Sentences with phrase «for smog»

However, analogous to the U.S. SEC's use of the 12 - month rolling average spot price for the SMOG measure of quantities of proven reserves, a reference 2 °C scenario can assist in market appreciation of companies» relative exposure to plausible future risks.

Existing sites would be covered partially by an EPA measure requiring energy companies to eliminate emissions of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, in areas that exceed federal limits for smog.

Regulations included in the Mercatus Center's requests for review were: national public health standards for smog and soot, and standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution from gasoline vehicles, diesel vehicles, and heavy diesel trucks.

London is notorious for its smog.

Another encouraging development from the EPA today — the agency has just announced it is proposing the strictest ever standards for smog in the US.

Fresno suing San Franciso and Oakland for smog damage at least makes some sense.

We have no evidence for SMOG being in the picture.

Once derided for its smog - laden gridlock, Athens has spruced itself up in recent years and (despite economic woes) retains a real metropolitan buzz.

On top of this, the EPA adds a rating for fuel economy and greenhouse gases, and a rating for smog.

Your Telematics unit is probably just tying in directly to the wiring instead of the port to leave it open for smog testing or other maintenance testing.

Years 9 to 12 group advanced, and the People's Choice Award: Liam McLachlan and Josh Caratelli, Elwood College, Melbourne, for Smog Game

Josh and Liam were also winners of the 2014 ACER STEM Video Game Challenge for Smog Game.

Erie County was assigned a «D» grade for smog pollution in the most recent State of the Air report issued by the American Lung Association.

Not exact matches

Though Tesla may seem like a perfect fit for a country with the second - highest number of millionaires in the world, as well as a notorious smog problem, many owners in China complain of being unable to find charging stations, according to The New York Times.

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

I am not a faint - hearted traveler, but I found the smog suffocating, and didn't realize how much I'd miss being able to use a credit card (for Americans, Cuba is cash - only).

The business case for clean energy goes beyond economic competitiveness: In countries such as China and India, delivering more power without adding to the smog that already chokes big cities is paramount.

But nationalism against the backdrop of massive overcapacity, a depreciated Chinese currency, and widespread frustrations about environmental degradations (for example, heavy smog in a number of cities)-- to mention just the more salient issues — has the potential to lead to backlash against Chinese leaders.

When I would complain about the smog as a young man in the 50s and the 60s, he'd say: «I know what you're AGAINST, but what are you FOR?

There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as national caps for industrial emissions commonly associated with smog and acid rain.

Automaker Volkswagen and two of its affiliates have agreed to pay West Virginia $ 2.65 million for failing to adhere to U.S. smog standards.

No one could live in southern California without concern about smog, for example.

We can begin to make our way toward wisdom by clearing out the data smog — by fasting from TV, computer, cell phone and pocket planner long enough to talk with a friend face - to - face, read a book or simply sit still and listen for the way of wisdom.

Lay aside for the moment conventional pollution — the smog above Chinese cities — which may well subside as these cities become more prosperous.

So off they went for the Cane Pace and... Then the Smog rolled in

All that smog too much for him?

A typical 3.5 horsepower gas mower, for instance, can emit the same amount of VOCs — key precursors to smog — in an hour as a new car driven 340 miles, say industry experts.

The problem hit the headlines earlier this year when the so - called «Saharan smog» settled over London for the best part of a week.

State AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as smog).

The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.

Elected officials earning a «thumbs up» designation included U.S. Reps. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) and John Faso (R - Kinderhook) for bucking their party and voting against the Republican - backed Ozone Standards Implementation Act, legislation that would delay federal rules designed to curb smog.

The bad news: the hot weather is causing a smog alert for the five boroughs, Long Island and parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.

China still runs on coal, but has a pressing reason for wanting out: smog is now too big a health problem to ignore.

The state is pursuing a claim that it violates state limits on smog - forming chemicals in consumer products, with a hearing scheduled for next month.

In the countryside, severe drought ignited wildfires that smothered the city in poisonous smog for six straight days.

«The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation,» Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal article about smog pollution.

«Smog particles are known to be very, very fluffy structures, full of holes, so they are excellent sites for ethane to grab onto,» he says.

Living for a couple of years on a houseboat off the smog - laden Newark, N.J., shore didn't help.

EPA's 2001 highway diesel rule required manufacturers to steeply cut engine emissions of soot - and smog - forming pollutants for engines sold after January 2007.

BAD AIR U.S. pollution levels have come way down since the 1970s, but there's still enough smog to raise the risk for cardiovascular deaths.

While events in Donora showed that air pollution can have immediate consequences, it took decades for researchers to realize that deaths from smog could be going undetected, lost in the background noise of mortality statistics.

The county also exceeds the federal standard for ozone, the main ingredient of smog.

Banned in Delhi for a decade, smog - spewing combustion engine — powered rickshaws are fading away in India and in many other countries, thanks not only to inroads by minivans, but also to improved rickshaw motor designs coupled with laws to mothball dirtier models.

Nitrous acid, for example, has long been blamed for instigating a chain of reactions that leads to smog.

Lu developed «SMOG», short for Surface Meteorology and Ozone Generation, as part of a group led by Richard Turco, head of the atmospheric chemistry group at UCLA.

Beijing has been battling an unwelcome, unrelenting and «very unhealthy» smog for many months, much of it made up of particulate nitrogen compounds suspended in the air.

Wood smoke is also bad for the outdoors environment, contributing to smog, acid rain and other problems.

Congested freeways crawling with cars and trucks are notorious for causing smog in Los Angeles, but a new study finds that heavy airplane traffic can contribute even more pollution, and the effect continues for up to 10 miles away from the airport.

Luis Cabrales, who worked for many years as a campaign director for the Coalition for Clean Air, a venerable green group that was instrumental in the passage of California's historic vehicle Smog Check Program in the early 1970s, has spent most of his adult life fighting for environmental justice.

Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed in hazy toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of air pollution in California.