Sentences with phrase «other air pollutant emissions»

The Long - range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP)- Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) is an integrated planning tool to help governments jointly assess greenhouse gases, short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and other air pollutant emissions; build mitigation scenarios; and understand how emission reductions benefit climate, health and crops.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

In response to these cases and others, state and county health officials conducted a series of monitoring projects that found that gas drilling was the area's largest source of several hazardous air pollutants, including benzene and ozone - forming emissions.

Satellite images and atmospheric models such as these have helped Jaffe demonstrate how mercury and other emissions from China feed into a complex network of air currents that distribute pollutants across the globe.

Tall smokestacks, built to alleviate pollution close to power plants, may contribute to the regional air problem by causing emissions to stay suspended long enough to react and produce other, more harmful pollutants.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Surprisingly we come into contact with heavy metals in everyday life — through the air we breathe (think vehicle emissions and other environmental pollutants), in the food we eat (non-organic foods that have been treated with pesticides and herbicides), if you have dental fillings made from mercury - containing amalgam, and certain types of large fish (such as king mackerel, swordfish, orange roughy, marlin, tuna steaks, and canned «white» albacore).

The EPA has found that the defeat devices allowed real - world emissions for nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that's been linked to asthma and other respiratory problems, to reach as high as 40 times the legal limit under the Clean Air Act.

The air - fuel mix is consequently optimized and this reduces fuel consumption, while also minimizing the emission of CO2 and other pollutants (nitrogen oxides and particulates) at all engine speeds.

The standards we recommend in this report would also significantly reduce emissions of other air pollutants, specifically smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic pollutants like benzene that cause cancer and are associated with a host of other health problems.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

Given those two factors and ignoring future emissions that will drive the temperature even higher, we are already over +2 C warming once we stop emitting short - lived coal smoke and other pollutants into the air and we give the Earth time to reach temperature equilibrium.

In addition, the increased use of fossil fuels to provide extra electricity for air conditioners also increases emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

Because they come packaged with other dangerous air pollutants, it turns out that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is just as good for our body as it is for our planet.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

Under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the responsibility and authority to set and enforce emissions limits for pollutants deemed harmful to human health and the environment.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) request information from owners / operators of coal - fired electric generation facilities about hazardous air pollutants other than mercury; and (2) propose and promulgate emission standards.

Climate change and air pollution are closely interlinked because emissions of air pollutants and climate - altering greenhouse gases and other pollutants arise largely from humanity's use of fossil fuels and biomass fuels, with additional contributions from agriculture and land - use change.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

A set of 12 sectors was agreed on as a common reporting format for all air pollutants: air transportation; international shipping; other transportation (surface transport); electric power plants, energy conversion, extraction and distribution; solvents; waste (landfill, waste water, non-energy incineration); industry (combustion and process emissions); domestic (residential and commercial buildings); agricultural waste burning on fields; agriculture (agricultural soil emissions, other agriculture); savannah burning; and forest burning.

A new study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates heavy fuel oil (HFO) use, HFO carriage, the use and carriage of other fuels, black carbon (BC) emissions, and emissions of other air and climate pollutants for the year 2015, with projections to 2020 and 2025.

What the EPA does not communicate clearly to the public, however, is that none of these health benefits come from decreasing carbon dioxide emissions to avoid global warming, but from coincidental benefits (or «co-benefits») from reducing other air pollutants which the EPA already heavily regulates.

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil, and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate - altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.

This is because HF has unleashed vast supplies of clean, affordable gas, and this in turn has allowed natural gas to produce much more of America's electricity — with natural gas emitting half the carbon emissions as other sources and virtually no hazardous air pollutants.

The Myth Of Killer Mercury — The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued 946 pages of new rules requiring that U.S. power plants sharply reduce their (already low) emissions of mercury and other air pollutants.

Examples of actions with co-benefits include (i) improved energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources, leading to reduced emissions of health - damaging climate - altering air pollutants; (ii) reduced energy and water consumption in urban areas through greening cities and recycling water; (iii) sustainable agriculture and forestry; and (iv) protection of ecosystems for carbon storage and other ecosystem services.»

Unlike other air pollutants, CO2 is an intended and necessary product of combustion, which means that CO2 emissions can not be «reduced» in the same way that SO2 can, for example, by eliminating impurities or scrubbing flue gas at power plants; rather, reducing emissions will likely require efficiency improvements or some method of CO2 capture for storage or reuse.

Greater natural gas production and use also lowers emissions of other air pollutants, such as mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

«It also should be recognized that anthropogenic emis - sions of air pollutants of direct health concern are, in many cases, associated with concurrent emission of pol - lutants that have important impacts on global climate (e.g., carbon dioxide, black carbon, sulfur dioxide, and others).»

That's because the new Clean Air Act rules won't just cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, but they'll cut down on other harmful pollutants as well — and save millions of lives in the long term.

Mr. Ketzback's CAA practice routinely involves counseling, permitting and litigation matters relating to the New Source Review (NSR), New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs or MACT) and other complex CAA programs.