Sentences with phrase «emissions than air»

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Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

While there is a built - in ionizer that can't be shut off, it does comply with California Air Resources Board standards that limit emissions to fewer than 50 parts per billion.

Low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) emissions for indoor air quality (less than 0.5 parts per million)

If the UK government complied with EU air quality and emissions rules, then we would all be breathing much cleaner air than at present.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

The Health Effects Institute states that the neighborhoods by the Peace Bridge are not an air quality hot spot because emissions levels are similar or even better than in other urban areas.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.

We reported Monday that the risk to public health from air pollution released from chemical and industrial plants, most of them in or around Niagara Falls, is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where emissions are reported to the federal government.

Incorporating a pricing mechanism into our climate policy would likely be more efficient at driving down greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost than the current policy of regulating such emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Peak - time emissions from diesel trains at London's Paddington Station exceed the European recommendations for outdoor air quality, and are higher than nearby roadsides on the majority of days.

Lighter and denser than wood, charcoal burns longer and produces fewer toxic emissions, reducing indoor air pollution by up to 90 percent.

Though the air may be cleaner today than half a decade ago, exhaust from vehicles and industrial emissions still pose public health risks that might even extend beyond the lungs, as Laura Beil reports.

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

However, the Clean Air Act is not the ideal vehicle for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Parenteau said, suggesting that pricing carbon would yield better and faster results than setting compliance targets for individual states.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

Reductions in national carbon emissions could prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year by cleaning up the air across the nation, finds a new study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

Placing carbon capture at these industrial facilities is significantly cheaper than general air capture and reduces emissions from the single largest sources of CO2.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

«When it's more important than ever to cut energy costs and reduce pollution in our communities, organizations across America are making their buildings more efficient, raising the bar in energy efficiency and lowering the amount of carbon pollution and other emissions in the air we breathe,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a statement.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

Thus, wood burning for residential heating, and the resulted particle emission, may have a much larger impact on air quality in Norwegian urban areas than previously thought.

This is more than the capturing of 41 percent of sulfur dioxide and 90 percent of mercury emissions called for by the new mercury and air toxic standards (MATS) issued by the EPA in December 2011.

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.

Ahhhh, it's like a breath of fresh air Ford's low - emission 2005 Focus is among a growing class of gas - powered vehicles that are actually greener than electrics.

According to a book Vehicular Air Pollution I found from Google Books, ethanol fuel actually has some emissions worse than gasoline: ethanol emits more aldehydes.

Hence, if the engine «believes» the coolant to be a different temperature than it is, it will put in more or less fuel than required, resulting in a faulty air / fuel ratio and potentially more CO emissions.

In response to a $ 24 million funding opportunity for zero emission buses and trucks in January, the Air Resources Board received more than $ 250 million in proposals.

Optimized aerodynamics have a direct impact on the car's fuel economy and emission management; a reduction of air drag by 10 % offers a reduction of fuel consumption on the road of more than 2.5 %, according to BMW.

The EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) determined that these diesel cars emit up to 40 times more pollution than emission standards allow.

New features on the zero emissions Naimo include a large heads - up digital touch - screen display, and air jets rather than windshield wipers.

We have worked with Congress to make available more than $ 40 billion in loan guarantees to support investments that will avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions or air pollutants.

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

A series of 37 «eco-billboards» touting the fact that the Mirai's «only emission is water» (at least at the proverbial tailpipe, as there are definitely emissions other than water associated with hydrogen fuel cells and any new car) will be installed with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, and these billboards are said to remove nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the air.

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

Temperature tends to respond so that, depending on optical properties, LW emission will tend to reduce the vertical differential heating by cooling warmer parts more than cooler parts (for the surface and atmosphere); also (not significant within the atmosphere and ocean in general, but significant at the interface betwen the surface and the air, and also significant (in part due to the small heat fluxes involved, viscosity in the crust and somewhat in the mantle (where there are thick boundary layers with superadiabatic lapse rates) and thermal conductivity of the core) in parts of the Earth's interior) temperature changes will cause conduction / diffusion of heat that partly balances the differential heating.

Avoiding emissions now will be far less expensive than capturing carbon dioxide from air in the future.

In what would certainly be a huge blow to the US» formidable corn - ethanol industry, the California Air Resources Board is readying a report that says ethanol is worse than oil in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

A substantial fraction, about one - fifth, of our fossil fuel CO2 emissions stays in the air for more than 1000 years.

According to the 2005 Environment Canada Air Pollution Emissions Inventory, residential wood - burning fireplaces, dust from unpaved roads and meat cooking are larger contributors to fine particulate emissions than coal - fired geEmissions Inventory, residential wood - burning fireplaces, dust from unpaved roads and meat cooking are larger contributors to fine particulate emissions than coal - fired geemissions than coal - fired generation.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

Far from «greenwashing,» these offset buyers — which include major consumer - facing brands such as Coca - Cola, Toyota, Delta Air Lines, Clorox, Sony, and many others — invest in direct emissions reductions activities such as energy efficiency and low - carbon product design at a higher rate than companies that don't offset.

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net - negative emissions, a point at which we're actually removing more carbon from the air than we're putting in.

While complaints about air quality in the Los Angeles Basin date back centuries, research established more than 50 years ago that vehicle emissions were the primary cause of photochemical smog.

For example, the CO2 in the air would increase if the emissions and sequestrations both reduced if the sequestration reduced by more than the emission reduced.

The half - life for air is probably different than that of water, but the question is «How can anyone dismiss the impact of heat emissions without knowing how rapidly this heat is dissipated, by whatever mechanisms, into outer space?»