Sentences with phrase «diesel truck traffic»

Many factors — including diesel truck traffic, oil production and geographical setting — contribute to the problem in a basin that deters air circulation and traps pollutants.

«We have reason to believe [my family members] have suffered from cancer and other life threatening illnesses as a result of their exposure,» he said, citing the «bomb» train and diesel truck traffic in the South End as an ongoing example in which communities feel overlooked for an economic benefit.

Volunteers including people from AVillage Inc pitched in for a diesel truck traffic count, finding nearly a thousand big rigs a day pass through the neighborhood.

Federal Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck and New York State DEC Commissoner Basil Seggos joined other government officials in a candid two - hour session with Ezra Prentice residents, who have long suspected oil trains and diesel truck traffic could be responsible for their health issues.

Not exact matches

«Overall, the Semi is more responsive, covers more miles than a diesel truck in the same amount of time, and more safely integrates with passenger car traffic,» says Tesla in its official announcement.

Those studies — the most recent in 2006 — found a link between bridge traffic, particularly diesel truck fumes, and high rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in neighborhood residents.

The heavy traffic of diesel trailer trucks, which has been an ongoing issue in the South End, was originally addressed in the microgrid project literature as a reduction: «Noise associated with the obsolete emergency diesel generators will no longer exist and tractor - trailer trucks delivering fuel will be reduced,» the project's FAQ site reads.

Just beyond the playground fence, a line of diesel trucks was idling, stuck in traffic as they made their way from a massive port complex to a congested freeway.

If moving from the country or quiet suburbs to a more urban location, pups and dogs should be gradually introduced such things as crowded sidewalks, noisy traffic and big diesel trucks.

Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.