Sentences with phrase «cleaning air»

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

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There are only a couple of ways to help this issue, cleaning the home, cleaning the air, and bringing more fresh air into the home.

However, they are not all that efficient when to comes to cleaning the air.

In England they found that «cleaning the air to the level of cleanliness enjoyed by the area with the best air [in the UK] would mean a 40 percent drop in the bronchitis death rate among males.»

In Buffalo, New York, they found that cleaning the air to the level of the cleanest area would lower the average bronchitis death rate by 50 percent.

The Trump Administration has directed various agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Commerce Department, and Transportation Department to find ways to use the Clean Air Act and other laws to require vehicles made overseas undergo strict emissions testing and other reviews, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Using the suction apparatuses he saw in a sawmill as inspiration, he built his own vacuum that incorporated a cone - like cyclone system that could separate dirt particles from clean air.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trader Joe's also agreed to enter a consent decree and pay a $ 500,000 civil fine to resolve claims it violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

That state's powerful regulator, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), given extraordinary powers under the federal Clean Air Act, led the U.S. to adopt stringent NOx restrictions.

Leaders on the West Coast are united in understanding science in the commitment to clean waters and clean air.»

«Consumers will receive a tangible benefit because the carmakers were overstating their gas mileage and cheating not only the general public but also car buyers,» said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.

The former general manager of the company's engineering and environmental office in Auburn Hills, Michigan was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy and violating the Clean Air Act.

We don't know whether these people are breathing clean air or drinking clean water because the environmental data is full of holes.

Last year Clean Air Gardening made $ 300,000; Hundley turned a profit of $ 100,000.

The first wave, in the 1970s, began with regulatory compliance, following the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

I don't know all his environmental positions, but I bet we share similar goals of clean air, land, and water.

«It's just not possible to clean up London's air without cleaning up London's roads, and that's why we support the mayor's first steps to tackle air pollution by introducing the T - charge,» Rosie Rodgers, clean air campaigner at Greenpeace, said.

«It shows the Trump administration doesn't hold the same American values for clean air, clean water and healthy land as the vast majority of its citizens,» McCarthy said in a statement.

This approach recognizes that Americans have an equal right to clean air and water, no matter where they live, and allows states to compete for business without having to sacrifice public health or environmental quality.

Another organization may opt to work with an animal - loving actress to celebrate its clean air initiative, educating the public on how air pollution in certain regions has been detrimental to animal species.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

It's a tactic that dates back to the 1970s when the Clean Air Act authorized the EPA to regulate vehicle tailpipe emissions.

Several high - and middle - income countries, including the U.S., have put in place legislation and regulation for cleaner air and water.

At our current rate of manufacturing and consumption, we risk bringing future generations into a world without clean air or water.

One of the latest in this array of pollution problem solvers is a tower that takes in smog and releases clean air.

The states argue that the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously, failed to follow its own regulations, and violated the Clean Air Act.

Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

He aims to install 800 of his towers in public parks across China, not only to create pockets of cleaner air, but to bring more awareness to what is admittedly a huge problem that a giant air purifier — or even 800 of them — can't begin to solve.

«They want — they need — cleaner air, and we see that shift longer term,» he said.

Clean air?

We will be the next step and one of the first of many in the world's fight for clean air to breathe..

The Obama administration has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the power industry through the Clean Power Plan.

At times, Pruitt directly coordinated with the Oklahoma oil and gas industry to put pressure on the Obama White House in an effort to weaken clean air and water regulations or squash investigations.

Our goal is to be a centrifuge in the fight for cleaner air for a vast majority of the general public through many avenues from industry and recreation to travel, medical and everyday life.

It turns out it can clean the air outside the car too.

Tesla puts the Bioweapon Defense Mode to the test, demonstrating just how much it can clean the air inside the vehicle.

Other factors in this revolution include the urgent imperative to make cities more livable, with lower congestion and cleaner air, the enormous potential for autonomous cars and trucks, innovative approaches to subway systems and buses, and rising consumer interest in car sharing and bike sharing.

What's more, it looks increasingly likely that the EPA will attempt to revoke the Clean Air Act waiver that allows California to set its own air quality standards (and thus its own fuel economy standards).

Customers already love the 787 since it features customizable lighting, large electronically dimmable windows, and cleaner air, and because it's a quieter and smoother ride thanks to all of the technology onboard.

The Obama administration, in the face of what it deemed to be unsatisfactory congressional action on climate change, was muscular in its use of Clean Air Act rulemaking.

«This is citrus and coffee - growing country,» she says, «so we have wonderful oranges, mandarinas, grapefruit... It's very, very safe, with healthy clean air, clean water, clean everything... There's not a lot of garbage and you have space... if you have dogs and cats, this is the perfect place.»

So it's not just about trading clean air in Pittsburgh for foul air in Beijing.

To help run EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance — responsible for enforcement of environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act — Pruitt chose Patrick Traylor, a longtime lawyer who has worked helping such clients as «Koch Industries, Dominion Energy and TransCanada, responsible for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline» avoid and rebuff environmental enforcement lawsuits.

With good, fresh food, more exercise, and clean air, expats say they live a healthier lifestyle overseas and it's easy to do so.

Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S., commit wire fraud and violate the Clean Air Act for the s...