Sentences with phrase «plants as air pollution»

A daring treetop experiment is yielding key insights into the fate of sensitive rainforest plants as air pollution rises.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

As an example, again, before I started as an employee, NET's partner Clear The Air developed an online power plant pollution locator as a Flash applicatioAs an example, again, before I started as an employee, NET's partner Clear The Air developed an online power plant pollution locator as a Flash applicatioas an employee, NET's partner Clear The Air developed an online power plant pollution locator as a Flash applicatioas a Flash application.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises from power plants, industries, vehicles and other sources of fuel burning.

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as they weighed the lawfulness of a federal regulation limiting air pollution that crosses state lines, mostly emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) points to mobile sources (trains, planes and automobiles) as the greatest contributor to American air pollution, but industrial sources such as power plants and factories are not far behind.

But the courts haven't always struck down EPA emissions trading programs — such as the trading program for nitrogen oxides — and when they have disqualified programs, it was either because agencies failed to follow proper procedure (as was the case with a Bush - era mercury rule that eased requirements on power plants) or because specific statutory goals were not followed (as was the case in the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which wouldn't have necessarily reduced all interstate pollution).

Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.

When the entire world is suffering from the fiend of pollution, it is advisable to plant Tulsi (Holy Basil), Neem, Goose Berry (Amla), Banyan (Bargad) and Pipal trees etc., as these herbs and trees exhale oxygen for almost 24 hours and rectify the quality of air by absorbing the side effects of smog due to pollution.

Furthermore, trees and bushes planted near schools can be a cause of natural air pollution themselves, such as pollen and ozone.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

They have classified carbon dioxide (CO2) in our air as pollution, How can you call a vital gas in our air pollution when it is as important for the wellfare of our plant life as oxygen is for animal life?

The Fraser Institute found that air pollution levels decreased slightly as a result of shutting down the coal plants in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but not enough to warrant the expense.

While planting trees for bioenergy would no doubt lead to an uptick in ozone pollution, it should be noted that burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — is generally seen as a larger and graver contributor to air pollution than tree plantations.

Dust — Pollen Viruses and Bacteria Air pollution sources and effects Source type refers to natural and anthropogenic sources as well as to additional sub classifications within / sunlight available to green, water plants.

These plants create air pollution on our sparsely populated reservation that rivals big cities such as Denver, CO..

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been doing its job, as required by the Clean Air Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqAir Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqair pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.»

PS I agree that there need to be regulations prohibiting air pollution (i.e. ejecting substances into the atmosphere that are toxic to humans, animals or plants or are known to cause health problems), as requested by a democratically elected legislature or executive branch and their appointed agencies, but that is not «owning» the atmosphere IMO — it is simply «protecting» it, as an asset that is «owned» by everyone collectively.

As Houston's mayor, White opposed the eight proposed units as a member of the Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition, which was formed by then - Dallas Mayor Laura Miller in August 2006 to challenge coal - fired power plant pollutioAs Houston's mayor, White opposed the eight proposed units as a member of the Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition, which was formed by then - Dallas Mayor Laura Miller in August 2006 to challenge coal - fired power plant pollutioas a member of the Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition, which was formed by then - Dallas Mayor Laura Miller in August 2006 to challenge coal - fired power plant pollution.

says Ann Weeks, senior counsel for the Clean Air Task Force, who said that in her 20 years in the field, someone always sues over new pollution rules and the rules typically wind up being upheld, as was the case with rules regulating power plants» mercury emissions.

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.

Steadily improving air pollution controls have sent sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. coal - fired power plants tumbling by more than 40 % and particulate emissions (the alleged cause of asthma) by more than 90 % since 1970, says air quality expert Joel Schwartz, even as coal use tripled.

And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Fewer than one - third of Americans lose sleep over global warming, fewer than express concern over air pollution, fewer than get stressed over environmental issues that haven't dominated the news in decades, such as the extinction of plants and animals and the loss of tropical rain forests.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

A 2010 report from the Clean Air Task Force, The Toll From Coal found that, in the United States, particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, as well as 9,700 additional hospitalizations and 20,000 heart attacks.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

Air pollution alerts will be a thing of the past as coal - fired power plants are dismantled and recycled and as gasoline - and - diesel - burning engines largely disappear.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

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.

For example, your home's electricity might seem clean because the air pollution is actually at the coal - fired power plant and not in your neighborhood, or the cheap single - use products that depend on horrible or toxic working conditions in another country, as well as the relatively cost - free (to the manufacturer and seller) disposal of those products.

Stopping 100 new coal plants has also kept thousands of tons of asthma - causing soot and smog pollution, as well as toxins like mercury, out of our air and water.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.

Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought.

Collectively, a total of 2,011 megawatts (MW) of coal - fired power will retire as part of the settlement, removing almost 12 million tons of climate - disrupting carbon pollution and nearly 84,000 tons of sulfur dioxide pollution that the three coal - fired power plants spew into the air each year.

As well as purifying the air we breathe of harmful toxins according to NASA, indoor plants can also reduce stress, control humidity and lower sound pollutioAs well as purifying the air we breathe of harmful toxins according to NASA, indoor plants can also reduce stress, control humidity and lower sound pollutioas purifying the air we breathe of harmful toxins according to NASA, indoor plants can also reduce stress, control humidity and lower sound pollution.