Sentences with phrase «on air plants»

Enjoyed your blog yesterday on air plants and tried to comment three times but each time after I hit Post Comment, my comment disappeared into the air.

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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Delta Air Lines (dal) is currently considering pulling back the reins on gasoline output to boost diesel production, according to a source familiar with the plant's operations.

Last week, on Thanksgiving Day, Trump announced that he was «making progress» convincing Carrier — an air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration manufacturer — to keep its plants open in Indiana.

When European aircraft maker Airbus scouted sites for its $ 600 million North American plant more than a decade ago it settled on a former Air Force base in Mobile.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air in Bhopal, quickly killing about 4,000 people.

Moreover the findings proved the efficacy of stringent air pollution controls on mercury spewing coal - fired plants.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

Upset about plans for a petrochemical plant near her hometown in China, a woman turned to a new method that Chinese are using to air their complaints: she posted a petition on the White House's website.

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

Sikh's caused the largest mass killing in the history of Canada by planting a bomb on an Air India flight.

Such enabling in community is based on a recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness of life, of men and women, blacks and whites, Americans and Nicaraguans, Americans and Russians, humans and the nonhuman community of animals, plants, air and water.

This mass - planting not only dents the reforesting goal, but it also helps to decrease the greenhouse gases and pollution in the atmosphere: Six Indian cities are on the top 10 list of cities with the most air pollution.

As someone who preaches both «the gospel on the ground» (how Christ came to save individual sinners) and «the gospel in the air» (how Christ came to redeem all of creation), he may be well positioned to take a Reformed church - planting movement to new corners of Christendom.

Getting some fresh air and planting my feet on the ground or pulling out the watercolors always helps too.

I researched on a hemp site and found this quote,» «Hemp does not require pesticides: while half the pollutants in the U.S. Today are sprayed on cotton plants, hemp is naturally mildew resistant, requires no pesticides, and maintains a healthy environment for the surrounding streams, air, flora and fauna.»

With cell phone in hand, a vista of emerald green rolling hills, and crystal clear cerulean blue skies, guests have marveled at the hot air balloon sights whether their feet are firmly planted on the ground or they are gliding in the air aboard one of the magical orbs.

A few trees turn golden in our neighborhood (including one the Mr planted in our back yard last year), and the air takes on a barely perceptible crisp feeling... and that's enough to get me excited about enjoying the new «season.»

On a more scientific level, live plants are known to rid the air of nasty toxins.

It can seem as if an adolescent is completely wrapped up in a separate world, feet planted firmly in the air instead of on the ground.

Only 10 % of the chemicals and pesticides used in conventional cotton farming lands on the cotton crops, the rest gets into our plants, soil, water, air and eventually back into our systems.

Although other places have open - air shows where exhibitors display plants and garden design ideas, the Park District calls its event «the one and only garden show in America that focuses on urban gardening.»

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

Since we homeschool, it's great on sunny days like today when we can be outside learning about clouds, birdwatching, checking out different types of trees and plants, playing with our chickens and breathing in all that fresh, spring air.

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As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.

Town of Ulster resident Robert Barton said he was concerned about the proposed bottling plant being built on a floodplain, as well as what the facility's production efforts might do to the air quality in the area.

«The amount of carbon that comes out that plant is zero, and we are going to replace that with dirty air and where is the environmental community on this?»

And the vegetation can keep the roof cooler in summer, lowering interior air - conditioning costs and therefore peak demand on area power plants.

With no chance of Congress enacting legislation to make these targets into actual U.S. law, the White House is depending on using existing authority under the Clean Air Act and other laws to set regulations in place on power plant emissions, heavy - duty vehicles and more.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

«I think the reason the plant's surface is super-hydrophobic is because it lives on the water and requires air to survive,» Yang Yang, a postdoctoral researcher on Chen's team, said.

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

In a push toward greener fuels, the Air Force has modified some of these jets to fly on a biofuel derived from camelina, a relative of the mustard plant.

«As far back as 1990, Congress listed 189 hazardous air pollutants that it wanted the EPA to regulate, but power plants were not on the list,» he says.

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

On 6 April a tank exploded at a reprocessing plant at Tomsk, sending a cloud of radioactive particles into the air (This Week, 17 April).

Called AmazonFACE (Free - Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment), it's based on a simple idea: For 12 years, researchers will spray pure CO2 into instrumented plots in the rainforest northwest of Manaus, Brazil, raising ambient concentrations to 600 parts per million — a level the world could reach as early as 2050 — all the while taking meticulous measurements to determine how the gas affects the growth of plants.

Here on earth, plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen and provide clean air to breath.

In this picture the seed, from the American bugbane plant, is adapted for air dispersal with dozens of protrusions to help it float buoyantly on the wind.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

The University of Kentucky, another coal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

As gas eats into coal plants» profit margins, new limits on mercury and air toxics emissions taking effect in 2015 will take another bite.

«The temperature and pressure requirements for the air cooled condensers on power plants are modest,» Pearce says, explaining that allows the team to use polymer heat exchangers to improve efficiency and cut costs.

The findings, published online this week in the journal Ecology, show that the type of plants growing on the surface of our peaty moorlands can change how quickly dead plant material is broken down, influencing the speed with which carbon from dead plant matter is released back into the air we breathe.

U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as they weighed the lawfulness of a federal regulation limiting air pollution that crosses state lines, mostly emissions from coal - fired power plants.

These suggestions included having plants in the classroom «to oxygenate and detoxify the air for better circulation in the class,» music in her lessons «to set a mood,» aromas «for eliciting memory, especially when testing,» and art on the walls «for stimulation and enrichment.»