Sentences with phrase «conventional air pollutants»

The states of California and São Paulo — two of the largest states in the world — have been leaders in energy policies that reduce conventional air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and energy costs, thereby saving tens of billions of dollars.

Fossil fuels — especially coal in electricity generation and gasoline for transportation — are the biggest source of conventional air pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxides (NOx), and carbon monoxide (CO).

Solar is also reducing conventional air pollutants from power plants — sulfur, nitrogen, and particulates — and the corresponding health benefits are greatest in the eastern United States.

It finds that linking separate systems can provide benefits, including more cost - effective reductions, but policymakers also must be aware of negative effects, including the prospect that some areas may see disproportionately little reduction in conventional air pollutants.

«The increased use of clean energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gases or conventional air pollutants... would be doubly beneficial to global food security, as they do not contribute to either climate change or increased surface - ozone concentrations,» she said.

Not exact matches

Conventional cleansers contain toxic materials that release air pollutants through evaporation and pollute water when residual matter is rinsed down the drain.

But the incidental benefits of greenhouse - gas reductions can include a reduction in conventional pollutants, which do tend to enter the ground - level air close to industrial plants.

They might even argue that the new air quality standards (even excluding the CO2 standard) are a backdoor step toward carbon regulation taking advantage of coal's higher conventional pollutant emissions married to its carbon emissions.

In January 2016, Scenic Hudson and a coalition of partners filed a lawsuit against Global, claiming that Global failed to obtain a required air pollution permit and institute necessary pollution controls when it modified its Albany facility in 2012 to allow a five-fold increase in the amount of crude oil handled at the facility and that Global has violated its air permit by handling Bakken crude, which emits far more air pollutants than conventional crude oil.

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum - based marine fuels (low - sulfur and high - sulfur).

Producing electricity from solar cells reduces air pollutants and greenhouse gases by about 90 percent in comparison to using conventional fossil fuel technologies, claims a study called «Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles», to be published this month in «Environmental Science & Technology».