Sentences with phrase «from dangerous air pollution»
They protect all Americans, especially the 6 million US children with asthma, from dangerous air pollution.
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The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event «when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,» said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
Even though outdoor air pollution can worsen the symptoms, indoor air pollution from household products, building materials (sometimes containing asbestos or formaldehyde), and tobacco smoke can be even more dangerous due to constant exposure.
I helped pass the Maryland Healthy Air Act, which is reducing dangerous pollution from Maryland's coal - fired power plants.
The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
In winter, especially, air pollution from diesel vehicles can reach dangerous levels and keep vulnerable children and seniors restricted indoors.
Recent legal decisions that Earthjustice has helped to secure have affirmed EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate pollution from vehicles and industrial facilities, but anti-environmental members of Congress and the dirty energy industry are determined to prevent any action to reduce dangerous climate pollution.
A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.
In less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollution.
The states represented here today have long been working hard to sound the alarm, to put smart policies in place, to speed our transition to a clean energy future, and to stop power plants from emitting millions of tons of dangerous global - warming pollution into our air.»