Sentences with phrase «of regional air quality»

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

Al Carlacci, the regional air pollutant control engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said he doesn't need a meter or an air quality monitor to tell him that there's some dirty air in the West Side near the Peace Bridge, where studies have shown high levels of asthma.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

«It was a unique opportunity to quantify directly, and for the very first time, the contribution of power plants to regional air quality,» he says.

They assembled a group of researchers from the University of California, Irvine; the California Energy Commission; and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, many of whom had previously collaborated on regional air quality projects.

«In addition to highlighting the benefits of strengthening the NAAQS, this report can help guide local and regional air quality management decisions,» said report co-author Gary Ewart, MHS, chief of the ATS advocacy and government relations program.

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

This study improves the understanding of the effectiveness of pollution controls and how local and regional weather can affect air quality.

Air quality in the mid-21st century for the city of Paris under two climate scenarios; from the regional to local scale.

Beyond the climate benefits of reduced CO2 emissions, reduction in these pollutants is of additional importance at the local and regional level to address air quality and related health concerns.

An increasing aerosol load due to human activities decreases regional air quality and the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface.

We have developed the Integrated Climate and Air Quality Modeling System (ICAMS) through the one - way nesting of global — regional models to examine the changes in the surface ozone...

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

A recent study simulated the impact of climate change on air quality at the regional level in the year 2100 (as compared to 1990).

Regulating services include air quality, atmosphere composition and climate regulation (Hassan et al., 2005), especially through wind - blown dust and desert albedo influences on regional rainfall, and biogeochemistry of remote terrestrial and marine ecosystems (Warner, 2004).

Overseen by the regional air quality control agency, the program aims to get more people out of private vehicles in order to cut tailpipe pollution and reduce crowding on public transportation.

Ku, S. Gaffin, and P.L. Kinney, 2007: Air quality in future decades: Determining the relative impacts of changes in climate, emissions, global atmospheric composition, and regional land use.

For example, studies examining the combined impacts of increased heat stress and air pollution are now more feasible because the resolution of regional climate models is converging with that of air - quality models (e.g., Hogrefe et al., 2004).

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction