Sentences with phrase «control environmental pollutants»

My expertise lies in utilizing a variety of instruments and technology to measure, monitor, and control environmental pollutants.

Not exact matches

Al Carlacci, the regional air pollutant control engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said he doesn't need a meter or an air quality monitor to tell him that there's some dirty air in the West Side near the Peace Bridge, where studies have shown high levels of asthma.

She said that the smog that has overtaken many parts of the country in recent months has given China's Ministry of Environmental Protection a foot in the door in regulating coal - fired power plants and will allow it to develop a framework to control greenhouse gases and pollutants together.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

Much of the existing generating capacity is very old, and, due to high air pollutant emissions and tightening environmental standards, about 30 % will need to be retrofitted with environmental control technology or be replaced in the next decade.

As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.

In a case before the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board, the Sierra Club cited a rule that required plants to use the best available technology to control all «regulated» pollutants, as well as the April 2007 Supreme Court ruling.

Environmental controls on these other pollutants like SO2, NOx, and mercury often (though not always) result in greenhouse gas emission reductions.