Sentences with phrase «pollution as trucks»

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In New York City alone, idling vehicles emit as much pollution as nine million diesel trucks driving from the Bronx to Staten Island.

Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14 % of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.

Bounded by mountain ranges to both the east and the west, the valley's geographical and meteorological features combine with industrial activity such as truck traffic to contribute to these high levels of pollution.

The gases won't contribute as much as pollution from power plants, cars, trucks and planes, though.

For example, over time your Chevrolet car, SUV, truck or minivan will be exposed to natural environmental factors such as friction, pollution, and temperature extremes.

For example, over time your car, truck, SUV, or minivan will be exposed to natural environmental factors such as friction, pollution, and temperature extremes.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

Also, we know that ocean freighters cause a great deal of pollution as well as trains and trucks carrying Chinese goods across the US.

The 260 million cars, trucks, and buses that travel on our roads are a major source of this harmful air pollution, as well as the carbon pollution that fuels dangerous climate change.

We found that the pollution ranking of the automakers has remained relatively constant since MY98, with one notable exception: Although still dirtier than the average, Ford has overtaken General Motors as the greenest of the Big Three as a result of its voluntary commitment to build trucks with lower smog - forming emissions.

Although ozone pollution is formed mainly in urban and suburban areas, it ends up in rural areas as well, carried by prevailing winds or resulting from cars and trucks that travel into rural areas.

«One major contributing factor to China's urban air pollution is emissions from dirty diesel vehicles, including trucks, locomotives and ships, as well as construction and agricultural equipment.

Chief among them are «traditional» air pollution such as car and truck exhaust and smokestack emissions; destruction of land and water from extracting and transporting fuels; and the militarism, economic inequality and political authoritarianism that is endemic to extractive economies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia).

As part of a $ 500 million plan to clean up the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles — which are significant sources of air pollution in the Los Angeles basin — half of the 16,000 diesel trucks that currently operate at the ports will be replaced with liquefied natural gas (LNG) models.

As part of a $ 500 million plan to clean up the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles — which are significant sources of air pollution in the Los Angeles basin — half of the 16,000 diesel trucks that currently operate at the ports will be replaced with

And that pollution from cars, trucks, buses, nonroad vehicles (such as farm and construction equipment)-- and the fuels that power them?