older diesel cars do pollute more than gasoline cars, because they don't have DPFs, and diesel cars in general emit far more nitrogen oxides, which cause smog and acid rain, the study also noted.

NO2 is the pollutant that causes smog and contributes to over 7 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization.

The Hill reports, «Republican lawmakers are planning an all - out assault on Obama's environmental agenda, including rules on mercury and other air toxics from power plants, limits on ground - level ozone that causes smog, mountaintop mining restrictions and the EPA's attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over streams and ponds.»

But burnt carbon in local places can cause smog and in very large amounts can change the global climate.

That's what we did in the first major wave of environmental legislation in the early 1970s: cars were required to meet emission standards for the chemicals that cause smog, factories were required to limit the volume of effluent they dumped into waterways and so on.

Not exact matches

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

Investigate a cap - and - trade system that will allow firms to generate credits by reducing smog - causing pollutants.

In this collective smog the abortion issue acts as a kind of volatile precipitant, causing all the various elements of angst in church, state and society to condense and focus themselves with a terrible intensity.

The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.

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.

In September 2015 it emerged that Volkswagen had fitted software to around 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide which caused them to release fewer smog - causing pollutants during tests than in real - world driving conditions.

LA's smog is caused by sunlight driving chemical reactions between oxygen, nitrogen compounds and hydrocarbons in the lower atmosphere.

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.

Despite the smogs in Los Angeles, 77 per cent of people agreed that «Cars are not really an important cause of air pollution».

Smog - causing nitrogen oxides from the Los Angeles port's ships declined 30 percent between 2005 and 2011, while particulate matter decreased about 70 percent.

By factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smog.

Smog can cause coughing and shortness of breath, and can aggravate asthma or trigger asthma attacks.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

Breathing in smog, while inevitable in certain urban and industrial areas, can irritate the cardiovascular system and cause other health problems.

Increased incidence of cardio - respiratory diseases caused by higher concentrations of ground - level ozone (smog) is projected.

Modeling studies caution that warmer days will lead to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone and smog, which cause sickness and death from respiratory and cardiac disease (79).

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.

Dynamically reverse chemical damage caused from synthetic hair products and environmental factors, such as sun, smog and wind damage.

Too much booze, drugs (illegal and legal — xanax has to be processed by your liver too), pesticides in foods, chemicals and environmental pollution (your liver doesn't like smog), and too little nutrients can cause your lovely liver to get really bogged down.

Too much booze, drugs (illegal and legal — xanax has to pass through your liver too), pesticides in foods, chemicals and environmental pollution (your liver doesn't like smog) can cause your lovely liver to get really bogged down.

There are plenty of environmental causes that take the blame, from overexposure to the sun to toxins in the air, like smog and cigarette smoke.

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Now, scientists say it could cause volcanic smog, acid rain and ballistic projectiles.

The British firm Emissions Analytics found smog - causing nitrogen - oxide emissions were four times higher than allowed.

Unfortunately without more information as to why your Toyota Corolla did not pass the emissions test, it is difficult to determine the cause for the failed smog check.

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Smog is a serious challenge for people with respiratory problems and can cause damage to crops, vegetation and forests.

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.

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, wants to make the city more «pedestrianized» and more bike - friendly, and has been fighting the smog caused by diesel vehicles, aiming to ban them by 2020.

They are a cause of smog.

To add insult to injury, it now appears that smog — in addition to causing lung infections, asthma, heart attacks and cancers — can diminish your sense of smell.

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.

The human suffering caused by the fires is heavy, as toxic clouds of smog envelope Indonesia, as well as its neighboring nations in Southeast Asia.

While complaints about air quality in the Los Angeles Basin date back centuries, research established more than 50 years ago that vehicle emissions were the primary cause of photochemical smog.

I'm not against being nice to the world — I just think we should focus on enviromental causes that we can address; river pollution, smog, disease, clean water, decent crop strains and so on.

There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.

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.

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.

«Carbon pollution... causes more severe heat waves and smog pollution, which trigger more asthma attacks and other serious respiratory illnesses.

The benefits of the Clean Air Act have typically far outweighed the costs: According to EPA estimates, a proposal to rein in smog - causing sulfur - dioxide and nitrogenoxide would cost polluters $ 2.8 billion per year by 2014, while providing as much as $ 290 billion in health benefits to the broader public (including 21,000 fewer cases of bronchitis, 23,000 fewer heart attacks, and up to 36,000 lives saved).

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

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