Sentences with phrase «other air toxics»

Monitoring at schools has shown elevated levels of benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and other air toxics during the afternoon hour coinciding with parents picking up their children.

Romney opposes EPA's new regulations requiring cuts in mercury and other air toxics from coal - fired power plants, alleging alongside other Republicans that they are too aggressive and will harm the economy.

Requires source control and emission controls to prevent emissions of heavy metals, acid gases, dioxins and other air toxics

Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants (or electric generating units, EGUs).

The Hill reports, «Republican lawmakers are planning an all - out assault on Obama's environmental agenda, including rules on mercury and other air toxics from power plants, limits on ground - level ozone that causes smog, mountaintop mining restrictions and the EPA's attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over streams and ponds.»

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Get rid of chemical cleaners, air fresheners, and other products that are toxic to your baby.

Clark and other members of Richmond's growing environmental movement tackled a series of local issues during the 1990s, winning reductions of toxic air emissions and discharges to San Francisco Bay and setting up a warning system for residents during refinery accidents.

Some compounds, including more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, may volatilize back into the air, while others accumulate in the snow and are released with meltwater.

Called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, the stringent new regulations limit not only mercury but also acid gases like hydrochloric acid, heavy metals like arsenic, and other toxic pollutants — and require companies to comply by 2017.

After seeing the regional effects in this new study, she agrees that the toxic element likely comes from outside the U.S. «We see for other types of pollutants that [the Rocky Mountain region] tends to be more influenced by nonlocal sources because of its higher elevation — it has access to the free tropospheric air,» she says.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

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.

Whenever toxic chemicals are sprayed into the air to cover up bathroom odors and other stinky stuff, those particles eventually land on our skin, on the floor, on the surfaces we touch.

In order to ensure that your health is not compromised, an integrated approach which includes nutritional counseling, special air filters, a special oxygenated water system, negative ion generators, oxygen masks and rubber dams is used for mercury removal and other toxic metals.

Whether you have extra hormones, toxic heavy metals from air pollution, extra lipids or other particles in your bloodstream that aren't supposed to be there, the skin is a good place for your brilliant bloodstream to deliver them so that they aren't floating around causing other problems.

The only other touch of color is rather subtle: The inner portion of the air - conditioning outlets is beryllium - colored, though obviously not made from the actual metal, which is incredibly toxic.

By dramatically inflating the nominal prices of various «assets», including those that are now called «toxic assets», many of which were substantially created out of thin air, such as various derivatives, the banks, various financial institutions, and other holders of these assets, have essentially laid claims to a much larger proportion of the existing real wealth.

Reducing indoor air pollution, home and yard chemicals, and other sources of toxic exposure.

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.

Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution, toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of other environmental issues.

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.

However, many states are making progress toward Clean Power Plan targets as they work to comply with other environmental mandates, such as the Regional Haze Rule, the new ozone air quality standard, and new rules regarding toxic wastewater from power plants.

Next week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize new rules to reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions that will affect dozens of antiquated power plants currently operating without pollution controls.

Pastor, M., R. Morello - Frosch, and J. L. Sadd, 2005: The air is always cleaner on the other side: Race, space, and ambient air toxics exposures in California.

In the midst of attacks from Congress on virtually all things environmental, EPA has announced a rule to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollution.

All other EPA regulations, such as the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards and the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, are built into the reference case.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

He has put a hold on vital safeguards that would limit the amount of mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxic chemicals that industry can spew into the air or dump into our rivers.

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You can protect other communities from toxic air pollution by joining Destiny and to demand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop subsidizing trash - burning incinerators.

Given the sheer amount of hazardous and toxic substances released to air, water, and land over such a large area along the Texas coast, it is reasonable to expect that ExxonMobil, along with other oil and gas companies affected by Harvey, will be named as defendants in a class - action suit for failing to take proper precautions to prevent these releases.

Some of the air pollution, which includes mercury, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and various particles, is toxic to people and other animals;

This has certainly been the pattern in EPA rulemakings in other arenas, such as ozone standards and air toxics.

The plants are 100 years old, emit mercury, soot, and sulfur dioxide, among other toxic pollutants, and are exempt from some Clean Air Act limits.

Such restrictions could affect how the agency protects Americans from toxic chemicals, air pollution and other health risks.»

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Whether the alleged exposure involves air, water, soil or groundwater, when a plaintiff or group of plaintiffs brings an environmental exposure claim, an experienced California toxic lawyer at our firm will launch a thorough investigation to determine whether an exposure actually occurred and, if so, the extent to which the exposure may have caused the illness or other harms alleged by the plaintiffs.

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Outdoor air pollution — that toxic mix of particulate matter, biological materials, and chemicals that react with each other in the air is a big public health issue around the globe.

Any listing agent will not just impress his seller, help de-stagnate household listing air: smoke, fragrances from air fresheners that are full of maybe killer chemicals that infiltrate the other airbournes, perhaps making a toxic stew of sorts, but will absolutely impress would be buyers who will perhaps choose this property, preferred over others, and they sometimes can't even put their fingers on the exact reason for their choice.

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