Sentences with phrase «of cleaner air»

CNG buses cost about 10 to 15 percent more to operate than standard diesel engine buses, but the value of a cleaner air more than compensates for this (including in healthcare costs).

There a number of recent papers talking about 2W / sq - m more sunshine reaching the earth from 1980 on because of cleaner air with some drop as China strated to burn huge amounts of coal.

As the SO2 aerosols gradually settled out, temperatures rose to pre-eruption levels because of the cleaner air.

Richard Nixon imposed price controls to contain inflation, while Ronald Reagan protected the swooning steel industry from foreign competitors and the first President Bush championed market intervention in the name of cleaner air and accommodations for the disabled.

In coming months, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), which has 27 members representing medical doctors in EU countries, will be raising awareness of the risks of coal burning as part of its work underlining the importance of cleaner air.

The authors emphasized that their findings do not specifically address an individual's health risk or the personal benefits of cleaner air, but rather assess population level health impacts.

«There has to be a more equitable plan that accomplishes our shared goals of cleaner air, reduced congestion and sufficiently funding our mass transit system,» Markowitz said.

He aims to install 800 of his towers in public parks across China, not only to create pockets of cleaner air, but to bring more awareness to what is admittedly a huge problem that a giant air purifier — or even 800 of them — can't begin to solve.

«Consumers will receive a tangible benefit because the carmakers were overstating their gas mileage and cheating not only the general public but also car buyers,» said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch.

I don't know all his environmental positions, but I bet we share similar goals of clean air, land, and water.

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.

The Obama administration, in the face of what it deemed to be unsatisfactory congressional action on climate change, was muscular in its use of Clean Air Act rulemaking.

Kubica made the most of the clean air and gained enough time to pit again and emerge ahead of his team mate.

Part of the funding for those projects will come from ISTEA, the Intermodel Surface Transportation Enhancement Act, part of the Clean Air Act of 1990, that encourages municipalities to seek alternative means of transportation, such as bikes.

Then I put my feet up and took a deep breath of clean air.

«And at a time of increased uncertainty regarding protection of clean air and water and other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressed.

She called for a new Clean Air Act and said Government must rewrite its Air Quality Strategy immediately, commit to removing the most polluting vehicles from the roads as soon as possible and set up a national network of Clean Air Zones.

Funds Will Support Efforts of Municipalities to Meet the Requirements of the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Your Quote of the Clean Air Act omits a rather pertinent portion.

Hinchey was considered a staunch environmentalist while in office, haven been credited for support of the Clean Air Act and bolstering protections for the Hudson River.

«We definitely lost a lot of trust with the DEC in the last round, but we remain hopeful that the DEC can still play a useful role here,» said Erin Heaney, executive director of the Clean Air Coalition.

Fellow panelists Rebecca Newberry, executive director of the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, and John Washington, a community organizer at PUSH Buffalo, said the real issue was the structure of the democratic system itself.

In the video, Paladino paints himself as a victim of an «overzealous» US district attorney who charged one of his companies with a violation of the Clean Air Act in connection with asbestos found in the ceiling of a defunct Syracuse bowling alley it was renovating, and eventually razed.

Experience the joy of clean air thanks to the ultraviolet and ionization technology that has become a hallmark of Gideon purifier products.

The authors urgently call for confirmatory studies as even residents of clean air cities could be at risk.

Holbrook's technique could be a big piece of the clean energy puzzle, alongside technologies like carbon - capture and storage, and nuclear, says Steve Wittrig of the Clean Air Task Force, a non-profit organisation based in Boston, who was previously the director of advanced technologies at BP.

One of the lousy things about living in New York City is that it is difficult to get away: The journey across potholed Brooklyn streets, backed - up East River bridges, and highways ablaze with brake lights can take a good two hours before you reach the world of clean air and open trails.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, ensuring public health and sustaining a federal agency to regulate global warming emissions is crucial to the future of our nation and preservation of our planet.

Plant Kraft, another Georgia Power operation near Savannah slated for closure, has a history of «high priority violations» of the Clean Air Act dating back to at least 2010.

As a result, combined emissions of six common air pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutants.

EPA enforcement of the Clean Air Act is pushing the oldest and dirtiest coal - fired power plants out of the nation's power fleet.

«If you want cleaner [three - wheelers], you have to introduce new technologies and eliminate polluting rickshaws,» explains Sophie Punte, executive director of the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities, from Manila.

They are rather composed of filaments (clusters of odor molecules) of various sizes (> mm) and concentrations interspersed with regions of clean air.

When England passed its version of the clean air act, decreasing the amount of soot that factories were allowed to emit, the birch trees eventually returned to having white bark again.

«If you only save a little bit of gas, you only save a little bit of money and you only save a little bit of clean air,» West said.

The American Lung Association and other public health and environmental organizations recommend these steps as the core of a clean air agenda for the nation:

The back - and - forth debate on health is critical to the Clean Power Plan because the provision of the Clean Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 10).

Importantly, over this decade of clean air in pubs, the proportion of 16 to 24 year olds who smoke has fallen to 17 per cent from 26 per cent in 2007 — a record low.

The current effort to regulate carbon dioxide, in fact, stemmed from a 1999 suit originally filed by liberal groups against EPA, which eventually led to a Supreme Court decision that EPA had to act since greenhouse gases fell under the purview of the Clean Air Act.

If the cuts are realized, «you will totally undermine the ability of EPA and its research arm to set standards at a level that science can rightfully be confident is protective of public health,» predicts William Becker, executive director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a Washington, D.C., organization representing state and local air pollution agencies around the country.

Power plants are, in fact, regulated under several sections of the Clean Air Act, other observers note.

«It is a bit ironic the one advanced economy that has decarbonized its power grid would choose to put that in reverse,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

Doniger also dismissed the argument that EPA could not regulate carbon under one section of the Clean Air Act because it was already regulating hazardous pollutants under another section — the 112 exclusion.

But the UK government's action plan consisted of clean air zones in just five cities, which would not get pollution below legal limits before 202o in most areas — and even later in London.

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

«While nuclear can be a very large share of global demand and low carbon supply, we're not going to do it, I believe, on the current generation of technology,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.

-- Not later than September 30 of 2011 and each calendar year thereafter through 2049, the Secretary shall, in accordance with the requirements of this section, distribute to eligible consortia allowances allocated for the following vintage year under section 782 (h)(1) of the Clean Air Act (as added by section 321 of this Act).

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.