The solar industry helps make the world a better place — from protecting the climate and
reducing harmful pollutants to providing families with more affordable energy.
But there is some good news: Even seemingly small changes in curbing greenhouse gas emissions not only can
reduce harmful pollutants and clear the air, but also help to slow climate change.
Berkey
reduces harmful pollutants, chlorine, fluorine and toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury without removing the beneficial and healthy nutritional minerals of the water that is needed in maintaining a healthy body and sound mind.
The EVAP system
reduces harmful pollutants, generated by the engine combustion process, from being expelled into the environment.
n ships and
reduce harmful pollutants by 80 percent or more by 2030, preventing between 13,000 and 33,000 premature deaths each year.
Not exact matches
«We need to better understand the complex sleep microenvironment to improve it and
reduce the
harmful effects of related
pollutants on infants,» Corsi said.
Wanting to
reduce harmful air
pollutants in the South End, Albany County Legislator Samuel Fein is looking to require all permanent petroleum tanks be painted white.
It has also
reduced 90 percent of
harmful pollutants such as mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone and particulate matter.
«We need to better understand the complex sleep microenvironment to improve it and
reduce the
harmful effects of related
pollutants on infants,» Corsi said.
«By taking cars off the road and
reducing harmful emissions and
pollutants in our nation's most natural and pristine settings, we're helping Americans and visitors from around the world enjoy these public lands as they were meant to be enjoyed,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.
Switching from coal to gas to generate electricity eliminates a major
harmful set of
pollutants and improves health as well as
reducing emissions.
And a recent study using data from Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare shows that bike share has the potential to
reduce even more
pollutants harmful to human health by alleviating traffic congestion.
have powered new jobs and
reduced carbon dioxide and other
harmful air
pollutants, all at little to no additional cost to consumers.
Additionally, plants are able to augment water supplies and
reduce releases of
harmful pollutants into the environment.
(7) Protecting water quality and public health by
reducing stormwater runoff and keeping
harmful pollutants from entering waterways.
The deployment of CCS would also not
reduce other
harmful pollutants produced across the fuel cycle of coal.
This includes
reducing exposure to water - borne disease, and
harmful smoke and
pollutants which may result in respiratory diseases.
When we cut down carbon pollution, we also
reduce the amount of other
harmful air
pollutants spewed out by power plants, like fine particles — and that's a double bonus for health.
Often times the same efforts that
reduce methane emissions also
reduce other
harmful pollutants that threaten public health.
Finally, if you get really tired of the US - bashing, you can take some comfort that though the US is the # 1 per capita producer of CO2, of which we are uncertain is even
harmful, we have done a fabulous job
reducing many other
pollutants we are much more certain are
harmful.
Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants,
reducing both
harmful air
pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.