Sentences with phrase «on air quality issues»

In particular, as a fellow from 1998 - 2000, he organized and attended meetings, helped write parts of agency documents, and gave science and policy advice on air quality issues and on international activities of the EPA.

He is presently representing residents around Kennedy Airport who are suing the Port Authority on air quality issues, due to the high incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases in the area.

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on 17 July 2007 - setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved; introducing new policy framework for tackling fine particles and identifying potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the Strategy's objectives.

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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.

While the air quality is a major concern, other members against FreshDirect see the issue on a socioeconomic scale as to why they building in the Bronx.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

Negative media reports from rural communities in northeastern Pennsylvania, New York City's opposition to drilling through its major aquifer, and air quality issues in Texas put the gas industry on the defensive.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

He said formal collaboration on environmental issues in the region dates back at least as far as 1983, during the Reagan administration, when bilateral cooperation was called on to assure healthy air quality, develop appropriate management of hazardous and other waste, and control water - borne pathogens.

The United States places 27th in the 2018 EPI, with strong scores on some issues, such as sanitation and air quality, but weak performance on others, including deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

The air quality issues in the EPA are almost all focused on ozone.

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The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements on their websites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.

On top of the reduced fuel costs and improved air quality issues compared to...

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

He is, of course, partially right — sand from the Sahara is currently blowing over to Britain, exacerbating London's already problematic air quality issues — but that sand is only adding to pollution which is already harming and even killing Londoners on a daily basis.

A review in issue six of Passive House Plus looked at the evidence on air quality in naturally ventilated homes, and came to the depressing conclusion that the long standing British and Irish norm of holes in the walls or trickle vents in the windows and intermittent extract fans in kitchens and bathrooms, was not resulting in good indoor air quality (IAQ).

We have launched the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.

The possibility to participate, shape and share a common future on issues such as air quality, weather, natural resources and energy security is one that shouldn't be overlooked by the debate on our membership of the European Union.

In recognition of both the gravity of the issue and the importance of the energy sector in its resolution, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to publish its first special report on the role of the energy sector in air quality around the world.

During her five - year tenure Zichal, who coordinated the work of multiple agencies on issues ranging from air quality to global warming, played...

The UCS report charged the administration with suppressing research on global warming, air quality, sexual health, cancer and other issues.

understand the issues of IAQ (indoor air quality), VOCSs (volatile organic compounds), EMFs, (electromagnetic fields), whilst being aware of building attributes that impact on asthma, hay fever, allergies, etc. 5.

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The Agency's premier resource on this issue is the Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools kit.