The phrase
"pollution control" refers to the various actions and strategies put in place to prevent, reduce, or eliminate pollution in order to protect the environment and human health. It involves implementing measures to limit pollution, such as reducing emissions from factories or developing more sustainable waste management practices, to ensure cleaner air, water, and soil.
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We bear a moral obligation to implement controls and standards that reflect the best available
air pollution control technologies.
This program extends loans to small businesses engaged in the planning, design, or installation
of pollution control facilities.
A growing body of research suggests that capital markets react to environmental news and thus create incentives
for pollution control in both developed and emerging market economies.
The treatment capacity of the district's
water pollution control plant is approximately 50 million gallons per day.
Although overall emissions have dropped due to
pollution control devices and a drop in coal use, regional and seasonal increases in power plant pollution could affect people's health and the environment.
Despite these deadly consequences, coal lobbyists have successfully delayed
mercury pollution controls for years at the expense of tens of thousands of lives.
He adds that advanced countries need to strive for sustainable consumption and help developing countries adopt
advanced pollution control technologies, whereas developing countries need to take action to reduce local emissions.
Power companies routinely shift generation among plants and between companies to efficiently supply the power required, and to meet
pollution control requirements cost - effectively.
Whenever new and
better pollution controls are proposed, defenders of the status quo are quick to argue that we can't afford them.
First, one factor has surely been
increased pollution control costs, which have led to greater demand for cost - effective instruments.
In the lawsuit, the groups claim Global failed to install proper
pollution controls when it increased the amount of crude oil handled at the facility.
Notable accomplishments include improving environmental sustainability, improving chemical analysis techniques and implementing innovative
pollution control methods centered around proactive testing.
Most of these emissions can be reduced
through pollution controls — sometimes by a significant amount — though many plants don't have adequate controls installed.
-- Avoid having to
update pollution controls if there has already been a government review of existing ones within the past 10 years.
The success story could spur the wider adoption of market -
based pollution controls, which allow businesses to buy and sell pollution permits.
Provide environmental counseling and litigation support in matters such as improper land use, hazardous substance handling and disposal and water
pollution control issues.
To be sure, like other air
pollution control rules, it requires somewhat more than the marketplace will deliver on its own.
We need strong clean air standards that include the most
protective pollution control technology to safeguard our health and our environment now, as well as that of future generations.
Some will anticipate the increased demand
for pollution controls and begin manufacturing them in anticipation.
It should also help the environment through more efficient use of resources and better methods
of pollution control.
Today many countries continue to build new coal plants and run existing coal plants without
modern pollution controls, seriously affecting the health of their citizens.
There are about 20 coal plants now pursuing permits; two of them are federally subsidized and would meet the new standard with
advanced pollution controls.
That source would grow as electric cars demand more and more electricity, unless
tighter pollution controls are placed on power plants or electric utilities shift to less polluting sources such as solar.
This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air
pollution control measure in cities.»
Moreover the findings proved the efficacy of stringent air
pollution controls on mercury spewing coal - fired plants.
Emma Penrod Salt Lake Tribune 9/12/2017 A federal plan that would have required Rocky Mountain Power to install new
pollution controls at two coal - fired power plants is now on hold indefinitely.
Four refineries — three of them next to Wilmington — bought most of the pollution credits, which let them off the hook for
installing pollution control equipment and created a hot spot, according to a 1999 report.
Responsible for assisting
pollution control engineers in testing, checking, and approving the construction of industrial and commercial areas to assure compliance with the applicable regulations of the emissions and control of air contaminants
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