Sentences with phrase «on air pollutant»

Atmospheric scientist Maria Zatko was close to completing her thesis on ground - level ozone in 2014 when she learned of a perfect opportunity to fill a gap in her research on this air pollutant.

In August, the development committee postponed its vote on a conditional - use permit request for the proposed Mobil station and Bucky's convenience store at the site near Glen Ellyn so information on air pollutants could be added to the record.

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.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

[1] Critics argued the Initiative, despite its title, actually weakened existing laws, such as the Clean Air Act and EPA proposed regulations on air pollutants, and did not address carbon dioxide, the most abundant heat trapping greenhouse gas leading to global warming.

California traditionally has had special authority under the Clean Air Act to set limits on air pollutants that are tougher than federal standards.

Not exact matches

Most air purifiers on the market claim to filter out allergens, pollutants, smoke, and even household odors.

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.

Kyoto focuses primarily on reducing CO2, a relatively harmless gas, and does nothing to control real air pollution like NOx, SO2, and particulates, or serious pollutants in water and soil.

The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

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).

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

Think again, the food and agriculture nonprofit, Cornucopia Institute, found that most non-organic veggie burgers currently on the market are made with the chemical hexane, an EPA - registered air pollutant and neurotoxin.

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.»

An asthmatic attack can be brought on by allergens, such as pollens, mold spores, and animal danders; airway pollutants (including cigarette smoke and paint fumes); viral respiratory infections; and occasionally exercise or inhaling cold air.

There are a vast range of air pollutants, which cause a variety of effects on the environment and health.

«Initially, I looked at the effect of air pollutants on crops, but when I came to the U.K., work was being done on drought at Lancaster,» says Dodd, 39.

The impact of rapid increases in air pollutants on heart health may be at least as important as absolute concentrations.»

An international team of researchers analyzed economic and environmental data from 2000 to 2009 and found that production of goods for export in 2006 alone accounted for between one - fifth and one - third of China's air pollution, depending on the pollutant.

Nor is it just our eating habits that expose us to these pollutants — we pick up tiny doses from cosmetics and paper, from the cushions and fabrics we sit on, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

After the Donora tragedy, the federal government began to clamp down on industries that release pollutants into the air.

But monitoring by the London Air project from King's College, London, showed that the rules had been breached by 9 pm on Thursday for the pollutant, which is linked to heart and lung problems and even early deaths.

The artificial system is used to observe the effects of air pollutants on cells in the upper airway.

We know that trees remove the air pollutants which can bring on asthma attacks, but in some situations they can also cause localised build - ups of particulates by preventing their dispersion by wind.

A study published in January in Environmental Health Perspectives reported that daily deaths over a decade in metropolitan Boston peaked on days when concentrations of three common air pollutants were at their highest, even though those levels would currently satisfy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Human nasal epithelial cells, cultured on a microchip, react to air pollutants just like they would in the upper airway.

In Colorado, the ATSDR sampled air for pollutants at 14 sites for a 2008 report, including on Susan Wallace - Babb's property.

«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.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteair pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteAir Act as industry groups and some states contend.

Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter air pollution, about 12 percent were related to pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.

The results estimate that lifelong exposure to 100 micrograms of «total suspended particulates,» or TSPs, (minuscule solid particles floating in the air, such as pollutants) per meter of air cubed will shorten a person's life by three years, on average.

The report is based on the JRC's Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and aerosols.

«Even without the catalytic mufflers, there are much lower emissions of air pollutants that can have adverse effects on human health and promote the formation of smog.»

The result: The air, as measured by a class of fine particulate pollutants at those locations and based on an annual average, fell within federal cleanliness guidelines.

Kaplan's team also found that in Montreal and Edmonton, emergency room visits for abdominal pain without a known cause were slightly higher among 15 - to 24 - year olds on days when levels of certain air pollutants were elevated.

The researchers hope an added bonus could be understanding how pollutants are transported and transformed as air is pushed along the tropics, which could have a direct effect on people living downwind of major air pollution sources.

Senator Tom Carper (DE), top Democrat on the panel, cited an interview in which Hartnett White suggested that low - level ozone, an air pollutant, wasn't harmful unless «you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for 8 hours every day.»

Singapore can then impose fines of up to S$ 100,000 ($ 80,000) per day of smoke, up to a maximum of S$ 2 million, on companies or individuals that are found to cause Singapore's air pollutant standards index to rise to the «unhealthy» level.

I am happy that we succeeded in providing a quantitative estimate of the effect of air pollutant on surface solar radiation in interaction with wind,» says Changgui Lin, the leading author of the article and researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

Renault, the French car - maker, last month removed its cars from a parking site at the French port of Le Havre after a mysterious air pollutant damaged paint on a few hundred vehicles.

By including the two most important air pollutants in the analysis, the new study «gives policy makers and local air quality managers a much better picture of what is going on.»

Naomi Shah's studies on common indoor air pollutants» effects on asthma patients got her the award for the 15 - to 16 - year - old group.

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The state - of - the - art measuring methods used in this study and the results obtained are, according to the researchers, another important step in the research of air pollutants and their impact on health.

The release of these pollutants is mainly due to the unregulated or inefficient production and use of energy, the IEA said in a special report on energy and air pollution.

The U.S. EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercuAir Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercuair pollutants, including mercury.

Environmental lawyers will point to other power plant regulations on mercury and hazardous air pollutants that also impacted plants» relative competitiveness as evidence that the Clean Power Plan was well within the norm.

The evidence is pretty compelling that something is going on with air pollution and autism,» says Kalkbrenner, who adds that further study is needed to determine the neurodevelopmental impacts of specific chemical pollutants during precise developmental windows.