Sentences with phrase «emits more air pollution»

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«Garden equipment engines emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas like Los Angeles.

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

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.

Garden equipment engines, which have had unregulated emissions untill very recently, emit high levels of carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, producing up to 5 % of the nation's air pollution and a good deal more in metropolitan areas.

The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their exposure to pollutants emitted can be more immediate and disproportionately harmful.

A ship which is more energy efficient burns less fuel so emits less air pollution.

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.

This is because wood burning, even in the form of manufactured firelogs, emits more local air pollution than most other heating methods.

«Coal with carbon sequestration emits 60 - to 110 - times more carbon and air pollution than wind energy, and nuclear emits about 25 - times more carbon and air pollution than wind energy,» Jacobson said.