Sentences with phrase «pollutants out of the air»

Solar - powered lights can improve their health - and at the same time, protect our environment - by keeping pollutants out of the air they breathe,» said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

They reduce noise and filter many pollutants out of the air.

That's not only going to shrink our carbon footprint; it's also going to take deadly pollutants out of the air we breathe.

They will also highlight the health benefits of keeping toxic pollutants out of the air and waterways, and try to drive home the message that spurring growth in the renewables sector can create jobs and economic gains.

Plug it into your cigarette lighter, and it generates billions of negative ions that act as magnets to draw microscopic pollutants out of the air.

Not exact matches

The government, he argued, has to first figure out the real sources of air pollutants in order to adopt the right measures.

But ozone is «scrubbed out of the air» by other urban pollutants.

However, since we are cleaning them out of the air at a faster rate than other chemicals, it could be causing a reaction that actually produces another class of pollutants, hydroperoxides.

In fact, the American Lung Association points out that indoor air can be home to a long list of potentially dangerous toxins and pollutants, including bacteria and viruses, carpets, cleaning supplies, mold and dampness, pet dander, radon, smoke, dust mites, paint products and many other chemicals and impurities.

The Cavalier comes standard with a PM2.5 fine particulate matter air filter that traps and filters out more than 99 percent of pollutants ranging in size from 0.3 mm to 10.0 mm.

The tangible benefits of B - Line cargo bike delivery — reduced air pollutants and CO2 emissions, alleviation of traffic congestion — should behoove logistic experts to figure out what part of city deliveries could be sustainably shifted to bike delivery.

I think it will probably take a few more years for this to play out, but, at this point, it appears as if this decision by the Supreme Court will end up having the effect of declaring CO2 to be an «air pollutant.»

What I can't work out is why hasn't the Clean Air Act (that classes CO2 as a pollutant but not of course water vapour) got rid of the «bad air» since the 197Air Act (that classes CO2 as a pollutant but not of course water vapour) got rid of the «bad air» since the 197air» since the 1970s?

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.

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

Other schemes, such as the machines designed to suck CO2 directly out of the air, are far less controversial, since all they aim to do is remove a pollutant that humans are adding to the air.

When we cut down carbon pollution, we also reduce the amount of other harmful air pollutants spewed out by power plants, like fine particles — and that's a double bonus for health.

A large scale roll - out of electric cars on European roads would result in significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower levels of certain air pollutants, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment.

David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the EPA's move to exclude greenhouse gases from the ruling was likely political: «If you're controlling toxic air pollutants, right - wing ideologues are back on their heels, but when the EPA goes after climate change, all the right - wing nuts come out of the woodwork.»

An industry group that represents coal producers and suppliers has been carrying out an ambitious strategy for defeating or scaling back a host of ongoing congressional and state initiatives to limit greenhouse gases, mercury and other air pollutants, according to a recent internal letter obtained by the newsletter Inside EPA.

Our million tree initiative will contribute to cleaning our air and filtering out some of the pollutants so they don't remain in the air where we breath them.

They then used government data on air pollution to figure out the level of exposure to various pollutants of the people with appendicitis.