Light emitted by oxygen is shown as blue, hydrogen emission is shown as green, and
nitrogen emission as red light.
Not exact matches
As the world began to learn in September, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a shocking «notice of violation,» the vehicles met emissions standards for dangerous oxides of nitrogen, known collectively as NOx, only when running their paces in an artificial, indoor lab settin
As the world began to learn in September, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a shocking «notice of violation,» the vehicles met
emissions standards for dangerous oxides of
nitrogen, known collectively
as NOx, only when running their paces in an artificial, indoor lab settin
as NOx, only when running their paces in an artificial, indoor lab setting.
As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's
emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more
nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.
The world's food security would be ensured even with over 9 billion people in 2050, agricultural land area would not increase, greenhouse gas
emissions would be lowered and the negative effects of today's intensive food systems, such
as nitrogen surplus and high pesticide exposure, would be greatly reduced.
Global agricultural
emissions of the gas have increased by 20 per cent in the last century
as a result of widespread use of
nitrogen - based synthetic fertilizers.
Pea crops require very little
nitrogen fertilizer
as a result, which reduces energy cost and greenhouse
emissions.
«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.
When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air,
nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain
as little
as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant
emissions difficult and expensive.
California's vast agricultural lands — particularly soils heavily treated with
nitrogen fertilizers — are now responsible for
as much
as 51 percent of total NOx
emissions across the state, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances.
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.
Emissions decreased
as the proportion of soybeans in the diet increased,
as soybeans require less
nitrogen fertilization than corn grain.
Emissions of
nitrogen compounds, however, have not fallen
as steeply.
The
emissions will escalate
as nitrogen trifluoride's use increases.
Heavy - duty vehicles, such
as commercial trucks and buses, were found to be, by far, the largest contributor of
emissions, accounting for 76 percent of the total excess
nitrogen oxide
emissions.
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.
Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such
as more targeted use of
nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas
emissions, if widely adopted, he added.
ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce
emission limits for pollutants such
as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.
But the courts haven't always struck down EPA
emissions trading programs — such
as the trading program for
nitrogen oxides — and when they have disqualified programs, it was either because agencies failed to follow proper procedure (
as was the case with a Bush - era mercury rule that eased requirements on power plants) or because specific statutory goals were not followed (
as was the case in the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which wouldn't have necessarily reduced all interstate pollution).
The EPA has found that the defeat devices allowed real - world
emissions for
nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that's been linked to asthma and other respiratory problems, to reach
as high
as 40 times the legal limit under the Clean Air Act.
All the engines will have reduced
nitrogen dioxide
emissions as they will be fitted with AdBlue tanks.
However, the diesel won't cross the pond in the same specification available in Europe,
as the SkyActiv - D powerplant has to be tweaked to meet the more stringent U.S. regulations for
nitrogen oxide
emissions.
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.
A series of 37 «eco-billboards» touting the fact that the Mirai's «only
emission is water» (at least at the proverbial tailpipe,
as there are definitely
emissions other than water associated with hydrogen fuel cells and any new car) will be installed with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, and these billboards are said to remove
nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the air.
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.
Here in Arizona, the EPA is proposing to reduce harmful
nitrogen oxide (NOx)
emissions from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a coal plant that is one of the largest sources of NOx
emissions in the U.S.
as well
as from the Apache, Coronado, Sundt, and Cholla generating stations.
These include a significant investment in refining infrastructure and technology to manufacture clean fuels,
as well
as projects to monitor and reduce
nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide and greenhouse gas
emissions, and expenditures for asset retirement obligations.
Using business -
as - usual scenarios for reactive
nitrogen creation and CO2
emissions, several projections suggest that O3 - related human mortality and crop damage will rise sharply in the next few decades, especially in tropical and subtropical regions where rising temperatures and rising NOx concentrations will interact synergistically to produce more O3.
Other new techniques of applying
nitrogen fertilizers, such
as nesting the
nitrogen fertilizer, may in future also become common, and their nitrous oxide
emissions will need to be measured.
A study this January showed that global industrial
nitrogen oxide
emissions declined from 2005 to 2014, even
as farm
emissions boomed.
Sustained harvesting of any biomass will require large inputs of
nitrogen and other fertilizers;
nitrogen fertilizer is a major cause of biodiversity decline and increasingly N2O
emissions are recognized
as a major contributor to climate change.
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.
The traffic - related
nitrogen oxide
emissions in the Federal Republic of Germany have fallen sharply since the introduction of the
emission limitation for road traffic in 1960 up until today and a further reduction by a total of 86 % in maximum
emissions is expected in the future
as well [58].
And fewer
emissions of pollutants like
nitrogen dioxide
as well.
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 reliability of supply provided by our nation's network of storage and distribution facilities has contributed to the increased use of natural gas in many sectors of the U.S. economy, which has led to reductions in air
emissions — ranging from criteria pollutants, such
as sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides, to greenhouse gases.
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.
Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer, both per acre and in total use, and represents a significant opportunity for
nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce
emissions as well
as farmers» input costs while maintaining yields.
We used the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) detailed CMAQ model to project
emissions for sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxides to calculate changes in air quality under each scenario in 2020 compared to business
as usual.
And an analysis done by the EPA in 2017 showed that Fitzgerald's trucks emitted 43 times
as much
nitrogen oxide
as trucks that comply with modern
emissions standards.
California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050,
as well
as reducing
nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.
95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that
emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic
nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such
as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2
emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.
The biology of ground just reverts to penalty per
nitrogen, yet the technology of modern farming removes most of the
Nitrogen emissions as does the reformulation of the fertilizer.
Those truths of the historic situations regarding CFCs and the ozone hole, tobacco and cancers, and sulfur and
nitrogen emissions and acid rain bear repeating over and over in contact with the media
as an opening gambit in countering the usual septic memes.
On the contrary, the measures needed to curb China's smog of life - threatening pollutants such
as nitrogen and sulphur oxides — scrubbers on power plants, for example — actually increase CO2
emissions.
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.
Annual
emissions of harmful air pollutants such
as sulphur dioxide,
nitrogen oxides and particulate matter will also increase by tens of thousands of tonnes, with potential social costs of USD170 million per year.
An ISO New England study found that
as the fuel mix shifted toward natural gas, regional
emissions dropped 91 percent for sulfur dioxide and 56 percent for
nitrogen oxide (
as well
as 22 percent for carbon dioxide) between 2006 and 2015.
Greater natural gas production and use also lowers
emissions of other air pollutants, such
as mercury, sulfur dioxide,
nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.
For example, early global chemical modelling results argued that global tropospheric ozone, a greenhouse gas, was controlled by
emissions of the highly reactive gases
nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC, also known
as volatile organic compounds, VOC).