Sentences with phrase «of air pollutants into»

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Meanwhile, in Texas, oil refineries and chemical plants have dumped a year's worth of cancer - causing pollutants into the air following Hurricane Harvey.
New School: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing pollutants into the air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at the hips.
While humidifiers, air purifiers, and space heaters are some of the best ways to control indoor air pollutants and heating, most people don't break into a smile about these traditionally unexciting humidity, air quality, and heating solutions.
When the trays end up in landfills — and 225 million of them do every year — they leeches pollutants into the water and air, according to the group.
Harmful gaseous pollutants in the form of volatile organic compounds are often released into the air when chemicals are used, for example in cleaning products.
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.
Volk: When if the mind boggling facts This is no local pollutant: Every burst of CO2 that goes into the air from some power plant in Illinois is going to spread equally all around the world, and the same goes for CO2 emissions from China.
This burning off of uncaptured methane in addition to simply letting it escape into the air — a process called venting — releases pollutants and the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
Satellite images and atmospheric models such as these have helped Jaffe demonstrate how mercury and other emissions from China feed into a complex network of air currents that distribute pollutants across the globe.
Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuAir pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuair quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.
And when these ships are dismantled under primitive conditions, like on the beaches outside Chittagong, a number of pollutants are released into the air.
When we burn these fuels we release a toxic soup of pollutants into the air.
The chemical industry relies on catalysts for 90 percent of its processes — everything from refining oil, turning petroleum into plastic, and producing fertilizers food and medicine, to scrubbing the air of noxious pollutants emitted from cars and factories.
Though mercury often originates as an air pollutant from chlorine processing plants, coal - fired power plants, and the burning of medical waste, it can ultimately make its way into bodies of water.
All of these indoor air pollutants get into our lungs and circulate through the body... not an ideal situation, especially where young kids and babies are concerned.
Surprisingly we come into contact with heavy metals in everyday life — through the air we breathe (think vehicle emissions and other environmental pollutants), in the food we eat (non-organic foods that have been treated with pesticides and herbicides), if you have dental fillings made from mercury - containing amalgam, and certain types of large fish (such as king mackerel, swordfish, orange roughy, marlin, tuna steaks, and canned «white» albacore).
In the event of a major eruption, areas beyond the current exclusion zones may be affected, and the resulting ash plumes and release of particulate and gaseous pollutants into the air may have an impact on health.
Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.
Instead of just catching indoor air pollutants, the Molekule device is claimed to actually destroy them by breaking them down into harmless elements.
The paper is meant to invite further research into the mechanisms so that we can determine whether these impacts are driven by specific pollutants in the air or water, by light or sound pollution, or other changes that may have happened to these communities, some of which could be unrelated to gas development.
Whats even more frustrating is that those generations are still in power and are doing little, if anything, to stop the release of pollutants into the air.
Emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere from human activities affect both the quality of the air we breathe and Earth's climate.
Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide
A major concern among scientists has been the environmental effect of pumping pollutants directly into the Arctic region, where exhaust impurities released by the burning of ships» bunker fuel are known to elevate ambient air and ice temperatures.
These pollutants get into the air and cause a lot of problems, including thousands of premature deaths every year.
On January 2, 2011, EPA's motor vehicle GHG emission standards will go into effect, making GHGs air pollutants «subject to regulation» under the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting prograir pollutants «subject to regulation» under the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting progrAir Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.
Air pollution refers to the release of pollutants into the air that are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whoAir pollution refers to the release of pollutants into the air that are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whoair that are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whole.
SCALIA, J. (Dissenting, page 08): «Air pollutant» is defined by the Act as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqAir pollutant» is defined by the Act as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqair pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqair
Since greenhouse gases come within the capacious phrase «any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air,» they must also be «air pollution agent [s] or combination [s] of such agents,» and therefore meet the definition of «air pollutant [s].»
Page 26 (Opinion): The statutory text reads: «The Clean Air Act's sweeping definition of «air pollutant» includes «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqAir Act's sweeping definition of «air pollutant» includes «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqair pollutant» includes «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqair pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.&raqair
Power plants still loose mercury and other pollutants into the air, and afflict, injure, and shorten the lifespan of millions.
Releases of dioxin, pthalates, furans, and other persistent organic pollutants are released into the air and find their way into drinking water.
Stronger hoses and tighter connections in the Vanguard's air conditioning system reduce the amount of concentrated global warming pollutants, called hydrofluorocarbons, which leak into the air.
Commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollutants into the air globally as the total amount released by the world's cars, according to a new study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
[132] Policies implemented by governments have included [133][134][135] national and regional targets to reduce emissions, promoting energy efficiency, and support for renewable energy such as Solar energy as an effective use of renewable energy because solar uses energy from the sun and does not release pollutants into the air.
I believe your point in this issue is saying that trees will remove the pollutants and keep them, where as the production of E85 will put the pollutants back into the air, if I understand you correctly, at lest in part.
Plug it into your cigarette lighter, and it generates billions of negative ions that act as magnets to draw microscopic pollutants out of the air.
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