Sentences with phrase «more environmental pollutants»

Not exact matches

NRG's plants in Tonawanda and Dunkirk emitted more pollutants than any other New York power plant and were the 31st and 155th dirtiest power plants in America in 2005, respectively, according to a Environmental Integrity Project report.

The 50 MW is enough to power 6,500 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 45,300 tons per year as well as reducing other environmental pollutants.

Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, says that ICP seems to offer one clear advantage over reverse osmosis: it does a better job of sifting out charged pollutants and could be more efficient at removing bacteria and some industrial waste compounds.

Oily hair absorbs the air pollutant ozone seven times more than clean hair, according to environmental engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tires deliver 25 percent more energy than coal, with an emission profile of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that is about the same, making them acceptable as an industrial fuel.

While this type of sampling is rudimentary, the bucket tests were more than what Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality had done; the regulatory agency relied mainly on Shell's emissions data, which indicated that concentration levels of pollutants fell below the permitted state limits.

This could be due to the fact that, in Adélie Land, the more severe environmental conditions, combined with the increasing presence of other pollutants (pesticides, PCBs), magnify the impact of mercury contamination.

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

In a new study published in Environmental Research, scientists examined samples of the penis bone — a bone called the baculum that allows some mammals to have longer, more successful mating sessions — to see if environmental pollutants might be effecting tEnvironmental Research, scientists examined samples of the penis bone — a bone called the baculum that allows some mammals to have longer, more successful mating sessions — to see if environmental pollutants might be effecting tenvironmental pollutants might be effecting their density.

«Airborne pollutants pose the biggest environmental threat to public health, so we hope these specific estimates help to make the impacts more tangible to concerned citizens.»

Gu is an author of more than 250 journal publications, books and book chapters on biogeochemical transformation and transport of environmental pollutants, such as mercury and uranium, soil carbon degradation, mineral interfacial interactions and spectroscopic studies.

Antidepressants, such as venlafaxine (VFX), which are considered emerging environmental pollutants, are increasingly more present in the marine environment, and recent evidence suggest that they might have adverse effects on fish behaviour.

What's more, environmental factors, such as pollutants and toxins, may also weaken your immune system over time.

While tap water might look clear and clean, it could be hiding more than 300 pollutants, according to my good friends at the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

The Environmental Protection Agency has found indoor air can be filled with more pollutants than outdoor air, which can ultimately lead to symptoms of «sick building syndrome»: tiredness, fogginess, and lack of concentration.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns, «Indoor air levels of many pollutants may be 2 — 5 times, and on occasion more than 100 times, higher than outdoor levels.»

Numerous studies confirm that pollutants such as heavy metals and other environmental toxins can have long - term impacts on our immunity, vitality, neurological health and more.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), «studies of human exposure to air pollutants by EPA indicate that indoor levels of pollutants may be 2 to 5 times — and occasionally more than 100 times — higher than outdoor pollutant levels.»

It takes more land, water, produces more CO2 + environmental pollutants / waste to produce animal products.

The same environmental pollutants, same type of medical care, same mix of genetics, same sources of stress as well as ways of dealing with that stress that make life - style matched comparisons much more straight forward.

We're exposed to many daily environmental pollutants and toxins, in our foods (via pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers), the air we breathe, our water supply, medications and vaccines, household cleaning products, beauty and personal care products, plastics, and more.

But indoor air pollutants can also have more lasting impacts on health, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

When exfoliating in the morning, this leaves pores open and more susceptible to more congestion coming through from makeup, and environmental pollutants, which of course then leads to more acne + irritation + congestion + premature aging.

Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that preterm births associated with particulate matter — a type of pollutant — led to more than $ 4 billion in economic costs in 2010 due to medical care and lost productivity that results from disability.

Late in October, California Governor Jerry Brown threatened to sue the administration of President Donald Trump for implementation of environmental policies focused more on real pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) and less on contrived ones (e.g., carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.

Under the previous president, Barack Obama, the U.S. used environmental rules to encourage the closing or costly upgrade of coal plants because burning the fuel emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and 28 percent more pollutants than heating oil.

Prior to joining UCS in 2006, Ms. Stillerman served as deputy director of the Environment and Health Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, where for more than eight years she advocated for national and international policies to protect public health from pesticides and other toxic environmental pollutants.

However, if environmental impacts such as emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases were monetized and included in energy prices, more renewable energy technologies may become economically attractive.

The combination of cleaner gasoline and diesel fuels, modernized equipment and facilities and more fuel - efficient vehicles has helped reduce U.S. air pollutants by 70 percent between 1970 and 2014 even as vehicle miles traveled increased by more than 174 percent, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bart, US environmental laws are getting more and more stringent — think of the six pollutants covered by the National Ambient Air Qualify Standards.

«The EPA estimates the oil and gas industry releases 127,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants every year, second only to power plants and more than any of the other industries already reporting» it, Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project, said in a statement.

While scientists working in the nascent field of environmental nanotechnology have already demonstrated its benefits in cleaning up pollutants and monitoring and preventing their spread, others, more concerned about the long - term effects related to exposure and chemical reactivity, have called for studies into ecotoxicology.