Sentences with phrase «harmful air pollutants»

Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide could also reduce the amount of harmful air pollutants circulating, which could prevent millions of premature deaths annually by the year 2100.

Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.

Among other uses, palladium is an important component in catalytic converters that reduce the amount of harmful air pollutants from cars.

The policy would also reduce harmful air pollutants like sulphur dioxide, mercury, particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides.

Annual emissions of harmful air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter will also increase by tens of thousands of tonnes, with potential social costs of USD170 million per year.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was part of a multi-institutional research team that found reductions in air pollution levels might justify cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which often go hand - in - hand with harmful air pollutants.

This system includes both regulatory and non-regulatory measures that target harmful air pollutant emissions from key industrial sectors and sets new ambient air quality standards.

Wanting to reduce harmful air pollutants in the South End, Albany County Legislator Samuel Fein is looking to require all permanent petroleum tanks be painted white.

Major harmful air pollutants, such as SOx, NOx, and PM, come from fossil fuel and biomass power plants, and thus, need to be carefully regulated.

It has sometimes been quoted that just a few ships (all using fuel oil with maximum permitted sulphur content) emit as much harmful air pollutants as all the cars in the world (if the cars were all using the cleanest fuel available).

When we cut down carbon pollution, we also reduce the amount of other harmful air pollutants spewed out by power plants, like fine particles — and that's a double bonus for health.

Abstract - Fossil fuel combustion processes that generate greenhouse gases (GHG) also emit and or cause the creation of other harmful air pollutants.

The researchers suggest that extreme heat events during summer months may lead to higher concentration of harmful air pollutants such as ozone, which is known to exacerbate asthma.

PNNL was part of a multi-institutional research team that found the toll in long - term, human - health costs justifies cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which often go hand - in - hand with harmful air pollutants.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the machinery and equipment that workers use for drilling oil release an array of harmful air pollutants, including methane, particulate matter and nitrogen oxides.

We have done a pretty good job of cleaning nitric oxide — a harmful air pollutant — out of big cities like Los Angeles.

The American Lung Association supports measures to improve the health and safety of uranium mine workers, and the communities where they live, including protection from harmful air pollutants.

For example, previous analyses of state renewable energy standards by two of DOE's national labs have powered new jobs and reduced carbon dioxide and other harmful air pollutants, all at little to no additional cost to consumers.

have powered new jobs and reduced carbon dioxide and other harmful air pollutants, all at little to no additional cost to consumers.

The American Lung Association supports measures to improve the health and safety of coal mine workers, and the communities where they live, including protection from harmful air pollutants.

However, molecules and particles with much shorted lifetimes also play an important role in driving climate change, though they are more familiar for their role as harmful air pollutants.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.