Sentences with phrase «reduced air pollution since»
The company did not respond to specific questions about the monitoring but said its focus «on running the refinery efficiently and investing in new technologies» has significantly reduced air pollution since the 1970s.
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According to the Energy Coordinating Agency this report shows that since 2009, RGGI has significantly reduced air pollution from fossil fuel power plants.
Since roughly 640 million of the 650 million bulbs sold each year in this fast - growing economy are incandescents, the potential for cutting carbon emissions, reducing air pollution, and saving consumers money is huge.
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.
CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero - Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog.
Since roughly 640 million of the 650 million bulbs sold each year in this fast - growing economy are the old inefficient incandescents, the potential for cutting carbon emissions, reducing air pollution, lowering the frequency of blackouts, and saving consumers money is huge.
Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»
Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.