Sentences with phrase «impact on air quality»

Each of these can have a significant impact on air quality in your home.

This means that just by targeting these dirty old clunkers, badly tuned rust - buckets, and street racers, we could make a significant impact on air quality, especially in urban areas where the density of vehicles gets high enough for pollutant concentrations to reach dangerous levels.

Transforming Transportation — Transportation accounts for a major portion of California's energy budget and has a significant impact on air quality.

«In addition to their impact on air quality, smoke and odors in restaurant kitchens can cause irritation and discomfort for employees,» said Stan Mack, Engelhard's commercial manager for stationary - source emission systems.

Closing Nanticoke GS would have little perceptible impact on air quality in Ontario, and most particularly, at ground level where residents breathe.

Recent years have seen an increase in droughts and wildfires on a global scale, which have an impact on the air quality.

California's low - income solar and EV programs are also making a tangible impact on air quality, reducing tailpipe emissions directly in the community, while contributing to the state's growing clean energy capacity.

Estimating 2017 Global Wildfire Emissions in Near - Real - Time and Their Impact on Air Quality Room 0.94, Session AS3.4

«The AEP settlement will have an unprecedented impact on air quality in the eastern United States,» said Ronald J. Tenpas, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Although the most visible example of the future of electric mobility is the consumer electric car, the commercial transportation sector and heavy industry are two major areas where transitioning to cleaner fuels will have a big impact on air quality, GHG emissions, and other undesirable consequences of fossil fuels.

There is a lot of activity around those wells and that has an impact on air quality... The EPA will soon be coming out with regulations to deal with the air quality around natural gas production.

Problem number one in greenhouse gas emissions remains coal consumption, not to mention its onerous impact on air quality and public health.

At Airthings, Oyvind's love of the Nordic nature fuels his commitment to making a lasting impact on the air quality market.

Thus, wood burning for residential heating, and the resulted particle emission, may have a much larger impact on air quality in Norwegian urban areas than previously thought.

One of the greatest concerns with wildfires is their impact on air quality and associated health consequences; PM2.5 is just one of the pollutants in wildfire smoke, but its small size makes it a well - known threat to people's health.

AUSTIN, Texas — To reduce your impact on air quality, you might expect to trade in your gas - guzzling clunker of a car — but you can also unplug those air fresheners.

«This is going to have a very negative impact on the air quality of North Brooklyn, which is already notorious for having bad air quality,» Brooklyn City Councilman Rafael Espinal said.

Air quality measurements conducted by Buchanan Energy experts at two gas stations of a similar size did not have a measurable impact on air quality, officials said.

We do so in a way that minimizes our impact on air quality through means of transporting our products as efficiently as possible by structuring pallet loads, reviewing product mixes and improving route planning.

Our equipment is also regularly maintained to reduce its impact on air quality.

The study also highlighted that green infrastructure has both positive and negative impacts on air quality at street levels, depending on the urban location it is in as well as its vegetation characteristics.

Abt Associates used a three - step analytic process to estimate the impacts on air quality and public health resulting from implementation of the RGGI program from 2009 to 2014.

Exploring alternative agricultural practices that minimize such emissions and their impacts on air quality, visibility, health, and climate may be prudent in such areas in the future.

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Each shared car, she explains, can take up to 30 cars off the road and «have a big impact on decreasing congestion and improving air quality.»

Manage air quality from production facilities to minimize the impact on neighbors and the community.

We're particularly enthusiastic to show companies how much environmental and profit benefit they can achieve by investing in waste - to - energy solutions that permanently reduce the expense of fossil fuels while radically improving environmental impacts on air and water quality.»

We're giving away a Catalyst iPhone Case that is both waterproof up to 16 feet, meets military standards for drops up to 6.6 ft, and is made of premium quality materials including impact resistant polycarbonate, a soft - touch rubber bumper on the outside edges, silicone seals and air & water tight acoustic membranes!

They questioned whether Fresh Direct required such a generous public benefits package and how the city would hold the company to its hiring promises, and they feared the impact that scores of new trucks would have on their neighborhood's air quality.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

Many off - highway vehicles are left running at full power whilst idle for much of their life — such as telescopic handlers, heavy excavators and wheeled loaders — potentially wasting fuel with a direct impact on local air quality.

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

Ultimately, NEON hopes to show how humans can maintain our quality of life on this planet by better understanding how ecosystems deliver vital services — clean water, air, pollination — and respond to our own impacts on these systems.

«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

In addition to improving air and water quality, aquatic life and public health, the new technology would have an impact on inspiring new regulations.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

These discoveries are an outgrowth of research on PAHs that was done by Simonich at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games in 2008, when extensive studies of urban air quality were conducted, in part, based on concerns about impacts on athletes and visitors to the games.

SINPHONIE, an EU - funded research project on indoor air quality in EU schools, and its impact on children's health, has recently published its conclusions.

Already, the CEC (set up in 1975 in the wake of the nation's first oil crisis) balances new energy demands — such as screening new power plants on the basis of at least 23 different impacts, ranging from economics to air quality — with efficiency efforts.

Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuAir pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuair quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.

Since at least the 1700s, scholars have argued that geographic differences such as rainfall, air temperature, and soil quality can have a major impact on economic development.

«Smoke from wildfires can tip air quality to unhealthy levels: Researchers analyze the long - term impact that wildfire smoke has on air quality in the US.»

EPA, 2009: Assessment of the Impacts of Global Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Ground - Level Ozone.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

The concern that figuring out how to sequester CO2 could act as a «license to burn» more coal is important, since dirty coal has such a negative impact on local air quality and human health, in addition to emitting CO2.

The paper, titled «Characterizing the annual cycle of African dust transport to the Caribbean Basin and South America and its impacts on the environment and air quality,» was published in the Early View online edition of the American Geophysical Union's journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

This style of house leads to poor air quality and higher emissions of ammonia, which has several harmful effects, including negative impacts on aquatic species and crops.

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The Toolkit also notes that there is little evidence that investment in school buildings or environment has a direct impact on results with one strong exception: better air quality can help improve learning.

Geospatial Analysis of Remote Sensing Data to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Heat Island Effect, Air Quality, and Global Warming (2009)