Sentences with phrase «quality air pollution»

But with this experiment, for the first time we'll have biological measurements coupled with high - quality air pollution measurements in a cohort of traffic police exposed to extreme levels of pollution.»

Not exact matches

The EPA has long been involved in pollution reduction and air quality improvement by testing and creating alternatives to engine idling of the 15.5 million trucks estimated to be operating in the U.S.

Where electric vehicles tend to succeed is in markets where trucks only have to drive short distances, and in areas where stringent air quality or pollution regulations make electric either favorable or a necessity.

An immense cloud of air pollution hanging over a city he loved, Johannesburg, inspired computer engineer Tapiwa Chiwewe to research air quality — something he had no experience in whatsoever.

Beijing will focus instead of «high quality» development, adhering to its «proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy» and pursuing its three - year target to clean up its financial sector and air pollution.

Check in with the EPA, which runs an air quality site that reports on daily and hourly pollution levels in many parts of the country.

If the quality is not good, buying fine particle filters is a partial solution — so is looking for the root causes of the air pollution around you and trying to avoid them.

The pollution problem in many African cities goes beyond just the air quality.

Speaker: Nathan Silva, Air Quality Monitoring Specialist Market Segment: Air pollution monitoring systems Key Capabilities: Pollutant gas analyzers, instrument enclosures, data acquisition and reporting software

China has been known for having low - quality air in their major cities, but the levels of pollution are reaching numbers that are more alarming than ever.

A newcomer to Kabul will be struck by the poor air quality, the pollution, and the poverty.

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It also works to improve the quality of air so as not to add to an ever growing pollution problem.

The Green Guide used 12 criteria for rating green hospitals: 1) siting, 2) water efficiency, 3) energy and air pollutions, 4) materials and resources, 5) indoor environmental quality, 6) healthy hospital food, 7) green education, 8) procurement, 9) contaminants, 10) green cleaning, 11) waste reduction, and 12) healing gardens.

«A whole generation of young people in our cities will potentially have their health impaired by pollution before the government meets air quality safety standards,» committee chair Joan Walley MP said.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

Mair sees the residents» struggle with air and noise pollution at the expense of quality - of - life as a glaring example of what some call «environmental racism.»

MPs were dismayed that business plans produced by the Department of Transport and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) do not mention air quality despite the fact that in 2008 there were 30,000 deaths in the UK linked to air pollution.

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

The government should take drastic action to improve Britain's air quality in order to reduce the numbers of pollution - related deaths, MPs have said.

Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has requested a derogation from EU air quality legislation in relation to limits on the levels of pollution from (a) nitrogen dioxide, (b) ozone and (c) other nitrogen oxides.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

Landowners can practice conservation by planting seedlings and wildflowers to provide wildlife food and habitat, shelter crops and landscape, reduce heating / cooling expenses, protect water quality, reduce air pollution, and stabilize erodible land.

New York's top environmental official Basil Seggos says the state has cut air pollution and improved water quality but global warming now presents the greatest long - term threat to people.

That's why for more than a decade, she has not only shared her air quality data with city, state and federal agencies who manage air pollution, she asks for their input on research projects as they are evolving...

Scaling back our energy consumption significantly, whether voluntarily or as a result of laws and regulations, would go a long way toward achieving our pollution reduction and air and water quality goals

GM's earlier attempt faltered To improve air quality and cut down pollution from the nation's existing fleet of 11 million diesel engines, U.S. EPA announced $ 20 million in grant funding yesterday to support clean diesel projects and another $ 9 billion through direct state allocations.

The ETE comprised different research programs relating to the environment carried out at the NUS faculties of engineering, medicine, and science with research efforts focused on the following six areas: biotreatment technology, membrane technology, adsorption and regeneration, environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis and air pollution control, and air quality management.

The main areas of focus for R&D in environmental science and engineering are related to water and wastewater technologies, waste management and minimization, air pollution and air quality management, and cleaner production technologies.

Brock LeBaron, deputy director of Utah's Division of Air Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near futuAir Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near Quality, which has funded some of the work in the basin and been focusing on reducing ozone pollution there, said that upcoming efforts to improve air quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near futuair quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near quality should also result in reduced methane emissions in the near future.

That data was combined with pollution and weather information collected by 13 air - quality monitoring stations.

These cities had the cleanest air quality in terms of year - round particle pollution.

«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.

Fires are more prevalent in other parts of the world, but the site's high - quality health, wind, and air pollution data made it attractive for study.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

«After careful consideration of my responsibility to protect the public health and environment from actual, threatened or potential harm from air pollution, I have decided to deny the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation application for an air quality permit,» Roderick Bremby, KDHE secretary, said in a written statement.

In the EU, the reduction in life expectancy due to air pollution was 7.5 months in 2010, and legislation already in place to improve air quality aims to reduce this loss to 5.2 months by 2030.

Using data from air quality monitoring stations, the researchers determined that mosses could be used as indicators of air pollution and allow a more comprehensive method for tracking potential problems in local air quality.

Nordenskiöld's record of the haze was among the first evidence that air pollution around the northern hemisphere can travel toward the pole and degrade air quality in the Arctic.

Cleaning the air Because air quality in half of India's cities suffers from particulate pollution 1.5 times global standards, a shift to greener rickshaws could help dent emissions there sizably.

On January 23, an EPA employee leaked that agency staff were instructed to put a freeze on all grants and contracts, which delegate and fund state efforts such as water quality testing and air pollution monitoring.

«While it can not be denied that the Beijing Municipal Government has made, and continues to make, strenuous efforts to improve air quality through addressing emissions from the transport, energy and industrial sectors, air pollution is still the single largest environmental and public health issue affecting the city,» they say.

«I think it has been quite effective,» said Sam Atwood of the South Coast Regional Air Quality Management District, the local air pollution agency that monitors the side - by - side ports of Los Angeles and Long BeaAir Quality Management District, the local air pollution agency that monitors the side - by - side ports of Los Angeles and Long Beaair pollution agency that monitors the side - by - side ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The team found that for each increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air pollution (the equivalent of the difference in air quality between a city like Los Angeles, CA and a city like St. Louis, MO), a woman's risk of cardiovascular disease increased by 44 percent if she had type 2 diabetes.

«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the study.

The study also is the first to examine differences in air quality and pollution sources between urban and rural areas in the Midwest.

As manager of the Forest Service's air - quality program, she's tasked with monitoring pollution.