Sentences with phrase «local air»

The project helps control the negative environmental effects of an abandoned coal mine by reducing local air pollution from passive methane emissions.

Nor do they consider the ancillary benefits, such as the improved local air quality and reduced ocean acidification.

In addition, this project will result in tremendous increases in local air and water pollution, as well as contribute to global climate change.

Even in winter, rooftop temperatures can be tens of degrees warmer than local air temperatures.

And renewable energy projects stimulate local economies, create jobs and reduce local air pollution from fossil fuel - fired power plants.

Moreover the use of fossil fuels is being reduced further, improving local air quality.

Furthermore, coal use in household heating is a major source of local air pollution and these emissions are difficult, if not impossible, to regulate.

The report does not deal with the effects of engine emissions on local air quality near the surface.

It works to both inform the user of the air quality around them and also to inform the scientists collecting the data about local air pollution.

In many cases, travel insurance companies have their own emergency transportation services because local air carriers may refuse to transport a patient.

You can also catch local air - conditioned buses on the main road that passes the airport.

Each group has its own priorities for the bill's impact, ranging from maximizing green job creation within the state to minimizing local air pollution.

And the operations are removing oil that would otherwise end up in local air and water.

This will contribute to both global carbon emissions reductions and local air quality improvements around major airports.

As such, reducing locally - emitted CO2 reduces local air pollution deaths even if CO2 in adjacent regions is not controlled.

Reducing fossil fuels reduces local air pollution and its health impacts.

June 2017: Phillips 66 quietly initiates a permit revision process with local air district authorities to allow a 100 percent increase in oil tanker deliveries to its marine terminal at their SF Bay Rodeo refinery — site of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit oil spill.

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

However, such statements ignore studies that suggest fracking has worsened local air quality in areas undergoing unconventional natural gas development.

Please feel free to call about shipping of vehicles and pick up at local air

At first, local air currents cause these accretions to stick to the trailing face of the crystals as they descend through a region of cloud droplets.

The study did not look at greenhouse gases because they are not local air pollutants, and they can be offset globally by purchasing credits elsewhere in the world where the cost may be less to achieve the reduction.

Currently, when transportation and urban planners evaluate alternative infrastructure investments and policies, they may need to account for health effects from local air quality, a consideration that warrants further planning to avoid negative outcomes, according to the researchers.

There is also growing understanding of the links between atmospheric problems such as local air pollution, acid rain, global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion.

Surface transport is the most significant factor affecting local air quality in the Heathrow area.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

The tower, which was completed last year, is said to produce about 10 million cubic meters (353 million cubic feet) of clean air per day, with an average reduction in PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or less in width) of 15 % in local air during periods of heavy pollution.

Dunn pulled ahead of the others in part because he uses a wood - burning furnace, which produces local air pollution but lowers carbon emissions significantly.

Though it is a small country, there are two local air providers offering service to a network of airstrips throughout Belize.

They've argued that coal dust coming off the trains would harm local air quality and that exporting the coal negates U.S. reductions in carbon emissions.

BEIJING — For many of the expats here in one of the world's most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air - quality readings.

Local air transportation needs are served by the 160 - acre Santa Ynez Airport located just 7 miles east of Buellton on Highway 246.

Local air travel is also available, with both Tropic Air and Maya Island Air having offices near the airstrip in Punta Gorda, the main town in the Toledo district, with about 4300 residents.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

Here's Derry's critique, which includes a very important conclusion I'm sure these authors would agree on — that regulators should require monitoring of local air chemistry before, during and after drilling of gas wells:

Such emissions contribute to harmful local air pollution and — because the main constituent of natural gas is heat - trapping methane — global warming.

Low level sources get carried with local air systems; once packets of air get to the Arctic, I think there's less chance they'll move out again before dropping what they carry.

So far, the political pressure to produce domestic oil in a hurry has trumped public concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.

... Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming.»

While reducing CO2 - emissions by more than 425,000 tons per year, the project also limits local air pollution and minimizes health impacts.

The process generates toxic waste that contaminates local air and water.