Sentences with phrase «of other air pollution»

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

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Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

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.

Special Report 20, Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal - Burning and Other Major Sources of Air Pollution in China, provides the first comprehensive assessment of the current and predicted burdens of disease attributable to coal - burning and other major sources of particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) in China at the national and provincial leOther Major Sources of Air Pollution in China, provides the first comprehensive assessment of the current and predicted burdens of disease attributable to coal - burning and other major sources of particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) in China at the national and provincial leveAir Pollution in China, provides the first comprehensive assessment of the current and predicted burdens of disease attributable to coal - burning and other major sources of particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) in China at the national and provincial leother major sources of particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) in China at the national and provincial leveair pollution (PM2.5) in China at the national and provincial levels.

But even after taking into account state gas taxes, blending requirements aimed at reducing air pollution and other environmental and climate fees attached to each gallon of fuel, it appears drivers...

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).

Environment and Clean Energy: China's well - documented problems with air, water and other forms of environmental pollution represent a major challenge for policymakers and society.

The bullish export statistics come despite scores of steel mills and other industrials in China being shut down or operating below full capacity since early November as part of China's attempts to curb air pollution during the nation's winter months.

Other cities have ambitious programs to apply the Internet of things and big data to cut carbon, relieve traffic congestion and air pollution, and generally make our cities more livable.

Thus, as Christians in Latin America we choose life over death by combating the deterioration of the natural environment and the pollution of soil, air, water, and other elements.

Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of habitat for other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.

The report also says that air pollution can affect the developing brains of children, make other health problems worse and sickness because of air pollution can keep children from attending school regularly, leading to other problems that are not physiological.

Fast depletion of natural resources, pollution of air, land and water, the global warming and other atmosphere changes have catastrophic affects.

I also don't like the gas fumes, the noise or the air pollution they create, so I've somehow managed to get out of mowing the lawn both as a child and as an adult — in other words pretty much all of my life.

Incineration is a common disposal method, and the burning of the packaging, plastic bottles, nipples, and other paraphernalia contributes to air pollution.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has requested a derogation from EU air quality legislation in relation to limits on the levels of pollution from (a) nitrogen dioxide, (b) ozone and (c) other nitrogen oxides.

In addition to the tolls, the supervisor and others have complained that vehicles stuck in traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residents.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

Biello: So, since Monday we've had a suite of articles up online Mind from my brief time in China, and some other research I've been able to do in the U.S. covering everything from renewables in China to kind of, the state of the environment as well as some of these issues like indoor air pollution and the carbon neutral city and the rest of it.

Ammonia helps neutralize sulfuric acid and other acids in air pollution, so removing it from southern California skies could raise the risk of acid rain.

That has helped to boost rates of cardiovascular disease and other health effects of such air pollution, a problem that combined with the health effects of air pollution from industrial coal burning that costs China roughly $ 66 billion dollars per year and causes 760,000 premature deaths, according to a World Bank report.

She is currently involved in two new studies — one probing the effects of air pollution and the other examining the synergistic effects of smog and diet on respiratory well - being.

China, which generates more solar energy than any other country, is losing up to 11 gigawatts of power capacity due to air pollution, the researchers report in the Aug. 8 Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

Dr Meleady, a lecturer in psychology, added: «If similar interventions were to be implemented in comparable situations in other cities and countries, the potential contribution to reducing air pollution, improving short and long term health, and reducing effects of global warming could be substantial.»

These aerosols outweigh all other human sources of fine - particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according to new research.

Now, other sources of air pollution are becoming more visible.

Fires are more prevalent in other parts of the world, but the site's high - quality health, wind, and air pollution data made it attractive for study.

Emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine - particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according to new research.

For example, the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws contain «technology - forcing» provisions to drive the development of new technological solutions to pollution problems.

This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air pollution control measure in cities.»

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

The research focuses on the power of minute airborne particles known as aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.

In 2016 in Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the annual cardiovascular disease and lung cancer deaths from shipping air pollution.

One of the earliest compelling studies to suggest a relationship between diabetes and air pollution was an animal experiment published in 2009 in Circulation from researchers at Ohio State University and other institutions.

Indeed, he and others said, a number of solutions cost little money and involve already existing technologies or air pollution laws.

As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises from power plants, industries, vehicles and other sources of fuel burning.

Wildfire smoke is similar to other sources of ambient air pollution; its particulate matter can be so small that it passes through the heart and lungs, disrupts fetal nutrition, and slows fetal growth.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

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In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

With many sources of pollution in some parts of the world, however, air pollution also can contain a mix of hazardous gaseous molecules, such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide and other volatile organic compounds.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

Other preventable causes of cancer include drinking alcohol, eating too little fibre (causing around 11,900 and around 11,700 cases respectively, which is 3.3 % each) and outdoor air pollution.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the study.

«It will be important to explore how these genetic risks play out in environments that differ in terms of air pollution or other important, modifiable factors,» Belsky said.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.