Sentences with phrase «impacted by air pollution»

The text of AB 32 requires the state's Air Resources Board, the agency responsible for implementing the law, to maximize «additional environmental and economic co-benefits for California» and consider «localized impacts in communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution» in its plan for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

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«Disadvantaged neighborhoods have relatively high burdens of health problems like asthma and emphysema, which are exacerbated by air pollution, so a given amount of pollution will cause more of a health impact,» a department spokesman said by email.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.

«Cities need to «green up» to reduce impact of air pollution: The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.»

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

Using the higher figure in their calculations, they determined that a 67 percent reduction in NO emissions in the United States could reduce annual health impacts of agricultural air pollution by up to $ 660 million.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The PEGASOS project will investigate the impacts of European air pollution on climate change and vice versa by combining field measurements with state of the art atmospheric and climate models.

Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change on pollutant concentrations.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

The paper is meant to invite further research into the mechanisms so that we can determine whether these impacts are driven by specific pollutants in the air or water, by light or sound pollution, or other changes that may have happened to these communities, some of which could be unrelated to gas development.

The «Clean Sky» initiative, reports Israel21c is the largest European research project ever and is designed to tackle global warming — with a budget estimated to reach over 1.6 billion Euros, the project «aims to radically improve the impact of air transport on the environment with the goal of eliminating environmental pollution by reducing greenhouse gases.»

It is difficult to overstate the degree and impact of air pollution in China, much of it caused by coal - fired electricity generation.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiAir Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiair pollution.

In each of these steps they used specific modeling tools and datasets to estimate the incremental impacts of RGGI on the following variables: generation (in megawatt - hours (MWh)-RRB- by power plants, air pollution emissions, air quality, and public health.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

Provides that CAA provisions concerning state plans to address endangerment of public health or welfare in other countries caused by transported air pollution do not apply to a GHG because of its climate impact.

Further, the coal train traffic generated by this proposal will increase air pollution, which will impact the lung health of adults and children in Montana and globally.

Similarly, analyses consistently show the costs of the UK's Climate Change Act will be more than offset by a combination of fuel savings, avoided climate impacts and reduced air and noise pollution, even before wider economic impacts in terms of jobs and growth are taken into account.

For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.

By purchasing Gold Standard credits from this project, companies will not only reduce carbon emissions, they will finance a world - leading community - impact project that delivers against a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: reducing deforestation, tackling fuel poverty and reducing household air pollution.»

Women in households without access to modern energy dedicate on average 1.4 hours a day collecting wood and women also spend several hours each day cooking using traditional stoves, and are thereby the most impact by household air pollution.

The new study follows up on that work by evaluating the greenhouse - gas (GHG) emissions reductions, air - pollution health and environmental impacts, and water - use reductions from large amounts of solar.

The global economy would grow by 1 % by 2050, IRENA says, and global welfare, including gains not measured by GDP, for example health benefits from reduced air pollution and lower climate impacts, would improve by 15 %, compared with the current trajectory.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

Jeff Horowitz: As co-producer of the deforestation segment referred to as «The Last Stand» (airing in episodes # 1 and # 2), my job was to work in partnership with Solly Granatstein, an amazing, Emmy award - winning director / producer to create the narrative arc that took the viewer from the global problem of the pollution caused by burning forests, to the political challenges faced by many rainforest nations as they try to regulate this practice, and back to the U.S. for a look at how consumer buying patterns can impact the way forests are protected.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

The extractionist economy does the most harm to two groups — those already impacted by racism and marginalization, and future generations who will inherit the pollution we put into the air today,» said Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

This was made particularly clear in the wake of the influential Chinese documentary Under the Dome — an investigation into the health impacts of China's air pollution, sparked by a baby that acquired a tumour in utero.