Sentences with phrase «nitrogen dioxide emissions»

The courts have recognized a cause - and - effect relationship between highway constructions, nitrogen dioxide emissions, and respiratory ailments.

All the engines will have reduced nitrogen dioxide emissions as they will be fitted with AdBlue tanks.

The diesel model requires an additional reservoir tank for the AdBlue, the urea cleansing agent added to further reduce nitrogen dioxide emissions.

Missouri is among the states that received some of those funds to address nitrogen dioxide emissions.

Not exact matches

Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

For vegetable products, energy use often is the dominant contribution of carbon dioxide emissions, but nitrous oxide emissions related to nitrogen application and fabrication also may be significant.

The EU National Emission Ceilings Directive sets ceilings for each Member State for emissions of ammonia, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

In its test in its Danbury lab, the company plans to mix carbon dioxide, air and nitrogen to simulate coal plant emissions and then shoot those gases into a fuel cell stack.

«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

Other harmful emissions, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, dropped similarly.

Emissions of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, the main sources of acid rain pollution, also fell by 38 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

EMISSIONS of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from shipping in the English Channel are «almost equivalent to those of Denmark», according to a study of marine pollution by Lloyd's Register.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

NOx gases represent some of the most reactive gases produced from diesel combustion and other fossil fuels, but the emissions limits for nitrogen dioxide are regularly exceeded, especially in urban areas.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

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.

The system produces lower emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide than incinerators designed to burn tyres and produce electricity, say the engineers.

A study commissioned by Iridium found that between the service's proposed start in 2017 and 2030, the technology should save airlines about $ 7 billion on fuel and cut carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 35 million tonnes.

An analysis of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands of metric tons per degree Celsius increase.

In fact, however, total emissions of sulfur dioxide were slightly lower in 1970 (15.8 million tons) than in 1980, and total emissions of nitrogen oxides were much lower (3.9 million tons).

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

For the MERCEDES - BENZ CLS - Class Shooting Brake selected, data type, mileage and driving style, results are estimated for total emissions for carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate (PM10).

According to GM, the new Duramax turbo - diesel will boost efficiency by 25 percent, while cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 13 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 percent.

For the MERCEDES - BENZ C - Class Saloon selected, data type, mileage and driving style, results are estimated for total emissions for carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate (PM10).

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

For example, just as you can buy, sell and trade the rights to emit sulfur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the US, the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU - ETS) lets you do the same for carbon dioxide.

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

Life on land: Generating sustainable electricity indirectly avoids, for example, emissions of nitrogen, soot and sulphur dioxide.

The 300 plants produce one - quarter of all the electricity generated in the EU but are responsible for more than 70 % of the EU's sulphur dioxide emissions and more than 40 % of nitrogen oxide emissions from the power sector.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

These changes in land use would be expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from soils, and increase carbon sequestering by means of an increase in soil organic matter.However, this reduction in amount of land in summerfallow, and an increase in land in crop, has been accompanied by an increase in use of nitrogen fertilizers.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, fossil fuels are lethal for environmental ecosystems (in addition to causing massive landslides, oil spills, underground tar leaks, and all of that good stuff) and produce extremely lethal toxic air emissions, including methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide.

Technology has enormously reduced traditional tailpipe emissions («criteria pollutants,» including particulates, nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxide and lead).

The goal was to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 90 percent, and nitrogen oxides by 72 percent by 2030.

An analysis of emissions prepared for the lawsuit shows that the three plants emit nearly 200,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide every year.

Reducing carbon emissions will also cut particle pollution, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by more than 25 percent.

But China also emits a significant amount of GHGs besides carbon dioxide — methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride and nitrogen trifluoride — collectively referred to as non-CO2 GHG emissions.

«Ecological treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide, which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.

And fewer emissions of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide as well.

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

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.