Sentences with phrase «old air pollution»

This clever trick mimics how Earth's atmosphere cleans itself, resulting in a low - energy, effective solution to age - old air pollution problems.

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Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

No matter how old the building is, there may be hidden indoor air pollution.

The neighborhood also has many older residents who are more vulnerable to health problems caused by air pollution, Stringer said.

From the 1,295 women enrolled in the study at the beginning of pregnancy, the researchers obtained data on exposure to both air pollution and lung function assessment at 4.5 years old for 620 (48 %) of their children.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

Amid demands for greater transparency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has responded to a subpoena from a congressional committee for decades - old data on the health effects of air pollution.

Republicans on House science committee want independent review of decades - old studies underpinning air pollution regulations

In his thesis, Leo Stockfelt, Doctor and PhD student at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, studied the link between air pollution and mortality in 7 500 older men in Gothenburg, between 1973 and 2007.

Since the Columbia team started tracking air pollution levels in 1998, PAHs have declined, which Perera attributes to stricter anti-idling laws and phaseout of older diesel buses in New York City.

The models suggested that levels of air pollution would fall without the government having to do much as older diesel vehicles are replaced by newer ones that emit less nitrogen dioxide.

The authors speculate about the possible explanations for the figures, including increased job stress, but this would not affect older people, and increased air pollution, which is known to go up when economies are thriving, but which doesn't explain the gender differences in the figures.

In a study of 6,654 middle - aged and older U.S. adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds, participants living in areas with high levels of traffic - related air pollution tended to have lower HDL levels.

October 9, 2017 What soot covered, hundred - year - old birds can tell us about saving the environment A unique study by UChicago grad students shows that discoloration of birds in museum collections can be used to trace the history of air pollution.

Hansell said that more recent exposure to air pollution was more important for health than older exposure.

Older women who live in areas with high levels of pollution (specifically fine particulate matter, which consists of extremely small particles that can be inhaled deep in the lungs) are 92 % more likely to develop dementia than women living in cleaner - air climates, according to a 2017 study.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

Beijing also has ambitious goals to control air pollution, and restricting car ownership and taking old, polluting vehicles off the road are two measures currently being used.

Daniel Greenbaum, the president of the Health Effects Institute, a 32 - year - old research hub focused on the health impacts of air pollution, said this preliminary reaction:

Certain groups are especially vulnerable to the effects of air pollution, such as: infants, older adults and people with lung diseases like asthma.

Air pollution from old, outdated, and dirty energy is a burden on Marylanders.

When the Clean Air Act was written in 1970, the bill's author, Edmund Muskie, had exempted existing power plants from the new pollution limits — he figured the older plants would get retired soon anyway.

The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.

Daimler's Thomas Built Rolls out Electric School Bus Three studies in California found students riding school buses are exposed to far more air pollution than expected, especially older diesel buses.

In the 1990s, air regulators tried letting factories and refineries in the Los Angeles region offset their pollution by paying for programs to scrap old cars.

The impacts of its reliance on coal are becoming more well known and recently there was much online discussion after an eight - year - old girl was diagnosed with lung cancer which her doctor blamed on 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.

As a result, both CO2 emmisions and plain old fashioned air pollution, which can travel around the globe, increased.

Old coal and nuclear plants are closing due to age and tightening air pollution rules.

When he was 23 years old, Macerl took over his family's farm but gave up the fields and orchards when air pollution made growing crops impossible.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

There are two EPA rules that are putting pressure on older coal generation, the cross-state air pollution rule, which is currently on stay until further ruling, and the MATS rule, which regulates mercury and other heavy metals and is scheduled to go into effect in April 2015.

Older coal plants will continue to be hamstrung by the cost of complying with non-climate pollution rules (such as the ozone air quality standards), plus the perhaps even lower price of natural gas.

Since roughly 640 million of the 650 million bulbs sold each year in this fast - growing economy are the old inefficient incandescents, the potential for cutting carbon emissions, reducing air pollution, lowering the frequency of blackouts, and saving consumers money is huge.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

And while it's hard not to detect a slight smell of cheese throughout, by splicing in real - life news reports of oil spills, air pollution, and scenes of climate change, it seems that such a revamping of the 20 - year - old television show would actually be quite relevant in light of the environmental challenges we face today.

If we are going to effectively reduce air pollution and address global warming, we need to shut down the oldest, dirtiest coal plants — and not build new ones to replace them.

The old cliché, «Location, location, location» applies to the quality of the neighbourhood in which the property is located, not only in terms of educational facilities, shopping convenience, and so on, but also in terms of proximity to potential sources of pollution (both air and water).