Sentences with phrase «made of sulfur dioxide»

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In the transition period the conditions for exporting organic wine to the US are the same laid down in the US organic regulation: «Organic», when no sulfur dioxide is added; «Made with organic grapes», if sulfur dioxide is added, with a maximum level present in the finished product of 100 parts per million.

«When you look at a satellite picture of sulfur dioxide, you end up with it appearing as hotspots — bull's - eyes, in effect — which makes the estimates of emissions easier.»

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.

Using a new satellite - based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human - made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

The precursors of acid rain formation result from both natural sources, such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation, and human - made sources, primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide resulting from fossil fuel combustion.

Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil fuel or the buying and selling of the permits for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.

While this number is higher than the previous estimate made in the late 1990s based on ground measurements, the new research includes data on more volcanoes, including some that scientists have never visited, and it is still lower than human emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution levels.

sulfur dioxide A pollutant made of sulfur and oxygen that forms when fossil fuel is burned.

By means that are not entirely understood, the tubeworm provides all the chemicals necessary for the bacteria to make food, including sulfur, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, and the bacteria manufacture sugars or some other form of energy - rich molecules that provide nutrition to the tubeworm.

The new research involves making a more accurate estimate of just how much sulfur and carbon dioxide gas were pumped into our planet's atmosphere following the impact.

However, the majority of coal - fired power stations in operation is relatively old and emits large quantities of smoke, carbon dioxide and sulfur, making China the world's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally.

In mid-August, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to make recommendations to the White House on how to reduce releases of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plants.

A NASA satellite discovers 39 unreported man - made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

The EPA's «notice of violation,» said improvements PGE made to Boardman in 1998 and 2004 boosted pollution and should have triggered expensive pollution controls for sulfur dioxide, a contributor to acid rain.

Coal - fired electric power plants make up the largest source of national sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

They now have to shell out a wad of cash to make improvements that will reduce — not eliminate — the plant's sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

For all the technological wizardry that has been suggested — from injecting carbon dioxide into deep seabeds to creating a sunshade by shooting sulfur out of man - made volcanoes — there is a simple, obvious, and immediately available solution: We can put the carbon back to work making food to nourish our growing population.