Sentences with phrase «nitrogen dioxide limits»

Similar how they are accountable for their own nitrogen dioxide limits in cities?

The context for this question, is the recent court ruling about the nitrogen dioxide limits in German cities (An english article I found about it).

Not exact matches

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.

Its report published this week says that EU limits on nitrogen dioxide are currently exceeded in 28 out of 45 UK areas.

Of the 43 air quality monitoring zones that make up the UK, 40 of them have already breached the safety limit for nitrogen dioxide.

As I understand it, the lawsuit was about forcing the cities to impose more drastic measures (e.g. ban diesel cars from cities) to stay within the «self imposed» nitrogen dioxide EU limits.

Council Directive 2008 / 50 / EC on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe provides for member states to submit plans to the European Commission to postpone the compliance deadline for meeting the limit value for nitrogen dioxide from 2010 to 2015.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has requested a derogation from EU air quality legislation in relation to limits on the levels of pollution from (a) nitrogen dioxide, (b) ozone and (c) other nitrogen oxides.

The Green Party says that London has been breaking European air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide since 2010.

This applies not only to the exceedance of the limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), but also for particulate matter.

«And we've shown that there are a number of times where the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations exceed the EU hourly mean limits for outdoor air quality.»

Brixton Road, Lambeth has claimed the «dubious honour» of being the first air quality monitoring site to see levels of pollutant nitrogen dioxide exceed the annual hourly limits less than a week into the new year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today strengthened the federal public health standard for nitrogen dioxide pollution, a limit that has been in place for nearly four decades

Since the growth of phytoplankton is limited by available nitrogen, and carbon dioxide is central to the growth process, Jones believes that supplying extra nitrogen to phytoplankton would increase the uptake of carbon.

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.

It is widely accepted that plant photosynthesis will increase with carbon dioxide, so long as nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, are not limiting.

The average residential levels of nitrogen dioxide were right at the safe limit.

Ecosystems need nitrogen and other nutrients to absorb carbon dioxide pollution, and there is a limited amount of it available from plants and soils.

The green group highlighted that City Hall did not publish a report in full in 2013 on primary schools in areas with nitrogen dioxide levels which breach EU legal limits.

Hot on the heels of the Unicef publication was a Guardian exclusive report which revealed 802 UK schools, nurseries and colleges — out of 3,261 — are located within 150 metres of areas where levels of nitrogen dioxide breach EU legal limits.

Recently, the EU has threatened to put Britain before the European Court of Justice and handed the Government a final warning to comply with air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

Lawyers at green group ClientEarth also expressed surprise that City Hall did not publish a report in full in 2013 on primary schools in areas with nitrogen dioxide levels breaching EU legal limits.

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.

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.

Insufficient amounts of nitrogen gas *, they say, will limit plant growth regardless of how much extra carbon dioxide is available.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) promulgate performance standards (limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and mercury) for new boilers, integrated gasification combined cycle plants, and combustion turbines; and (2) conduct a comprehensive research and environmental assessment program to enhance understanding of health and environmental effects of particulate matter and mercury and to demonstrate the efficacy of emission reductions under this Act.

Backed by 20 countries — and predictably, opposed by countries that still rely heavily on coal (Figure 1)-- the BREF includes new emission limits, expressed as wide, ambiguous ranges, for sulfur dioxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and particulate matter.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

For example, in 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to limit emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which are major sources of fine particulates.

The proposed limits for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) do not meet the level of stringency required by the Clean Air Act.