Sentences with phrase «of bad air quality»

The students were tired of having to have recess indoors because of the bad air quality in the Salt Lake Valley.

Unlike most tourists, who see only Disneyland, the beaches and other scenic attractions, Birnbaum was there to see the underbelly of a region that faces some of the worst air quality problems in the country.

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Residents of Kanpur reacted with dismay Wednesday after the Indian city was found to have the worst air quality in a global World Health Organization survey that urged the nation to clean up its act.

Pace only part of his problem... though a big one... his distribution of ball out if defence is awful... one of worst in EPL... slows down our forward movement massively and often puts receiving player in akward situation wher only option is back pass... He is also average in air... So his one quality is positional sense so he is alright as a bench player which is how Germany use him... So yes the guy is right we will not win league with this mertesaker starting

@Admin, I agree our defense is not poor... Mert - Kos partnership is not bad and both players I would say are top quality defenders... But both players also have obvious weaknessess, Mert, lack of pace, Kos, can be beaten by stronger players in the air... I ve seen top managers time and time again deliberately taking advantage of their weaknesses....

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.

«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.

«This is going to have a very negative impact on the air quality of North Brooklyn, which is already notorious for having bad air quality,» Brooklyn City Councilman Rafael Espinal said.

The Greenpoint - Williamsburg area has the eighth worst air quality out of the city's 59 community districts, behind highly trafficked neighborhoods like Midtown, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and the Upper East Side, according to a recent report released by the city's health department.

In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.

The bad air quality has prompted the Ministry of Finance and NDRC to negotiate with the oil companies about subsidies in order to encourage high - quality fuel.

But according to the American Lung Association (ALA), even though air quality around the country is improving overall, some 175 million Americans — 58 percent of the population — still live in places where pollution levels can cause breathing difficulties or worse.

The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.

Beyond local impacts like bad air quality and ecological issues, wildfires also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, rather than those trees sucking carbon out of the air.

Plus, they're often coated with stain treatments and flame retardants that are sources of toxic, nonbiodegradable perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are bad for both the environment and the air quality in your home.

London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first of 50 air quality audits for primary schools in the worst polluted areas in the capital in a bid to protect children from toxic air.

This is a shame, because it increases the cost of PHEVs and will reduce the take - up in Europe (which will be bad for urban air quality).

However, that's far from a bad thing, because the layout is intuitive to use and has an air of quality that rivals can't match.

A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold books are all eliminated by digital distribution.

In addition to bathing the dog, a good quality HEPA air filter will help remove allergens from the air, and a HEPA vacuum run daily can take care of the worst of the hair left on the floor or in the carpets.

We maintain our equipment to ensure it is in first class condition and with our state of the art air compressor and routine air quality checks as per PADI standards; there is no need to worry about bad air.

The second part of the exhibit showcases her series, Man Made (2013 - 15) interactive video paintings inspired during an art residency in Beijing where the World Air Quality Index on a clear day hovers around 350 (Los Angeles is 75 on a bad day).

One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.

While many sources of pollution can affect air quality, agricultural burning and the resulting landscape fires are to blame for the worst haze episodes.

The reason there aren't more bad air quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air Aair quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air AAir Act.

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As larger, more populous cities have worse air quality, this means only 12 % of the world's urban population are breathing safe air, putting almost 90 % of the urban world at risk of respiratory [continue reading...]

Press Trust of India: A study pointing that the pollution levels in New Delhi is worse than that of Beijing may have been quoting the data from the worst period of the year but the air quality in Indian cities is progressively getting worse, UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri said today.

Moreover, years ago China changed its policy because of the bad ambient air quality and from 2005 on all new installation have a state of the art desulfurization treatment.

«Poland has the second worst air quality in all of the European Union,» said Wilczynski.

The sustained burning of biomass not only releases the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane but also large quantities of carbon monoxide and particulate matter... during major fire years the air quality in Indonesia is many times worse than that in the worlds» most polluted cities.

With China dealing with civil unrest and bad international headlines over air quality issues, the country recently penned a joint greenhouse gas reduction agreement with the United States and also announced in September that it would soon ban the import of coal with high sulfur and ash content.

When it's hot, the quality of the air we breathe gets worse, and that's a threat to our health.

The nation's fleet of 99 reactors produces no air emissions, which is important especially in places where downwind air quality is already bad.

In the second study, for the next 20 years, even if, worst - case, we still use lots of coal, nationwide air quality for other emissions will also improve.

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Retiring Allen is great news for Memphis, which continuously struggles with poor air quality and regularly shows up on national lists as one of the worst places to live for asthma sufferers.

It has the worst air quality in the country, and companies regularly run afoul of exceedance limits, but in 2006 all of the oil companies were fined only $ 249,000.

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It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.

«The Tar Sands is the largest fossil fuel project on the planet, home to toxic tailing ponds and Canada's worst air quality, and yet Albertans are fined more for returning their library books late» says Gillian McEachern of Forest Ethics.

According to the company (based on information from the World Health Organization and the EPA), it might be better for people to track the air quality around them instead of focusing on their fitness trackers, as some 92 % of the world's population lives in places where the air pollution exceeds the levels considered to be «healthy», and even indoor air quality can be worse than outside air quality.

For example, on bad - air days in the South Coast Air Quality District in Southern California (when the Air Quality Index is greater than 150), all wood burning — including that of manufactured firelogs — is forbiddair days in the South Coast Air Quality District in Southern California (when the Air Quality Index is greater than 150), all wood burning — including that of manufactured firelogs — is forbiddAir Quality District in Southern California (when the Air Quality Index is greater than 150), all wood burning — including that of manufactured firelogs — is forbiddAir Quality Index is greater than 150), all wood burning — including that of manufactured firelogs — is forbidden.

Because they are not, thousands of healthcare facilities have bad indoor air quality, use noxious building materials, over consume energy & water and are not ideal for you to visit.

This means that just by targeting these dirty old clunkers, badly tuned rust - buckets, and street racers, we could make a significant impact on air quality, especially in urban areas where the density of vehicles gets high enough for pollutant concentrations to reach dangerous levels.

The asphalt that covers so much of cities retains heat and is impermeable; it leads to stormwater pollution and is bad for air quality.

Products like construction, drywall and subfloor adhesive might not be the first things that jump to mind when you think «green building,» but they're an important part of having good indoor air quality — something we've learned can be 10 times worse

Products like construction, drywall and subfloor adhesive might not be the first things that jump to mind when you think «green building,» but they're an important part of having good indoor air quality — something we've learned can be 10 times worse than the air outside.

However, the quality of indoor air is, on average, two to five times worse than that of outdoor air, and in fact, the EPA rates indoor air pollution as one of the five greatest public health risks.