Sentences with phrase «pollution control devices»

Retrofitting School Buses Leads to Large Cuts in Particulate Emissions Accordingly, the Texas school districts can install pollution control devices on diesel school buses.

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

While others around me, including my father, are against pollution control devices on motor vehicles because they «steal power» from the engine, I've always supported them.

The study determined that the small and, in some cases, statistically insignificant improvements in air quality in a few locations could have been achieved more cheaply with pollution control devices like scrubbers, which would have eliminated 95 percent of the particulate emissions.

Congressman Runyan has voted to increase offshore oil drilling (including in the mid-Atlantic, potentially threatening New Jersey's coast) while loosening safety standards and exempting oil companies from having to use available pollution control devices.

Installing pollution control devices increases the production cost of cars, thus also their sticker price, but increasing their efficiency makes them cheaper to drive.

Of course, there have been mistakes made in the «70s whereas the EPA mandated pollution control devices without giving enough time for auto makers to properly engineer the controls, thus causing driveability and performance problems.

* State and federal regulatory agencies should require specific testing for mercury emissions; * Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) should be installed in every cement kiln to measure mercury emissions accurately and provide real - time data these emissions; * EPA must require cement kilns to install mercury pollution control devices.

I have seen estimates that thousands died because of VW's extra pollution, though I suppose the estimates presume that a similar number of cars would have been sold without the defeat devices, and perhaps sales would have been lower because performance with an honest pollution control device might have been less.

Representing a major air pollution control device manufacturer in response to third - party subpoenas in cases involving coal - fired power plants.

In 1993, after a decade of court battles and threats from factory owners, the Supreme Court ordered 212 small factories surrounding the Taj Mahal to close because they had not installed pollution control devices.

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.

Concerning pollution from coal, Lomborg wrote in The Skeptical Environmentalist that «in developed economies, switches to low - sulfur coal, scrubbers, and other air - pollution control devices have today removed the vast part of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions».

The Ganges cases continued to be heard every week, and 5,000 factories along the river were directed to install pollution control devices and 300 factories were closed.