Sentences with phrase «study on the air quality»

ALBANY, N.Y. — The DEC will conduct a study on the air quality in the Ezra Prentice neighborhood after South End homeowners voiced concerns.

The researchers found that due to the confined cabin space, with the worst ventilation conditions, as well as in peak contamination, that the evidence indicates that smoking in cars produces fine particle pollution concentrations which are very rarely found in studies on air quality.

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The DEC will conduct a study over the next year on the air quality in the Ezra Prentice neighborhood after South End homeowners voiced concerns.

While the media has reported on the air quality studies, the trial and community concerns, the stories of individuals and their families have, for the most part, remained in the background.

A new air quality study is underway on Buffalo's West Side near the Peace Bridge.

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

The study also highlighted that green infrastructure has both positive and negative impacts on air quality at street levels, depending on the urban location it is in as well as its vegetation characteristics.

«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.

These discoveries are an outgrowth of research on PAHs that was done by Simonich at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games in 2008, when extensive studies of urban air quality were conducted, in part, based on concerns about impacts on athletes and visitors to the games.

The study examined the benefits of global and domestic GHG mitigation on US air quality and human health in 2050, comparing a scenario with no global action to reduce GHGs with an aggressive scenario that significantly slows climate change.

The negative effect of imported pollution on the US's ability to achieve its air quality goals is not wholly unexpected, according to Owen Cooper, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly involved.

The study, which used data from the United States and China, is one of the first to investigate the interaction between air quality and the number of stroke cases (prevalence) along with the potential effect of temperatures on the association.

By including the two most important air pollutants in the analysis, the new study «gives policy makers and local air quality managers a much better picture of what is going on.»

But few studies have examined the specific effects of climate on electricity emissions and air quality.

Labs on the hit list include an air quality research center in Ames, Iowa, an acoustics laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi, and a tiny Utah center that studies «locoweeds,» plants that are toxic to livestock.

The Yale study is part of a growing body of research on racial and social disparities in air quality.

This is according to Alexandra Larsen of North Carolina State University in the US who led the first ever study taking a long - term look into the effects that wildfire smoke has on air quality across the US.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers will evaluate a dozen local homes as part of a national study on climate change's effects on future indoor air quality.

And because this is just one study in one location, Wellenius says, the findings don't necessarily argue for tighter restrictions on U.S. air quality standards.

The study was presented at the Seventh International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate in 1996.

Anne Thorne Architects is now working with a PhD student from University College London on a two - year post occupancy study, looking at energy use and bills, indoor air quality (CO2, humidity) and the perceptions of both residents and landlord.

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.

A recent study simulated the impact of climate change on air quality at the regional level in the year 2100 (as compared to 1990).

Increasing wind generation to the levels of the Study Scenario simultaneously reduces carbon dioxide emissions, improves air quality resulting in lower levels of illness and premature loss of life, and reduces demand on water resources.

Their was a study done by NOAA on the air quality in Erie Colorado, close to my home where their is lots of wells, and it stated that they found levels of Methane, butane and some other carcinogenic chemicals in the air were higher then levels in big cities like Houston Texas and Pasadena California.

(Sec. 753) Requires the EPA Administrator and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to study and report to Congress on: (1) the impact of aircraft emissions on air quality in nonattainment areas; (2) ways to promote fuel conservation measures for aviation; and (3) opportunities to reduce air traffic inefficiencies that increase fuel burn and emissions.

She hit her stride at Texas A&M University, where after a couple of more years concentrating on air quality studies she rediscovered the allure of clouds and of severe storms.

Related to research on fine particles and health we study the roles of outdoor air and living on indoor air quality.

For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.

This is a great study on indoor air quality in green buildings compared to that in conventional buildings.

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The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

In case you don't know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger's own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing which caught my eye from the other side of the country was a slideshow on how to grow you own fresh air, using only three indoor plants: the Areca Palm, Mother - in - Law's Tongue (an unfortunately named plant if there every was one), and the Money Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one hour.

More at Green Building Advisor More on air quality and heat recovery ventilators: California Study Finds New Homes Are Toxic Big Steps In Building: Ban Formaldehyde Get a Heat Recovery Ventilator if You Seal Your House Up Tight 10 Mold Prevention Tips

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The study is the first to focus on the links between antibody responses to cockroach and mouse proteins and respiratory and allergic symptoms in such a young age group, and the implications for children who live in our inner cities where indoor air quality is often poor are truly significant.

DeSmogBlog has also done an in - depth investigation on the environmental impacts of fracking in the Fracking the Future report, and found that the potentially devastating impacts from unconventional gas development on water supplies, air quality and the global climate deserve much greater study and scrutiny.

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Multiple studies reinforce the impact of air quality on health.

Areas of study will include the impact on humans from environmental factors such as lighting, noise, air quality and temperature, as well as products and technologies that are used to create and furnish indoor spaces.