Sentences with phrase «dioxide as a pollutant»

Last, the participants took a standard measure of policy support for climate change, answering questions such as, «How much do you favor reducing carbon dioxide as a pollutant?»

My colleague Felicity Barringer has a story filling in a detail on the White House's refusal to accept the need for restricting carbon dioxide as a pollutant, even as President Bush and the administration have accepted, with ever more firmness, that rising concentrations of the gas are a serious problem and must be reversed (somehow, someday).

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science.

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science so eagerly practised by academia across the world in order to keep their funding sources open to the governmental decrees, which are in turn based on totally false IPCC dogma (yes, dogma — not science).

This process has already begun with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant enabling it the enforce efficiency standards on the dirtiest coal power stations.

12/19/17 — Among registered Republicans nationwide, only about half say that climate change is happening and fewer than a third say humans are responsible, yet a majority in every congressional district say they support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, according to a new study.

For instance, the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case — which enabled the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act — began as a public petition filed in 1999.

When EPA announced it was planning to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, we filed briefs and an 880 - page report, Climate Change Reconsidered, proving the science was illegally unsound by being based only on the UN's IPCC reports, which we have effectively rebutted.

October 6, 1999 Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels testified (PDF) before the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, arguing against the classification of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

The industry had a willing booster in George W. Bush, who quickly broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and appointed coal lobbyists to top positions in his administration, granting the industry a long and now familiar wish list of favors, including gutting the Clean Air Act and easing standards for mountaintop mining.

Source: Transcript, Patrick Michaels» testimony before House Small Business Committee 7/29/98 6 October, 1999 Testified before House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory affairs, arguing against the classification of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

Still, most greens were heartened after the White House announced plans to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Eighty - five percent of Democrats and 57 percent of Republicans favor regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

If Congress does that, it takes us all the way back to before the Supreme Court justified EPA being able to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

In his speech, Michaels spoke about the need to vacate the Endangerment Finding, a piece of legislation which classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant and allowed the EPA to regulate it under the clean air act.

• Won a key 2007 victory on greenhouse gas vehicle emissions when the nation's highest court sided with our coalition and struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant (81 % support), including 91 % of Democrats, 80 % of Independents, and 69 % of Republicans (+8 points since Fall 2017).

Not exact matches

Much of this fine particle pollution comes from electric power plants, either directly or as pollutants such as sulfur dioxide that chemically evolve downwind of the plant.

It has also reduced 90 percent of harmful pollutants such as mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone and particulate matter.

The 50 MW is enough to power 6,500 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 45,300 tons per year as well as reducing other environmental pollutants.

That filing, which has been called the most important environmental lawsuit ever to go to the Supreme Court, demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act — something the plaintiffs saw as a very reasonable request since the Clean Air Act defines a pollutant as a substance that is damaging to humans.

Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health & Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and study co-author, said: «This paper shows how heat related deaths will escalate in the absence of decisive action to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and short - lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon.

«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.

China has a plan designed to reduce pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, linked to climate change and breathing problems, by as much as 10 percent over the next five years.

In its first case confronting global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are air pollutants that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate.

By oxidation or reduction, i.e. the donation or acceptance of electrons, the catalysts convert combustion pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, into carbon dioxide, water, and nitrogen.

The São Paulo State Environmental Corporation (CETESB), for example, routinely monitors only solid particles with diameters of 10,000 nm (PM10) and 2,500 nm (PM2.5)-- as well as other gaseous pollutants such as ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

In 2010, Duke University researcher Robert Jackson found that, in theory, carbon dioxide leaking from underground storage sites — including in central Illinois — could contaminate drinking - water aquifers with pollutants such as uranium under the wrong conditions.

But in a world which does not place a cost on environmental degradation, but sees the environment as a free resource, it is not surprising that a market - led energy policy lets industry dump sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and other pollutants indiscriminately into the atmosphere unless prevented by legal regulation.

5) Cremating a human body releases 15 kilograms of carbon dioxide (along with other pollutants, such as mercury from dental fillings), while traditional burial uses up scarce land.

Short - lived climate pollutants (also known as Short Lived Climate Forcers or SLCF) caused by human activities include methane and sulphur dioxide, and to a lesser extent fluorocarbons.

But in recent years chemists have been increasingly concerned that the atmosphere's reservoir of the hydroxyl radical, and hence the efficiency of its «cleansing service», has been overstretched by the build - up of pollutants such as methane, carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide.

But the Clean Air Act, which the Obama administration used as the legal mechanism for the plan, mandates that the federal government regulate carbon dioxide emissions because the EPA has already declared it to be a pollutant, said David Goldston, government affairs director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The study finds that titanium dioxide coatings, seen as promising for their role in breaking down airborne pollutants on contact, are likely in real - world conditions to convert abundant ammonia to nitrogen oxide, the key precursor of harmful ozone pollution.

For example, titanium dioxide is a catalyst that degrades pollutants, and aluminum oxides and iron oxides are coagulants used as the first step in purifying drinking water.

This information was analyzed along with measurements of two air pollutants in their homes — fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)-- as well as outdoor temperatures during the study period.

The good news, she said, is that real progress has been made in combating genuine pollutants such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and other pollutants identified in the Clean Air Act.

The specialized instruments onboard the aircraft sampled the plume for aerosol particle size distribution and composition as well as concentrations of pollutant gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Carbon dioxide is certainly unlike any other substance EPA has previously regulated as an «air pollutant.»

This language would have been superfluous and without legal effect if, as Waxman assumes, EPA already had authority since 1970 to regulate carbon dioxide as an «air pollutant» or greenhouse gases in general based on their» global warming potential.»

Most commonly the preservative is added either as a sulphur salt such as potassium metabisulphate (which releases sulphur dioxide gas) or sulphur dioxide gas itself, which is well known as an undesirable pollutant.

* Vitamin E and selenium (200 to 300 mcg) work together to protect cells from pollutants including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, nitrites and metals such as lead, mercury, silver and cadmium.

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

As a zero - emission vehicle that emits no carbon dioxide or other pollutants Mazda intends to lease approximately 100 units in total, mainly to local governments and corporate customers in the Chugoku region of Western Japan (where Mazda's headquarters are located).

With the activated carbon layer embedded in the media, this filter easily bonds pollutant gases such as sulfur dioxide, ozone and fuel vapors in the pores of the activated carbon,...

[INSERT, 4/18: Then there's the continuing debate over whether dealing with carbon dioxide as a traditional pollutant (regulate and it will go away) is the way to make this particular emission go away.

She asked him to explain his dissent in the 2007 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

We are told as Americans, that CO2 is a pollutant and that we release upwards of 20 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year into the atmosphere.

In a move widely interpreted as his effort to «out green» Gore, Bush pledged to include carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities, in a basket of restricted power plant pollutants.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has bluntly rejected challenges to the Obama Administration's rules restricting carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.