Sentences with phrase «of air quality planning»

S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Proposed Carbon Pollution Guidelines for Existing Power Plants and Emissions Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Power Plants, EPA - 452 / R -14-002 (June, 2014), accessed December 30, 2014.

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Parks, North Carolina 27711.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards and Office of Research and Development.

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dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

The progress report also acknowledges CSWA's many collaborators who are crucial to the success of the program and describes the many areas of sustainability addressed through action plan workshops, including ecosystems management, integrated pest management, air and water quality, and energy efficiency.

The energy workshops will augment other workshops on topics such as integrated pest management, ecosystem management, and air and water quality, being planned by CSWA for late fall 2005 and early 2006 as part of the California wine community's Sustainable Winegrowing Program.

The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.

We do so in a way that minimizes our impact on air quality through means of transporting our products as efficiently as possible by structuring pallet loads, reviewing product mixes and improving route planning.

The results of the assessment must be used in the development of long - range maintenance plans that include specific indoor air quality components for each school building.

Comprehensive Health Policies: The District of Columbia enacted a law establishing a Healthy Schools Fund that includes directives to prohibit vehicles from idling near schools, implements the EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools programs, and requires a plan to operate school health centers by 2015.

«Some of the city's worst air quality, if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.

MPs were dismayed that business plans produced by the Department of Transport and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) do not mention air quality despite the fact that in 2008 there were 30,000 deaths in the UK linked to air pollution.

Responding to the Mayor of London's action plan to battle toxic air, Labour's London Assembly Environment Spokesperson, Leonie Cooper AM, said: «Poor air quality has plagued some of London's most vulnerable...

The sheer volume of additional bus traffic on these routes as part of the mitigation plan makes diesel a disastrous choice for air quality.

Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

This will finally shine a spotlight on the toll of air pollution on health and life, after years of inaction, which have seen the government sued in the High Court over its failure to come up with a plan to radically improve the quality of the air we and our children breathe.

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Supporters of such a plan estimate (PDF) that each $ 1 billion in school - construction work would generate up to 10,000 jobs while helping to replace or refurbish aging school facilities and protect students and school staff from poor air quality, mold, energy inefficiencies, and more.

[1] As one step towards accomplishing these goals, FHWA is sponsoring Web - based communities of practice (CoPs) to promote free and open knowledge exchange on such topics as environment and planning, air quality, high performance concrete, and transportation asset management.

Ballard Power Systems Deploys 10 More Fuel Cell Buses in China Oct 19, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) Canada - based fuel cell company Ballard Power Systems says it has commissioned and deployed 10 fuel cell - powered buses in the City of Yunfu, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, as part of the government's larger plan to address air quality in urban centers through zero - tailpipe - emission mass transit solutions.

Villa Features: - Private swimming pool of 4m x 8m with environmentally friendly water treatment - Portable wooden pool fence is available upon request (to prevent direct access from children)- Private Balinese gate (Angkul - Angkul)- Manicured tropical garden - Fully equipped designer kitchen - Complimentary mini bar - Air conditioned bedrooms with king size bed in the first bedroom and twin bed in the second bedroom - Open plan living / dining area - Spacious en - suite bathroom with tropical garden, soaking bathtub and separate shower - Superb quality personal care amenities and toiletries - Hair dryer - State of the art entertainment system (DVD / CD player, Multi channel television)- International direct dial phone - Personal safe - Complimentary wireless internet access

Villa Features: - Private swimming pool of 3m x 7m with environmentally friendly water treatment - Portable wooden pool fence is available upon request (to prevent direct access from children)- Private Balinese gate (Angkul - Angkul)- Manicured tropical garden - Fully equipped designer kitchen - Complimentary mini bar - Air conditioned bedroom with a king size bed - Air conditioned living room - Open plan dining area - Spacious en - suite bathroom with tropical garden, soaking bathtub and separate shower - Superb quality personal care amenities and toiletries - Hair dryer - State of the art entertainment system (DVD / CD player, Multi channel television)- International direct dial phone - Personal safe - Complimentary wireless internet access

Villa Features: - Private swimming pool of 6m x 10m with environmentally friendly water treatment - Portable wooden pool fence is available upon request (to prevent direct access from children)- Private Balinese gate (Angkul - Angkul)- Manicured tropical garden - Fully equipped designer kitchen - Complimentary mini bar - Air conditioned bedrooms with king size bed in the first bedroom and twin bed in the second and third bedroom - Open plan living / dining area - Spacious en - suite bathroom with tropical garden, soaking bathtub and separate shower - Superb quality personal care amenities and toiletries - Hair dryer - State of the art entertainment system (DVD / CD player, Multi channel television)- International direct dial phone - Personal safe - Complimentary wireless internet access

Last week: The Clean Power Plan's flawed approach in the energy sector and the role of increased natural gas use in improving air quality.

Instead, Division of Air Quality scientists sided with the utility and stuck with a dated pollution control plan, which they say will clean up the air enouAir Quality scientists sided with the utility and stuck with a dated pollution control plan, which they say will clean up the air enouair enough.

The RGGI states use the production cost model Integrated Planning Model (IPM) to analyze the impacts of air quality policies including emissions and allowance costs.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

These plans help ensure that the public lands are managed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield, recognizing the Nation's need for domestic sources of minerals, food, timber, and fiber while protecting the quality of scientific, scenic, historical, ecological, environmental, air and atmospheric, water, and archaeological values.

Requires States to ensure in implementation plans that: (1) in an attainment or unclassifiable area, any emissions increase from the construction or modification of an affected unit will not result in exceeding a national ambient air quality standard; and (2) in a nonattainment area, the emissions increase will not interfere with a program to assure the achievement of such a standard.

Excludes the following units from consideration as major emitting facilities or major stationary sources (or parts thereof) for purposes of compliance with provisions concerning prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and plan requirements for nonattainment areas: (1) those that are subject to the performance standards of this Act; or (2) those with properly operated and maintained equipment to limit particulate matter emissions or subject to a permit under an applicable implementation plan that provides a specified particulate matter emissions limitation and that use good combustion practices to minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

Recent EPA actions on climate, air quality, human experiments, the Clean Power Plan, the war on coal, and «waters of the United States» were used to expand its budget, personnel, and powers over the nation's environment, energy, and economy.

The plan estimates that «every fully vegetated acre of green infrastructure would provide total annual benefits of $ 8.5 in reduced energy demand, $ 166 in reduced CO2 emissions, $ 1,044 in improved air quality, and $ 4,725 in increased property value.»

Covers a wide range of topics: site planning, space planning, solar site survey, efficient envelope design, ventilation and air quality, provisions for PV and solar thermal,... lots more.

On the other side, the industry - friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter of support for the bill, describing it as «a common - sense plan that maintains continued air quality improvement without unnecessarily straining state and local economic resources.»

Precise predictions of hurricane tracks and intensity; heavy rain; severe storms; fire weather; air quality and chemistry, and climate change address societal challenges that include disaster mitigation, economic decision making, health concerns, travel and workplace safety, long range planning, and day to day decisions (an umbrella or a heavy coat, for example).

The nexus between energy and air quality is also a cornerstone of the plan as the state continues to combat its air pollution problems.

Achieving the GHG and air quality goals outlined in the draft Scoping Plan Update (earlier post) will require a renewable portfolio of transportation fuels well beyond the current policy trajectories.

You will also get a glimpse of what is yet still possible, with real - life examples of products created with free climate and atmosphere data, such as climate monitoring to measure air quality and temperature, for instance, to assist town planning.

Excludes the following units from consideration as major emitting facilities or major stationary sources (or parts thereof) for purposes of compliance with provisions concerning prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and plan requirements for nonattainment areas: those that achieve a specified limit on particulate matter emissions or certain national emissions standards for hazardous pollutants or those with properly operated and maintained equipment to limit particulate matter emissions and that use good combustion practices to minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

AM: Similar to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, a lot of things that achieve other goals in the plan also improve air quality.

As reported in New Scientist, Beatriz da Costa of the University of California at Irvine, and two students, Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto, plan to launch a 20 pigeon brigade to monitor air quality over San Jose, California, this summer.

Finally, we're planning to partner with environmental economists to determine the damage costs of emissions from all the sectors due to both climate and air quality impacts, results that we can use to develop alternative mitigation scenarios.

In these judicial review proceedings, ClientEarth challenged the UK's draft air quality plans for reduction of levels of the air pollutant nitrogen dioxide.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction

Key Accomplishments • Devised a cost effective mining design which reduced mining expense by $ 2.5 M • Designed an ingenious ventilation plan, enhancing the quality of breathing air by 20 % • Developed a mining design which won an award at the Annual Mining Conference of America based on its innovative and cost effective mapping

Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing North America (Princeton, IN) 10/2001 — 5/2010 Technician / Skilled Maintenance Team Leader • Provided support and technical expertise on Allen Bradley PLC - 5 and Control Logic, as well as designed new screens for HMI using RSView and mapped all data and alarms needed for monitoring production equipment • Programmed PLC's using Rockwell software as required by production, utilizing PLC as a troubleshooting tool to locate and repair process problems • Repaired and maintained all three phase medium and low voltage motors, programming medium voltage control relays to meet manufacturer specifications and monitor applicable data from motors as well as engineering data and motor manufacturing parameters into VFD's • Established PM schedules for maintaining floor conveyors, robots, RFID, air handling, sludge, paint mix room, and lifters, assisting T / M's with performing preventative maintenance on equipment • Ensured calibration of environmental equipment to maintain state and federal guidelines, performing the calibration procedures and repair of micrometers, calipers, and profilometers as required by ISO standards • Identified and developed countermeasures to manufacturing - related problems with equipment, monitoring corrective actions and resolution implementation to ensure problems were below 2 % of operational availability • Review associated work instructions for changes as needed to maintain quality, safety, and environmental standards, while planning and coordinating weekly safety meetings and training for team members