Sentences with phrase «of air emission»

Represented industrial client operating a waste - to - energy facility in effort to stay the revocation of air emission operating permits.

What are the implications of air emission credit issues for power plants currently under development?

Both released harmful emissions of nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide into the air in violation of air emission standards.

This session solicits presentations examining all aspects of air emissions and / or air quality or climate impacts of methane, volatile organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides from all stages of oil and gas development.

Even though questions of air emissions, fuel economy, and safety have seemed so overwhelming in the U.S. over the past 40 years, BMW still believes in an automobile that is beautiful, energetic, and full of life.

When coal is burned due to combustion that is more or less completed the result is different levels of energy (B.T.U.'s), and different levels of air emissions (Sulfur Dioxide - SO2, Mercury - Hg), greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide CO2, Nitrogen Oxide - NO3), and amounts of ash that can potentially be toxic dependent on the conditions within the combustion chamber and ash that can or can not be used in a secondary market (ex.

The conclusions of your study are that «at least 89 % of air emissions associated with electricity generation could be prevented if electricity from photovoltaics displaces electricity from the grid».

Responsible for calculation of air emissions according to NESHAPs regulations (40 CFR Part 63) for a batch processing facility under a Conditional Major Air Permit.

Not exact matches

The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

The approval follows a 12 - month environmental assessment of the project that looked at the adequacy of emissions estimates and air quality modelling, cumulative air emissions, potential health impacts and worker health issues.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

• Alliance Source Testing, a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners, acquired Air Pollution Testing, a source emission testing firm with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Anchorage.

McCain expressed reservations about the rules and supported revising them, but said, «Improving the control of methane emissions is an important public health and air quality issue.»

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

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.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

More renewable energy in Alberta will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean the air, and produce significant new investment and jobs — particularly in rural areas of the province.»

But International Emissions Trading Association raises concerns over lack of clarity in the draft Clean Air Rule

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today released a new report highlighting examples of significant strides by companies in managing and reducing waste, more efficiently using water and reducing air emissions.

State and federal authorities, through laws and regulations, limit the amount of VOC emissions allowed, depending on regional air quality issues.

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Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground - breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (https://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/).

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.

However, Cooney added that even with the addition of a third gas station, the amount of emissions expected would not exceed air quality standards set by the state.

The proposed gas station ignited a list of concerns that included traffic and noise but air pollution, specifically benzene emissions that can occur when pumping gasoline and its dangers when exposed to children, was a fear that was repeatedly hammered by both residents and park district officials.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetusAir pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetusair pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

GREENGUARD Gold is an independent third - party certification that the nursery furniture item is low - emission — that is, emission of volatile compounds (VOC's) which can contribute to bad indoor air quality.

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.

Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.

Air pollution has historically been caused by industrialisation and the consequent proliferation in the use of «fossil fuels» (and therefore sulphur dioxide emissions) in the industrial process.

In modern Britain, traffic is the major air polluter, with traffic fumes accounting for just over half of the total domestic nitrogen emissions.

But there has been a hitch: Despite the fact that DERA was supposed to be fully implemented by 2010, each year it has been delayed in the state's secret budget negotiations, allowing vehicles with antiquated emission controls used by the state and its contractors to continue to pollute our air and threaten the health of our communities.

To settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the state attorney general's office, NRG agreed last year to shut down four of its units at Tonawanda and to reduce its sulfur dioxide emissions by 80 percent.

But with environmental concerns about the negative impact of aviation on carbon emissions growing, the tension between maintaining Britain's prominence as an air transport hub and its green credentials has never been stronger.

«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

So now we must rely on Covanta's yearly air purity test, to insure the purity of the emissions from the incinerator,» he said.

The loss in just a few years of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean, emission - free power, however, should be no consolation for environmentalists who truly support clean air and climate - change goals but ironically are celebrating the plant's closure.

Five of the DfT's seven public sector agreements were missed, with two congestion targets, public transport use, air quality and carbon dioxide emissions targets all missed.

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance.

As far as reducing UK emissions is concerned, it would make more sense to cut rail fares to encourage people to use trains more — instead of pushing people back into cars on already jam - packed roads, and increasing congestion, emissions and air pollution.

Cycling and walking charity Sustrans» chief executive Xavier Brice said: «The new Government must urgently improve the quality of the air that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliair that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycliAir Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycling.

However, none of the arguments above for expanding Heathrow, rather than Gatwick, is to say that the climate change and other environmental impacts including air quality, CO2 emissions and noise can be ignored.