Sentences with phrase «ozone pollution standards»

«Bringing ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at - risk,» McCarthy insisted in a statement last week.

Desert Mirage High School student, testifying during an EPA hearing on setting a more protective ozone pollution standard.

Not exact matches

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

Although ozone pollution is dropping across many parts of the United States, western Europe and Japan, many people living in those countries still experience more than a dozen days every year in which levels of the lung irritant exceed health - based standards.

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challenge.

Both the Park Service and EPA's science advisers have called for a strong separate standard to protect our forests from ozone pollution.»

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

The agency has blown past several deadlines in setting new standards for ozone pollution.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

The EPA says ozone standards that have required scrubbers and other pollution - control equipment have yielded dramatic results, helping to slash average ozone levels 33 percent from 1980 to 2013.

Older coal plants will continue to be hamstrung by the cost of complying with non-climate pollution rules (such as the ozone air quality standards), plus the perhaps even lower price of natural gas.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

Clean Power Plan; Waters of the United States Rule; The 2015 ozone air pollution standards.