Sentences with phrase «forming volatile organic compounds»

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

The standards we recommend in this report would also significantly reduce emissions of other air pollutants, specifically smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic pollutants like benzene that cause cancer and are associated with a host of other health problems.

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Harmful gaseous pollutants in the form of volatile organic compounds are often released into the air when chemicals are used, for example in cleaning products.

The pollutant that has declined the least is ozone, a hard - to - control noxious gas formed when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds react with sunlight.

Much of this haze is formed from volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, and fine particulate matter from tailpipe emissions.

Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicle fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat.

This way, the volatile organic compounds that make the tea so powerful don't escape in the form of steam.

As if sweltering heat weren't bad enough, Europeans also suffered through a higher - than - normal number of days with dangerous smog levels that year.6 Smog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vapor.

Volatile organic compounds or VOCs are produced from solids and liquids in the form of a gas.

Aerosol «blue haze», as seen here in the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, is formed by the oxidation of volatile organic compounds emitted by trees.

Noxious compounds like volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hyrdrocarbons (PAHs), and toxic heavy metals combine to form fine dust that inflames the lungs and invades the bloodstream, liver, even the brain when inhaled.

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) react to form ground - level ozone, or smog.