Sentences with phrase «local air pollution»

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

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

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

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.

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

Though scoring highly in forest sustainability and provision of safe drinking water, this is offset by high greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution issues.

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.

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

Thanks to a series of comprehensive plans — named ProAire — over the last two decades, the city has curbed its signature smog haze and recorded impressive reductions in local air pollution as well as CO2 emissions.

If the cuts are realized, «you will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health,» predicts William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution agencies around the country.

BAQ 08 is upbeat on local air pollution.

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.

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.

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.

Mispricing from a domestic perspective is responsible for a large majority of the global subsidy: in 2013, local air pollution totaled 46 % of the subsidy, under - taxation of broader vehicle externalities (e.g., congestion, accidents) accounted for 13 %, 11 % of the subsidy came from undercharging for inventory costs, and general consumer taxes amounted to 8 %.

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.

Methane is the main constituent of natural gas but also a powerful heat - trapping gas that is often accompanied by other pollutants that can worsen local air pollution.

-- 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.

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

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.»

If the U.K. sold its shale gas both domestically and abroad to replace coal, it could reduce local air pollution significantly and reduce global carbon emissions by 170 megatons.

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

Combustion engine driven cars not only cause local air pollution, but the sector is also responsible for around 20 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

The primary objective of this WEO - 2016 special report is to make clear to decision - makers the critical role and responsibility that the energy sector has in tackling local air pollution, to provide new analysis that helps policymakers evaluate different policy paths (including the co-benefits and trade - offs with respect to other energy and climate objectives) and to provide clear recommendations for future action.

In the case of leaded gasoline, eighty percent of the phase - out of leaded gas had already occurred before the establishment of a trading system, due to the ban on the sale of cars that could run on leaded gasoline after 1975, along with local air pollution rules.

As the Chinese industry and power sector is gradually being modernised, with the aim to increase efficiency and alleviate local air pollution, much less sulphur will remain in the air — and the albedo will decrease again, allowing global temperatures to quickly catch up on the actual CO2 concentrations.

The CleanSpace network, which is separate from (but designed to use) the Tag, tracks user's physical journeys with the CleanSpace app, and delivers local air pollution information so users can choose the cleanest routes and modes of transportation, while also rewarding those users with «CleanMiles,» which can then be converted to perks from the network's participating partners.

Represented clients before local agencies including California Regional Water Quality Control Board, local air pollution control district, and other local agencies.

However, based on the significant levels of local air pollution from coal storage and handling that we have documented in our study, we believe that policymakers should at least explore the costs and benefits of requiring coal piles to be covered.

This is because wood burning, even in the form of manufactured firelogs, emits more local air pollution than most other heating methods.

Investment in coal - fired plants fell sharply, with nearly 20 gigawatts (GW) less commissioned, reflecting concerns about local air pollution and the emergence of overcapacity in some markets, notably China, though investment remained elevated in India.

For example, fuel switching can have a positive effect on local air pollution and company profitability, but its impacts on employment are uncertain and will depend on inter-input substitution opportunities.

Much of it, however, comes from how countries see climate intersecting with other things they care much more about, like local air pollution and energy security.

Farmers often burn this fodder, producing local air pollution and releasing greenhouse gases.

Biochar could reduce local air pollution from agriculture by reducing emissions of nitric oxide from soil, according to Rice University researchers.

Preventable emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — are among the easiest of those challenges to address, and policies that address those emissions have the co-benefit of reducing local air pollution.

The 18 million tons of extra carbon dioxide emitted from gas - powered plants providing replacement power for the loss of San Onofre mainly comes from out - of - state providers, so there is no substantial increase in local air pollution.

In China electric scooters are widely used and will contribute to reducing local air pollution.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

The shift will help the country meet its pledge to cut greenhouse emissions, reduce local air pollution, and cut the risk of nuclear accidents, she says.

This initiative comes as much of Northern France experiences dangerously high levels of local air pollution, leaving local governments desperate to get cars off the road.

«I think it has been quite effective,» said Sam Atwood of the South Coast Regional Air Quality Management District, the local air pollution agency that monitors the side - by - side ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

«Abundant gas may have a lot of benefits — economic growth, local air pollution, energy security, and so on.

«We found that the INDCs will also have benefits beyond climate mitigation — they will help countries to reduce local air pollution and curb growing energy imports in the EU, Japan and China,» says Jessica Jewell, researcher at the the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).