Sentences with phrase «other air pollution»

For a handful of states that rely heavily on electricity from aging coal plants and aren't compelled to close them under other air pollution rules, this will buy them a few years.

To be sure, like other air pollution control rules, it requires somewhat more than the marketplace will deliver on its own.

Other air pollution varies by plant, and the effect of that pollution varies with location and weather.

That said, we pay to reduce greenhouse gases and other air pollution with higher energy bills, even if these reductions save us money, and transitions will be complicated.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

They also avoided spewing soot and other air pollution like coal - fired power plants do and thus have saved some 1.8 million lives.

«It also perhaps locates [other air pollution] emissions in a place where impacts might not be as harmful as where cars are driven today.»

Meanwhile, this week EPA also responded to a separate request for data related to other air pollution studies from Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

It's a common scenario in cities nationwide: Due to high housing costs and historical discrimination, low - income and minority neighborhoods are clustered around industrial sites, truck routes, ports and other air pollution hotspots.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

The above image was captured by a NASA satellite last week and shows large parts of South East Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore) covered in a brown haze of soot and other air pollution derived from Indonesian forest fires, which has now also reached Thailand.

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

The alternative that Kareiva prefers is what he calls an «Earth genome project» — a compilation of data that gets down to the local level on water use, soil degradation and, yes, greenhouse gas and other air pollution.

On a sprawling roof that covers most of a city block a kind of park has been laid, sucking up carbon dioxide and other air pollution, filtering rainfall, making it less acidic.

Our respiratory system is under constant attack from smoking, passive smoking and other air pollution, and if our bodies struggle to cope this can cause problems like spots, puffiness or broken capillaries on the cheeks.

Exposure to cigarette smoke or other air pollution may worsen tracheal collapse.

He combined data on greenhouse gases and other air pollution and mapped out who lived next to the dirtiest industries in the state, arriving at what he called the «pollution disparity index.»

We also don't charge for a large number of other externalities (adverse health effects; other air pollution, etc.) A thoughtfully designed user fee system encourages the behaviors we want more of.

Brad Plumer: Coal would take the biggest hit under this climate rule — as well as all the other air pollution rules EPA has put out.

First, we have seen a major shift away from coal to natural gas, which dramatically cuts CO2 emissions (natural gas releases half the CO2 of coal to generate the same amount of electricity) and other air pollution.