Sentences with phrase «ozone pollution limits»

According to Johns Hopkins scientists up to nearly 8000 lives would have been saved annually if President Obama backed the EPA's strongest recommendations for ozone pollution limits.

Not exact matches

«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.

However, limited and scattered ozone datasets left scientists unable to answer basic questions about the distribution and trends in ozone pollution in many parts of the world: In which regions of the world do people face the greatest ozone exposure?

They identified 10 environmental limits we might not want to transgress in the Anthropocene: aerosol pollution; biodiversity loss; chemical pollution; climate change; freshwater use; changes in land use (forests to fields, for example); nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; ocean acidity; and the ozone hole.

This shift, coupled with limited ozone monitoring in most developing nations, has left a number of fundamental outstanding questions: Which regions of the world have the greatest human and plant exposure to ozone pollution?

The new regulations, out for proposed comment, would limit ozone pollution to between 65 and -LSB-...]

But his administration has also vowed to scale back an EPA rule to limit ground - level ozone pollution, as well as an Interior Department rule to protect streams from coal - mining waste.

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.»

At its worst it can help create seven more days a year when ozone levels exceed air pollution limits.

We can't possibly limit the amount of toxic mercury industrial plants spew out, or the ozone pollution.

The planetary boundaries hypothesis, first introduced by a group of leading earth scientists in a 2009 article in Nature, posits that there are nine global, biophysical limits to human welfare: climate change, ocean acidification, the ozone layer, nitrogen and phosphate levels, land use change (the conversion of wilderness to human landscapes like farmland or cities), biodiversity loss, chemical pollutants, and particulate pollution in the atmosphere.