Sentences with phrase «pollutant emissions from power plants»

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Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

Volk: When if the mind boggling facts This is no local pollutant: Every burst of CO2 that goes into the air from some power plant in Illinois is going to spread equally all around the world, and the same goes for CO2 emissions from China.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Both are pollutants, but the first is dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants, the second from ozone precursors such as NOx, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide mainly emitted from vehicles.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

In a move widely interpreted as his effort to «out green» Gore, Bush pledged to include carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities, in a basket of restricted power plant pollutants.

Congress directed the agency to address these pollutants, the Supreme Court confirmed the agency's duty, and the president should ensure that the agency acts swiftly to cut carbon emission from both existing and new power plants.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

The emissions in urban areas are found to improve across all pollutants and regions as the emission sources shift from million of tailpipes to a small number of large power plants in less - populated areas.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (March 28) that dismantles the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era regulation that would have set limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from power plPower Plan, an Obama - era regulation that would have set limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from power plpower plants.

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.

«To meet the new standards,» the National Journal says: «states will have to form plans that will limit emissions of ozone - forming pollutants from two major sources: stationary sources such as power plants and factories, and transportation» — which will reduce energy intensive economic activity.

The suit revolves around carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which scrubs pollutants from power plant emissions.

The former would protect people from power plant pollution that is liable to drift across state lines, and the later clamps down on toxic pollutants and mercury emissions.

The groups are challenging EPA's decision to approve a federal implementation plan for emissions of haze - forming pollutants from the Danskammer coal - fired power plant under the Clean Air Act's regional haze rule.