Sentences with phrase «like sulfur dioxide»

Coal mining and power production release toxic heavy metals like mercury, respiratory irritants like sulfur dioxide and particulates, and large volumes of heat - trapping gases like carbon dioxide and methane.

True, if you look at it strictly from the point of view smog - producing chemicals like sulfur dioxide, new coal plants are cleaner than the old coal burners of yore.

In this model, a limited number of licenses to emit a specified pollutant, like sulfur dioxide, are issued.

Acid rain develops when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere combine with water and oxygen to form acidic pollutants such as sulfuric acid (EPA, 2012).

And several pollutants (like sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide) have peaked or declined globally.

When black carbon is emitted, so is all sorts of other stuff, like sulfur dioxide and organic carbon.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Going solar reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change, and also results in fewer air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, which can cause health problems.

That BACT process works well enough for traditional air pollutants like sulfur dioxide or particulates, but for CO2 it's... awkward.

Beijing's air is full of pollutants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and notably, particulate matter (microscopic particles like those in engine exhaust).

Not exact matches

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

Like most fully committed terroirists, Brandt uses no plastics, commercial yeasts, or bacteria, and no nutritional additives — although in a pinch he does use sulfur dioxide to control fermentation and bacteria.

This device can also subject test devices to lethal gases like hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen chloride, all of which exist in Venus» atmosphere and to which future probes will be exposed.

Free oxygen is not bound to another element, as are the oxygen atoms in other atmospheric gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.

Ground - based data are more detailed, and in areas like Central America where large sulfur dioxide - emitting volcanoes are close together, they better distinguish which specific volcano gas plumes come from.

On October 6, 2011, scientists using the the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission have detected a thin, tenuous layer of ozone high in the planet's atmosphere like Earth and Mars, in addition to the high layer of sulfur dioxide detected in 2010.

Nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride contain no carbon, yet emissions — measured by estimating how much carbon dioxide would exert the same climate effect — count in countries hitting or missing targets and the like.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

«As we clean up the energy sector's carbon dioxide, we also clean it up for [other pollutants like] sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides,» which have been linked to respiratory diseases, says David Hawkins, director of climate programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Concentrations of sulfate aerosols were especially high during these years before regulations like the Clean Air Act limited sulfur dioxide emissions that produce sulfate aerosols.

Pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and mercury are a threat to human health, and Democrats will continue to stand up to polluters in the interest of environmental and public health.

Coal - fired power plant emissions also contain many other toxic elements and compounds, including sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxides (NOx), particulate matter, hydrogen chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF), arsenic, and heavy metals like chromium and cadmium.

The team plans to investigate how to properly quantify and understand the compounded effects of both long - lived greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, and short - lived pollutants, such as tropospheric ozone, black carbon, and sulfur dioxide.

The failure to actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could spray water droplets in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere to do the same.