Sentences with phrase «smog from»

Fast growing cities, particularly in China, are affected by smog from coal - fired power stations.

China is the world's top polluter but also its biggest investor in renewable energy and it has pledged to reduce its reliance on carbon - belching coal and clear the toxic smog from its cities

He would undo new safeguards from mercury, carcinogens, soot, and smog from industrial sources.

The World Health Organization estimates that preventable deaths from air pollution, meaning soot and smog from burning wood, coal, oil and gasoline, total more than two million per year worldwide.

It was that smog from the mills.

Removing a small, park - sized circle of smog from the sky above Beijing would be like taking a drop out of a bucket, but it would potentially rally opposition to pollution in general, when people are reminded of how bright and clear their city could look without being shrouded in a veil of toxic air.

And as a section of sky was cleared, what would keep the surrounding smog from filling in the open space?

Mountains of the Andes chain can be seen from most points in the city and tend to trap the smog from the rapid pace of growth and development.

Smog from Indonesia is a perennial problem in Malaysia and Singapore, but the pollution levels this year have hit record levels.

Malaysia has declared a state of emergency in the country's south after choking smog from slash - and - burn agriculture in neighboring Indonesia enveloped the region.

The smog from the graphite mines alone, used to make the rechargeable batteries, would choke the planet.

Traffic fumes cost rich countries $ 0.8 trillion a year In 34 wealthy nations, the smog from roads accounts for half of the $ 1.7 trillion cost of air pollution

Even at noon on this otherwise sunny day, the sky was blanketed in hazy toxic smog from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the entry points for more than half of the goods shipped into the United States and the largest source of air pollution in California.

Pollution from nonfactory sources, such as smog from car tailpipes and lawn equipment, still fouls the air and contributes to asthma.

The logic of sprawl saw cities eat up a larger and larger share of the surrounding real estate, fueling habitat destruction, smog from tailpipe emissions, runoff from impermeable pavement and other environmental ills.

2010 A heatwave, and smog from resulting fires in Russia, contribute to 56,000 deaths.

Along with reducing smog from idling vehicles waiting in line to pay tolls - Buffalo Niagara International Trade Gateway Organization, Executive Director Craig Turner said, electronic tolling would save truck drivers and others in the logistics industry lots of time.

At the same time, the regulatory proposals would seek to reduce emissions from pollutants that lead to smog from so - called peaking units.

Huge areas of pine forests in the mountains east of Los Angeles are dead because of smog from Los Angeles.

The air was choked with smog from an endless stream of cars, buses, and burning garbage.

Hundreds of miles away, the colors of the Grand Canyon — layers of red and gold rock millions of years in the making — are often obscured by smog from the cars of Phoenix, Vegas and even Los Angeles.

Beijing has promised to implement «extraordinary» measures this year in a bid to tackle choking smog from traffic congestion and the heavy use of coal.

Not exact matches

In one memorable example, the «green police» stop a long line of smog - belching cars but wave a lone, righteous diesel from VW's Audi division through with a cheery, «You're good to go, sir.»

American environmental protection has always focused on pollution, particularly Southern California smog — precisely what the NOx emissions from diesels exacerbate.

The company needs time to build up its fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the vehicles smog tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.

Do you want to start a smog check company from scratch?

In 1995 he purchased the Los Angeles International Airport when LAX moved to its current home on landfill five miles off the coast (downwind from the 2,000 - foot smog fans) One year later, faith projections were seeing reality in the present 52,000 - seat sanctuary known colloquially as «the Dudedome.»

We can begin to make our way toward wisdom by clearing out the data smog — by fasting from TV, computer, cell phone and pocket planner long enough to talk with a friend face - to - face, read a book or simply sit still and listen for the way of wisdom.

Disneyland is divided into several «lands,» all accessible through Main Street, which provides an avenue of transition from the reality of traffic jams, smog and vast car parks to the fantasies of clean, orderly and non-threatening Adventureland, Tomorrowland, and Frontierland.

I walked from that «Christian» gathering wanting to bathe away the residue of the poisoned air that hung in the room like urban smog.

The state argues that New York is downwind from states that contribute substantially to its smog problem.

The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.

Common asthma triggers include second - hand smoke from cigarettes and cigars; dust - mites; mold; cockroaches and other pests; pesticides; pets; and smog, soot and chemicals in outdoor air.

The white pixels represent the aerosols (smoke) leftover from the fires, while the green, yellow, and red pixels represent rising amounts of tropospheric ozone (smog).

The problem is that waste from bovines and other livestock produces ammonia, a compound that contributes to the smog that chokes southern California.

Founded in 1946, SRI studied smog and pollution generally and received funding from tobacco and oil companies.

But the greatest drop in smog - forming pollutants — and greatest gains in crop yields — came from policies such as the Clean Power Plan.

Wary of government regulation to slash pollution from refineries and other operations within their supply chain, as well as public concern about smog in cities such as Los Angeles, petroleum officials at API and member firms offered alternative theories of how smog was created.

Air pollution from fossil fuel production has contributed to worsening smog and climate change

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

And while ozone high in the atmosphere helps shield Earth from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, at ground level, it mixes with fine particulates to form breath - choking smog.

Fuel from the polluted site released more nitrogen oxides, which contribute to the formation of smog and ozone.

While events in Donora showed that air pollution can have immediate consequences, it took decades for researchers to realize that deaths from smog could be going undetected, lost in the background noise of mortality statistics.

The research team also reported significant national percentages of non-greenhouse gas effects attributable to the healthcare sector, including acidification (12 %), smog formation (10 %), and respiratory disease from particulate matter (9 %).

A team of researchers headed by André Prévôt from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) succeeded in demonstrating how these fine particles develop in a so - called smog chamber.

New research suggests that the waste from dairy farms may be a bigger source of smog in Los Angeles than the region's millions of cars.

Smog is not spewed wholesale from tailpipes and smokestacks.

Smog - causing nitrogen oxides from the Los Angeles port's ships declined 30 percent between 2005 and 2011, while particulate matter decreased about 70 percent.

A speed limit of 14 mph, down from the current cruising speeds of 25 to 29 mph, would cut nitrogen oxides — a main ingredient of smog — by 55 percent and soot by almost 70 percent, according to the University of California, Riverside study.

By factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smog.