Sentences with phrase «reduce local air»

Since electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions, they reduce local air pollution and create a cleaner environment for children and families that live close to streets and highways.

Even if these efforts are successful, the international community needs to keep in mind that China would adopt such a carbon trading scheme strictly in its own interest - that is, to reduce local air pollution, increase energy security, and gain a competitive advantage in the energy markets of the future.

If the U.K. sold its shale gas both domestically and abroad to replace coal, it could reduce local air pollution significantly and reduce global carbon emissions by 170 megatons.

Biochar could reduce local air pollution from agriculture by reducing emissions of nitric oxide from soil, according to Rice University researchers.

In China electric scooters are widely used and will contribute to reducing local air pollution.

Preventable emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — are among the easiest of those challenges to address, and policies that address those emissions have the co-benefit of reducing local air pollution.

The resulting benefits can include lower travel costs, improved mobility, better community health through reduced local air pollution and physical activities resulting from non ‐ motorized transport, greater energy security, improved safety, and time savings through reduction in traffic congestion.

As such, reducing locally - emitted CO2 reduces local air pollution deaths even if CO2 in adjacent regions is not controlled.

Although much of the attention on electric mobility tends to focus on electric cars, powering buses, trucks, and delivery vehicles with electricity could also have a big impact on reducing local air pollution.

Not exact matches

It also helps local farmers and reduces air pollution.

Meanwhile Government launched a consultation on its Clean Air Zone framework last Thursday which looks to help local authorities reduce pollution from vehicles in city centres.

Ministers are now calling for local authorities to do more to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle air quality, and are writing to council leaders to remind them about the scheme.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

«Compact development reduces regional air pollution, may harm local health, risk study finds.»

These air temperature reductions have also been projected to improve local air quality by reducing smog formation and ozone concentration.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

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.

From Peace Lilies to Succulents and everything in between, it's well known that plants can be hugely beneficial to our health, so as part of its Green Up Your Gaff campaign, award winning Perrywood Garden Centre is hoping to boost concentration, improve air quality and reduce stress levels by visiting local schools in the area and providing them with free houseplants.

These efforts also include reducing local irritants in the air, such as cigarette smoke, mold, air pollution and dust mites.

Local governments have taken steps to clean up air quality and reduce emissions, while some countries have outlined outright bans on cars powered by internal - combustion engines in the future.

Channel Islands Region Incentive - Based Vessel Speed Reduction Programs 2014 and 2016 In 2014, in partnership with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the region.

In 2014, in partnership with local agencies and non-government organizations, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary launched a trial incentive program to slow ships down in the Santa Barbara Channel to reduce air emissions and reduce the likelihood of fatality from a ship strike to endangered whales in the region.

Such systems boost the local economy, reduce congestion, improve air quality and public health, and complement pre-existing forms of transportation.

The Phillips Collection is committed to promoting the use of sustainable transportation as a way to reduce local traffic congestion and air pollution.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

«Fueling trucks and buses with natural gas may help local air quality and reduce oil imports, but it is not likely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

-- Coupled Mode: The notion involves unstable air - sea coupling, where a local region deep convection enhances the trades to the east and reduces the surface winds to the west.

There are growing examples of co-benefits of mitigation and development policies, like those which can potentially reduce local emissions of health - damaging and climate - altering air pollutants from energy systems.

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The air is getting cleaner: Hard collaborative work by the private sector along with federal, state, and local governments has substantially reduced ozone levels, improving overall air quality, according to the EPA data.

... Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming.»

Beyond the climate benefits of reduced CO2 emissions, reduction in these pollutants is of additional importance at the local and regional level to address air quality and related health concerns.

Thus, retiring the 62 year old Meramec Coal Plant would go along ways toward cleaning up our local air and reducing local greenhouse gas emissions.

Additionally, the parks are increasing the quality of life for the city's children while providing local jobs, improving air quality, and reducing CO22 emissions through carbon storage.

Cities can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously addressing other pressing local environmental problems such as air pollution, waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as local economic development.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in commercial buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards.

Beijing is to ban the sale and use of coal in several regions including its six main districts by 2020 cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce air pollution, according to an announcement by local authorities on Monday.

With IdleAir, truck stop communities enjoy cleaner air with the reduction of black carbon and soot that emit from diesel engines, reduced noise pollution, local job creation, and an increased tax base for the local economy.

Nor do they consider the ancillary benefits, such as the improved local air quality and reduced ocean acidification.

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

The local pressure reduction pointed to when condensation reduces volume is instantly offset by mass flowing into the original volume from the surroundings and the energy released is not enough to make the air parcel and the liquid contents lighter than air containing water vapour.

I can't see any common sense basis of support for the proposition that condensation reduces pressure except as a very local short lived phenomenon whilst surrounding air moves back in.

First it increases the local pressure, then that drives air outwards from the heated volume, and that reduces density.

The Conservatory is recognized as one of the world's greenest buildings.The Pittsburgh 2030 District is, according to the city's website, «a collaborative, nationally recognized, but local community of high performance buildings in Downtown and Oakland that aim to dramatically reduce energy and water consumption, transportation emissions, and improve indoor air quality while increasing competitiveness in the business environment and owner's returns on investment.»

The project partner, GERES estimates that as well as improving the health of families by reducing exposure to hazardous air pollutants, creating employment through the local manufacture, retailing and maintenance of stoves, and protecting the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing deforestation, consumers have saved over $ 9,000,000 on fuel from the project overall.

«The Clean Power Plan, by providing such a framework, would enhance ongoing local efforts and enable new local initiatives to improve public health, increase air quality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy innovation.»

To get around the local pollution problems and to adhere to the new air quality regulations, the industry started building tall stacks to disperse the pollution instead of reducing it.