Sentences with phrase «on ozone pollution»

When these costs are added to health costs to individuals, the benefits of the EPA's upcoming Clean Air Transport Rule, which would put tighter limits on ozone pollution, «exceed compliance costs by about 100 times.»

A good story on ozone pollution along Colorado's Front Range and the link to oil and gas industry emissions on Colorado Public Radio.

This finding suggests a source of potential economic benefits from strengthening regulations on ozone pollution; these benefits of course need to be compared with other costs and benefits.

To examine the impacts of climate change on ozone pollution, Pfister and her colleagues looked at two scenarios.

Not exact matches

By the late 1980s it became clear that global atmospheric pollution causing both the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer had become critical threats to life on earth (Henderson - Sellers & Blong 1989).

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

«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.

Brock LeBaron, deputy director of Utah's Division of Air Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near future.

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.

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challengOn July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challengon grounds similar to the methane challenge.

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 newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

«Ozone and nitric oxide are both contributors to urban smog, so depending on how well a city is able to mitigate air pollution, ethanol may not be the «green fuel» that it is often called,» said Geiger, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The study finds that titanium dioxide coatings, seen as promising for their role in breaking down airborne pollutants on contact, are likely in real - world conditions to convert abundant ammonia to nitrogen oxide, the key precursor of harmful ozone pollution.

The study on pollution showed that ozone, which tends to form on hotter days, changes the risk profile of heat stress.

Also, the researchers referred to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality System which monitors air pollution levels at different sites across the US, and levels of ozone and fine particulate matter on a given day.

Ozone was recorded at 160 micrograms per cubic metre, a level considered moderate - to - high on the UK's pollution index and almost twice as high as Aberdeen, which had the UK's worst ozone levels at time of wriOzone was recorded at 160 micrograms per cubic metre, a level considered moderate - to - high on the UK's pollution index and almost twice as high as Aberdeen, which had the UK's worst ozone levels at time of wriozone levels at time of writing.

China and South Asia, on the other hand, will see the most ozone - related damage to wheat, rice and soybean crops because of the chronically high levels of toxic air pollution.

North of Los Angeles, the area also has the second - highest level of ozone pollution in the U.S. Mountains surround the valley on three sides, creating inversion layers that trap pollution, with little wind to carry it away.

It also found evidence that NASA headquarters press officials canceled a press conference on a mission monitoring ozone pollution and global warming because it was too close to the 2004 presidential election.»

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

For many decades, the symptoms of unsustainable human exploitation of the natural environment have been mounting: species extinction, the loss of biodiversity, air and water pollution, soil erosion, acid rain, destruction of rainforests, ozone depletion - the list goes on.»

The paper estimates that growing trees on 72 million hectares of land in Europe could result in 1,400 premature deaths on the continent annually at a cost of $ 7.1 B. Currently, 22,000 people are estimated to die prematurely from ozone pollution in Europe every year.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

In the analysis, Dr. Hansen and his colleagues culled data and scientific papers on topics from rice production, which releases methane, to urban pollution, a source of ozone and sooty particles, to obtain detailed estimates of the rate of change in different greenhouse emissions.

Desert Mirage High School student, testifying during an EPA hearing on setting a more protective ozone pollution standard.

The Senate GOP isn't far behind: In 2015, they floated a bill to cut the EPA's budget by 9 percent and block rules on everything from ground - level ozone pollution to climate change.

The Convention on Long - range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Convention) under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is the only international instrument dealing with air pollution, and the Gothenburg Protocol to the LRTAP Convention is the first formal agreement to include SLCPs, namely black carbon and ozone.

He seemed to be taking a sensibly optimistic attitude towards environmental problems, pointing to our successes in fixing up pollution problems, the ozone layer and so on, rather than focusing on doomsday scenarios.

But this new finding shows that this pollution actually adds to ozone on the ground here in the States.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

It has been suggested that a top - down allocation approach is more appropriate for boundaries where human activities exert a direct impact on the Earth (that is, climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion and chemical pollution), while a multiscale approach is more appropriate for boundaries that are spatially heterogeneous (that is biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land - system change, biodiversity loss and aerosol loading).8 Even with a top - down approach and a single global boundary, however, allocation is fraught with difficult ethical issues.

I am working on another article that has more detail from published article about the increase in ozone pollution from ethanol mixed gasoline.

That is the sum Cal State Fullerton's Jane Hall believes pollution is costing the Golden State on an annual basis, according to the LAT's Louis Sahagun: the result of over 3,800 premature deaths and illnesses associated with high levels of particulates and ozone.

Given China's growing number of cars, along with other pollution sources — and Coke's growing market share in China, bolstered by its offer this week to buy Huiyuan, the country's largest juice maker — the machines couldn't come at a better time for the environment.How it happened Refrigerators used to rely on CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for cooling — until it was discovered they were boring a hole in the ozone layer.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

On November 16, 2015, EPA proposed an update to the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to address interstate transport of air pollution under the 2008 ozone NAAQS.