Sentences with phrase «reductions on air quality»

Methods: The team used new relationships between chronic mortality and exposure to fine particulates and ozone, global modeling methods and new future climate scenarios to simulate the co-benefits of global greenhouse gas reductions on air quality and human health.

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The online software system used by the Alliance will be enhanced so the wine community can more easily manage information on resource conservation practices to participate in greenhouse gas and water quality trading opportunities, energy and water use reduction incentive programs, and alternative compliance with new regulatory programs addressing air and water quality.

The team focused on emission reductions that resulted in win - win situations between climate policy and air quality policy.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

It's nothing a person would notice — a reduction barely more than one - tenth of one mile per hour — but on a large scale over an entire region, such a seemingly minor change has a profound effect on climate and air quality.

Trail, M.A., A.P. Tsimpidi, P. Liu, K. Tsigaridis, Y. Hu, J.R. Rudokas, P.J. Miller, A. Nenes, and A.G. Russell, 2015: Impacts of potential CO2 - reduction policies on air quality in the United States.

We're pleased to report that new offset projects are already in the development pipeline utilizing the four new voluntary carbon offset methodologies approved by ACR in 2012 including a first - of - akind methodology for emissions reductions from Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands, a rigorous and pragmatic methodology for Reduced Use of Fertilizer on Agricultural Crops, a ground - breaking methodology for Truck Stop Electrification that offers air quality co-benefits, and long - awaited REDD methodology modules.

Reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s, mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs, have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a first - of - its - kind study — which Berkeley Lab participated in — examining the impact of black carbon on California's climate.

Sacramento — Reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s, mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs, have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of black carbon on California's climate.

Public reaction to increasingly bad air quality in developing regions [74] may lead to future aerosol reductions, at least on a regional basis.

Significant emission reductions from the transportation sector will help the Bay Area attain and maintain state and national air quality standards and reduce greenhouse gases.Bay Area residents and visitors can learn more about the bike share system at www.bayareabikeshare.com, scheduled to go live later today, facebook.com/bayareabikeshare,and @sfbayareabikeshare on Twitter.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Bay Arair quality standards and reduce greenhouse gases.Bay Area residents and visitors can learn more about the bike share system at www.bayareabikeshare.com, scheduled to go live later today, facebook.com/bayareabikeshare,and @sfbayareabikeshare on Twitter.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Baquality standards and reduce greenhouse gases.Bay Area residents and visitors can learn more about the bike share system at www.bayareabikeshare.com, scheduled to go live later today, facebook.com/bayareabikeshare,and @sfbayareabikeshare on Twitter.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Bay ArAir Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county BaQuality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Bay Arair quality in the nine - county Baquality in the nine - county Bay Area.

Again, the point is while climate change and goals for reducing impacts on climate produce a lot of talk, the United States already is seeing significant reductions in key climate and air quality areas.

They appear to capture the reality that near - term health impacts seem to typically be considered more important to citizens than longer - term impacts of any sort, consistent with the vastly greater sums spent on medical care and research than on long - term environmental protection, and within the realm of air quality consistent with an emphasis on SO2 and NOx reductions.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction

The «sustainability» section seeks information from building owners on waste management and recycling, indoor air quality, water management, green cleaning and traffic reduction programs.