Sentences with phrase «on air pollution from»

88 % of Democrats, 85 % of Independents, and 58 % of Republicans oppose Congress stopping the EPA from enacting new limits on air pollution from electric power plants.

By three to one (75 %) the public believes that the EPA, not Congress, should determine whether stricter limits are needed on air pollution from electric power plants.

A team including Brian McDonald and Jessica Gilman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Colorado examined data on air pollution from the US and Europe.

Easing traffic congestion in this way would not simply reduce commuting stress, but it would also cut down on air pollution from idling cars.

It essentially makes every lane a high - speed E-Z pass lane, letting people get through faster and cutting down on air pollution from idling cars.

Not exact matches

The statement from the University of Washington said the initiative will focus on combating diseases and health disparities and healing the environment, with the understanding that factors such as air pollution contribute to illnesses.

The current Wikipedia entry on air pollution, for example, now asserts that pollution includes: «carbon dioxide (CO2)-- a colorless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration.»

Meanwhile Government launched a consultation on its Clean Air Zone framework last Thursday which looks to help local authorities reduce pollution from vehicles in city centres.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal 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.

Instead it is fed by real - time data on anything from water levels in rivers to traffic jams or air pollution.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, from Ithaca College, says the compilation of results and on going research created by the group shows numerous potential dangers, including everything from worsening air pollution and water contamination to potential earthquakes and increased crime due to the boom in the gas extraction business.

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.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

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.

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.

Some researchers have pinned the blame on indoor air pollution and a study last year showed that when outdoor ozone levels rose, the number of people inside suffering from so - called «sick building syndrome» also increased.

Bellettiere says the team will follow up on its marijuana findings to find out whether the elevated air pollution that results from smoking marijuana translates into increased exposure to combustion byproducts and cannabinoids in nonsmokers living in the house.

When it's not horrific mining accidents like the one in Soma, Turkey, on May 13 that killed more than 300 miners, it's the 13,000 Americans who die early each year because of air pollution from burning the dirtiest fossil fuel.

Air pollution from mineral processing was an enormous issue; the search was on for ways to manage and reduce the associated risks.

Off the record, one of the government's own advisers on air pollution will tell you he has estimated that the deaths of 3000 people a year in England and Wales can be laid at the door of emissions from diesel lorries, cars and buses.

The position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease was written by experts from the European Society of Cardiology and also recommends decreasing the use of fossil fuels.

Moms Clean Air Force zeroes in on lawmakers at all levels of government, bringing personal stories of pollution's impact — from children suffering because of asthma to lead poisoning.

«We don't think that air pollution from diesel vehicles is the main reason for this decline, but our latest work suggests that it may have a worse effect on the flower odours needed by bees than we initially thought.

Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed in hazy toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of air pollution in California.

To do that, they used a set of equations — recently updated based on the most recent epidemiological research — describing how exposure to air pollution affects a person's risk of dying from various diseases.

There, she met a team of physicians connected with the Children's Environmental Health Center at the University of Southern California who were conducting a long - term study on the link between chronic exposure to air pollution from freeway traffic and respiratory illnesses.

«In the years to come, we're going to have major increases in all types of chronic illnesses,» he continued, ticking them off on his fingers, «in respiratory illnesses, in heart disease, in increases in heart attacks and strokes because air pollution increases blood clotting, and in its effects on developing fetuses — there is so much fallout from air pollution.

Concerns about the heavy levels of air pollution from some Asian cities are sufficient that Simonich is doing monitoring on Oregon's Mount Bachelor, a 9,065 - foot mountain in the central Oregon Cascade Range.

«It's important,» he says, «because actions taken to improve air quality, and to improve public health, have to focus on [controlling emissions from] major sources of air pollution.»

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.

But trading allows the market to work its efficient magic on the reduction of air pollution, from Hochschild's and Evolution's perspectives — and that remains the national negotiating position of the United States: Companies that can make reductions do so because they have a financial incentive.

This issue is worst in the winter, when — according to research from Princeton University — air pollution in these regions blocks about 20 percent of sunlight from reaching solar panel arrays, on average.

LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle around cities offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said on Wednesday.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

The data on pollution of the northeast Atlantic, which includes the North Sea and the Irish Sea, do not include fallout into the oceans from air pollution, which some scientists believe may be as great as waterborne pollution.

«Here, we have solid numbers on how many people die from air pollution and what fraction of that is due to coal - powered plants in each state.»

Dr Anna Hansell, lead author of the study, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial, said: «Air pollution has well established impacts on health, especially on heart and lung disease.

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.

Smith, the senior Republican on the House of Representatives science committee, issued a controversial subpoena to EPA on 1 August for all the raw data from a number of federally funded studies linking air pollution to disease.

Instead, in a chart on page 26 of the report on «expected fatalities per year, worldwide, from a variety of causes,» asteroids are compared with shark attacks (three to seven deaths), firearms accidents (2,500), earthquakes (36,000), malaria (one million), traffic accidents (1.2 million), air pollution (two million), HIV / AIDS (2.1 million) and tobacco (five million).

LONDON (Reuters)- Premature deaths from air pollution will continue to rise to 2040 unless changes are made to the way the world uses and produces energy, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.

Of course, buses that burn natural gas do cut down on soot and other forms of air pollution, reducing known deaths from inhaling such small particles.

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

Her research team focused on exposure to coarse and fine particulate matter, known as PM10, which arises in part from traffic - related air pollution.

Prior to joining the Center, she worked at the Coalition for Clean Air on campaigns to reduce toxic air pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of CalifornAir on campaigns to reduce toxic air pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of Californair pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of California.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.