Sentences with phrase «for ozone pollution»

However, Birmingham still ranks No. 12 in the country for year - round particle pollution and ranks No. 21 among 277 metros for ozone pollution.

For ozone pollution, most cities improved, with some dropping to their lowest levels ever.

The agency has blown past several deadlines in setting new standards for ozone pollution.

According to Johns Hopkins scientists up to nearly 8000 lives would have been saved annually if President Obama backed the EPA's strongest recommendations for ozone pollution limits.

Maya Almaraz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, decided to investigate farmland's contribution to air pollution after noticing that five of the top 10 U.S. cities for ozone pollution are in the Central Valley.

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challenge.

Not exact matches

«To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has requested a derogation from EU air quality legislation in relation to limits on the levels of pollution from (a) nitrogen dioxide, (b) ozone and (c) other nitrogen oxides.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

They identified 10 environmental limits we might not want to transgress in the Anthropocene: aerosol pollution; biodiversity loss; chemical pollution; climate change; freshwater use; changes in land use (forests to fields, for example); nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; ocean acidity; and the ozone hole.

According to AEA Technology's National Environment Technology Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire — which monitors air pollution for the Department of the Environment — ozone pollution peaked in the summer heat waves of 1989 and 1990.

While it has been known for over a decade that Asian pollution contributes to ozone levels in the United States, this study is one of the first to categorize the extent to which rising Asian emissions contribute to U.S. ozone, according to Lin.

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.

Both the Park Service and EPA's science advisers have called for a strong separate standard to protect our forests from ozone pollution.»

Wheat in all the major production regions is more sensitive to ozone pollution than to higher temperatures, for instance.

The region is 10th for annual particle pollution and 53rd for 24 - hour particle pollution, but didn't make the top 25 list for ozone.

This region of the San Joaquin Valley ranks among the worst for ozone and short - term particle pollution — fourth and second spots, respectively.

Phloretin CF features a patented synergistic combination of 2 % phloretin, 10 % pure vitamin C (l - ascorbic acid), and 0.5 % ferulic acid for enhanced protection against atmospheric skin aging — environmental damage and premature signs of aging caused by free radicals from UVA / UVB, infrared radiation (IRA), and ozone pollution (O3).

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, soil erosion, acid rain, destruction of rainforests, ozone depletion - the list goes on.»

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Proponents for the CSA argue that the Clean Air Act sets unachievable goals, especially for tropospheric ozone and nitrogen oxide pollution.

While planting trees for bioenergy would no doubt lead to an uptick in ozone pollution, it should be noted that burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — is generally seen as a larger and graver contributor to air pollution than tree plantations.

«Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us — and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap.

Addressing the 1990 Global Forum in Moscow, he called for «ecologizing» society and said: «The ecological crisis we are experiencing today — from ozone depletion to deforestation and disastrous air pollution — is tragic but convincing proof that the world we all live in is interrelated and interdependent.

It wasn't until the 2000s, for instance, that researchers realized ground - level ozone pollution from vehicles and power plants could actually kill people, not just exacerbate asthma and other respiratory problems.

Fred Singer, a true «scientist for hire» who has also claimed that second hand tobacco smoke is not harmful, acid rain is not caused by pollution, DDT poses no threat to environment, and CFC's are not affecting the ozone.

The new regulations, out for proposed comment, would limit ozone pollution to between 65 and -LSB-...]

The Convention on Long - range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Convention) under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is the only international instrument dealing with air pollution, and the Gothenburg Protocol to the LRTAP Convention is the first formal agreement to include SLCPs, namely black carbon and ozone.

But worth pursuing, particularly due to the co-benefits of pollution reduction for both soot and ozone.

It is only over the longer time scales (decades) that the additional predictability that comes from external drivers of climate change (for instance, carbon dioxide, air pollution and ozone depletion) can start to be useful — but that's another post.

It has been suggested that a top - down allocation approach is more appropriate for boundaries where human activities exert a direct impact on the Earth (that is, climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion and chemical pollution), while a multiscale approach is more appropriate for boundaries that are spatially heterogeneous (that is biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land - system change, biodiversity loss and aerosol loading).8 Even with a top - down approach and a single global boundary, however, allocation is fraught with difficult ethical issues.

Given China's growing number of cars, along with other pollution sources — and Coke's growing market share in China, bolstered by its offer this week to buy Huiyuan, the country's largest juice maker — the machines couldn't come at a better time for the environment.How it happened Refrigerators used to rely on CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for cooling — until it was discovered they were boring a hole in the ozone layer.

High ozone levels downstream of pollution sources can cause elevated OH radical concentrations, which in turn increases the concentration of condensable species and thus the potential for nucleation.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.