Sentences with phrase «more harmful pollutants»

Tall smokestacks, built to alleviate pollution close to power plants, may contribute to the regional air problem by causing emissions to stay suspended long enough to react and produce other, more harmful pollutants.

Not exact matches

More automobiles on the road and more factories at the roadside mean greater levels of nitrogen dioxide and other potentially harmful pollutaMore automobiles on the road and more factories at the roadside mean greater levels of nitrogen dioxide and other potentially harmful pollutamore factories at the roadside mean greater levels of nitrogen dioxide and other potentially harmful pollutants.

Indoor air is often a source of more pollutants than outdoor air and many household cleaning and beauty products contain harmful chemicals and endocrine disruptors.

Vehicles equipped with a diesel engine generally return better fuel economy than vehicles equipped with a gasoline engine, but the exhaust is typically more harmful in terms of emissions and particulate pollutants, even when it meets official minimum standards.

And a recent study using data from Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare shows that bike share has the potential to reduce even more pollutants harmful to human health by alleviating traffic congestion.

The American Lung Association recognizes that energy and transportation sources of air pollution are often located near where many people, especially communities of color or lower income, live and work, which means their exposure to pollutants emitted can be more immediate and disproportionately harmful.

Natural gas generates more than 50 % less greenhouse gas emissions than coal, not even including the many harmful particulate pollutants coal emits.

The solar industry helps make the world a better place — from protecting the climate and reducing harmful pollutants to providing families with more affordable energy.

In fact there is harm coming from believing CO2 is a pollutant - An example - London's Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution Worse Than Beijing's «Successive governments knew more than 10 years ago that diesel was producing all these harmful pollutants, but they myopically plowed on with their CO2 agenda,» said Simon Birkett, founder of Clean Air in London, a nonprofit group.

n ships and reduce harmful pollutants by 80 percent or more by 2030, preventing between 13,000 and 33,000 premature deaths each year.

Finally, if you get really tired of the US - bashing, you can take some comfort that though the US is the # 1 per capita producer of CO2, of which we are uncertain is even harmful, we have done a fabulous job reducing many other pollutants we are much more certain are harmful.