Sentences with phrase «pollution from»

Plugging a ship into shore - side power - and turning off onboard generators - is one solution to reducing air pollution from ships, as well as limiting local noise.

They are being trained on the IMO treaty restricting air pollution from ships as well as ship energy - efficiency measures — MARPOL Annex VI.

The existing standards governing water pollution from power plants have not been updated in 30 years..

(1) Water pollution from coal.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.

Now it's the turn of the Indian Ocean, where pollution from the subcontinent has been wafting over the Bay of Bengal, cooling the sea surface and weakening the annual monsoon.

His expertise is on mathematical modelling, atmospheric physics and chemistry; particularly evaluation of urban air quality, the dispersion of pollution from traffic.

A Climate Central analysis attributed almost all of 2015's record heat to carbon pollution from human activities with El Niño and other natural phenomenon also playing smaller roles.

Prior to this she studied at the University of St Andrews and Scottish Association for Marine Science, assessing the extent of underwater noise pollution from Acoustic Deterrent Devices used at fish farms on the west coast of Scotland.

Unfortunately, it is being threatened by pollution from people on land and from natural causes.

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

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that taxes in major economies are far below the cost of pollution from the use of fossil fuels on climate and the environment, urging governments to do more to make polluters pay.

Areas of expertise: Carbon pollution from the power sector, oil and gas emission standards, and the Clean Air Act

But curbing oil and gas methane remains the quickest, most affordable opportunity to eliminate a chunk of this pollution from any major methane source.

Corals are under severe pressure due to pollution from industrial waste, sewage, chemicals, oil spills, fertilizer, runoff and sedimentation from land; climate change; acidification; and destructive fishing practices.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

World Bank analysis quantifying for the first time the combined impact of road crashes and air pollution from vehicles.

Program Purpose: The Mine Water Control Dialogue addresses shared concerns in Russia and the USA for water pollution from the uncontrolled drainage of abandoned mines that is damaging watersheds and causing health risks.

Water pollution from the uncontrolled drainage of abandoned mines is damaging entire watersheds and causing health risks to communities across Russia and the US.

Seek legislation to impose a federal moratorium on new uranium development until environmental pollution from previous mining and milling is cleaned up, workers are appropriately compensated, and community health studies conducted.

Learn more about light pollution from the National Parks Service Night Skies Program: http://www.nature.nps.gov/night/light.cfm

4) Willie Soon states «I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything,» despite listing himself as an «expert in mercury and public health» for a discredited Wall Street Journal op - ed dismissing health concerns over mercury pollution from coal plants.

Special report on smoke pollution from Indonesian peat fires by correspondent Yew Jin Lee, with 3 experts.

This, they note, likely underestimates the scale of the problem, owing to the exclusion of plastic pollution from China and Singapore.

The plan requires states to design individual programs to dramatically cut carbon pollution from their power plants.

These researchers wanted to know more about the role of pollution from traffic and the industrial burning of fossil fuels in these deaths.

Electrified Ports: In addition, lots of the pollution from ships is given off while they are in port, their engines idling to produce on - board power.

Public involvement campaigns, combining citizen action with accurate technical information, have been central to the progress made during the past 25 years to prevent pollution from future mining, and restoration of lands damaged by past mining around the world.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

The technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including planting new forests and building facilities that directly remove and capture climate pollution from the air, is in its infancy.

Indeed, Ma reports, outdoor air pollution from coal was China's biggest source of particulate - related harm.

Candice Kim, Climate Campaign Director, works with the Climate Law Institute to fight pollution from oil and gas extraction.

As pollution from point sources — single identifiable sources such as sewage — has been cleaned up over time, the emerging concern has become what are known as nonpoint sources, or diffuse sources, throughout the watershed, such as agricultural lands.

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

Such cap - and - trade programs have already cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide pollution from power plants.

Prior to joining the Center, she worked at the Coalition for Clean Air on campaigns to reduce toxic air pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of California.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

Carbon pollution from transportation accounts for 38 percent of the state's greenhouse gas pollution.

But Haszeldine says a similar technology — scrubbing sulphur dioxide pollution from power station emissions — was once dismissed as impossibly expensive, but now runs on most power stations for little extra cost.

Carbon pollution from both industries, already a substantial contributor to man - made climate change, is expected to rise sharply as international trade accelerates.

«The larger point here is that Administrator Pruitt is saying it's OK for industry to withhold basic information on pollution from oil and gas operations from the American people,» he told E&E News.

Total emissions during the 112 - day event were equal to one - quarter of the annual methane pollution from all other sources in the Los Angeles basin combined.

Critics of burning say the technique just moves pollution from the water to the air.

Low - income neighborhoods near the Ship Channel, which connects Houston to Galveston Bay, have been plagued with air pollution from oil refineries, chemical plants and the shipping industry.

The issue of pollution from coal ash gained momentum in North Carolina last month, when a spill from a retired Duke power plant dumped at least 30,000 tons of ash in the Dan River.

These findings highlight the importance of eliminating mercury pollution from the environment, and following current recommendations to limit consumption of certain types of fish [1], say the researchers.

Efforts to restrain deforestation are working, which means pollution from farming has increased in importance

«While we know pollution from hydraulic fracturing impacts our health, we do not yet know where that pollution is coming from — from the air or water, from chemicals onsite, or an increase in traffic,» said co-author Katherine Meckel, assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Increasingly strict regulations mean that pollution from cars and other vehicles has fallen.

Everything you need to know about the legal effort to block the new law to restrain global warming pollution from power plants