Sentences with phrase «on smog»

He said pollution is a «major problem» and he wants the government to ««declare war» on smog by removing high - emission cars from the road and closing coal - fired furnaces.

Public worries about greenhouse gases might lead to government regulations, following the example of restrictions on smog and spray - can chemicals.

The Sierra Club's Washington representative on smog pollution, Terry McGuire, believes: «The Administration is emboldened to do that.»

China's biggest cities are choking on smog and air pollution emitted by nearby coal plants, and residents are fed up....

The state is pursuing a claim that it violates state limits on smog - forming chemicals in consumer products, with a hearing scheduled for next month.

Not exact matches

On high - smog days in Kraków, Poland, the city's air pollution can reach six times that of safe levels.

American environmental protection has always focused on pollution, particularly Southern California smog — precisely what the NOx emissions from diesels exacerbate.

In fact, everywhere in Havana, even on the famed Malecón strip, which abuts the Atlantic, the choking smog makes New York's West Side highway seem like a wildflower preserve.

Prices have turned wildly volatile in recent weeks on fears of shortages as Beijing embarks on its biggest environmental crackdown yet to reduce the country's notorious winter smog.

Ask a Canadian what's going on over in China these days, there's a good chance they'll cite the country's off - the - charts smog.

Living in a car - filled city isn't easy - traffic jams, smog, hectic crossroads, and so on.

There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as national caps for industrial emissions commonly associated with smog and acid rain.

The move comes as car makers and investors are pumping in billions of dollars into the so - called new energy vehicle sector in China, the world's biggest auto market, which is preparing to roll out tough norms to promote the sector to fight urban smog and cut dependence on imported oil.

In 1995 he purchased the Los Angeles International Airport when LAX moved to its current home on landfill five miles off the coast (downwind from the 2,000 - foot smog fans) One year later, faith projections were seeing reality in the present 52,000 - seat sanctuary known colloquially as «the Dudedome.»

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

During his game, in the heat and the smog, Charlesworth leaned on his stick and then squatted to capture a moment's breath whenever the action paused.

China still runs on coal, but has a pressing reason for wanting out: smog is now too big a health problem to ignore.

She is currently involved in two new studies — one probing the effects of air pollution and the other examining the synergistic effects of smog and diet on respiratory well - being.

SMOG FOG By blocking sunlight and dirtying solar panels, air pollution — as in this image of Shanghai on October 12, 2015 — can hamper the production of solar energy.

The Study: «The Sequestration of Ethane on Titan in Smog Particles» by Donald M. Hunten, published in the journal Nature.

The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere, into a stew of organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.

Living for a couple of years on a houseboat off the smog - laden Newark, N.J., shore didn't help.

Tools developed in the 1990s to swap money among Cassini's scientific instrument teams went on to run emissions trading to reduce smog in southern California.

He urged «an overall morphological attack on the problem of smog» in Los Angeles, including a tax on single - passenger cars.

Standing on Titan, you would see a dense orange haze similar to a really bad smog day in Los Angeles.

A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

Chinese authorities have told pilots who fly to Beijing they must be qualified to land their aircraft in the low visibility bought about by smog, state media said on Thursday, as the government tries to reduce flight delays due to pollution.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

By factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smog.

If the aerosols had been keeping a lid on warming, cleaning up smog could have produced a dangerous surge in warming.

«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.»

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.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

Concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide, highway barriers that break down smog, and paint that eliminates odors in the room where it is used are just a few of the products that these researchers are working on.

On average, nearly four Central Valley residents die prematurely every day because of the pollution, and experts predict that within the next few years, as temperatures continue to rise and population growth raises smog levels, one of every four children will have asthma.

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

Hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled on Friday in China's commercial hub of Shanghai as record levels of air pollution shrouded the city in smog, prompting authorities to issue the highest level of health warning.

Beijing suffered its own smog emergency last winter when the PM2.5 surpassed 900 on one particularly bad day in January.

The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter.

'' [D] epending on where you are, coal mine methane can lead to local problems with ozone smog,» Banks said.»

Given the right battery, smog - belching cars and trucks could be replaced with vehicles that run whisper - quiet on electricity alone.

This week, without fanfare, it also started tweeting hourly data on ground - level ozone, the prime component of smog.

These include its impact on reducing smog and acid rain components and mercury emissions, with their threat to wildlife and the food chain.

As heat waves appear to be on the rise due to global climate change, smog in the eastern U.S. is likely to worsen, according to the study.

There were no bodies on the streets when the great London smog of December 1952 engulfed the capital.

The total ban on traffic was intended as much to alert Romans to the problem as to stop yet another mid-winter smog.

But the remarkably still air on Mount Wilson — the same climatic condition that keeps LA choked in smog — promises some of the world's sharpest images of the Sun, nearby bright stars, and any planets found orbiting them.

This was the scene in the Piazza Venezia in Rome last week when the local authorities imposed a traffic ban on Monday between 3.30 pm and 7 pm in an effort to combat smog.

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

«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.