Sentences with phrase «tons of air pollutants»

Each weekend, about 54 million Americans mow their lawns, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants.

The company agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants each year at an cost of more than $ 4.6 billion.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 54 million Americans mow their lawns each weekend, using 800 million gallons of gas per year and producing tons of air pollutants.

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She added tress in the city remove at least 1,300 tons of pollutants for the air.

Seven of those facilities each emit at least 10 annual tons of hazardous air pollutants, including the carcinogens benzene and formaldehyde.

Another recent video by Clean Air Task Force is aimed at policy makers, and highlights the industry's release of 9 million tons of invisible pollutants every year, including footage of methane and volatile organic compounds shown escaping from a hydrocarbon storage tank.

If Peabody is responsible for 23 percent of U.S. coal and if each ton of Peabody coal causes the average damage from coal in the U.S., the burning of Peabody coal is causing $ 12 billion of damage from traditional health related air pollutants and almost $ 16 billion of damage including greenhouse gases every year.

Some advantages of recycling paper are that a ton of paper made from recycled fibers instead of virgin fibers conserves 7000 gallons of water; 17 - 31 trees; 4000 KWH of electricity; 60 pounds of air pollutants.

Coal - fired power plants release nearly 400,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants every year, including more than 40 percent of all man - made mercury emissions in the U.S..

Once in full operation, Cove Point will also emit thousands of tons of dangerous air pollutants and millions of tons of greenhouse gases that will only add to increased climate disruption.

Whereas only large industrial facilities emit enough smog - and soot - forming air pollutants (100/250 tons per year) to meet the PSD / Title V major source applicability thresholds, millions of non-industrial facilities — big box stores, office buildings, churches, hospitals, schools, Dunkin Donut shops — emit enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to meet the thresholds.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

Some major sources of hazardous air pollutants such as the Deer Park chemical manufacturing in Houston, TX (a subsidiary of OxyChem), could increase its emissions of hazardous air pollutants from 0.64 to nearly 25 tons per year if it stops using MACT to control emissions.

The «Tailoring Rule» is how EPA gets around the Clean Air Act (CAA) which requires permitting for any stationary source that emits 100 or 250 (depending on class) tons of a pollutant each year.

«The EPA estimates the oil and gas industry releases 127,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants every year, second only to power plants and more than any of the other industries already reporting» it, Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project, said in a statement.

Their green - above - all approach makes lots of sense for children's furniture, from both a planetary and human health perspective: youngsters spend tons of time in their cribs, on a changing table, and surrounded by stuff in their nurseries; exposure to VOCs and other harmful pollutants that are off - gassing from their surroundings can lead to both short and long - term health problems, especially if they're living with poor indoor air quality during their busiest developmental years.

We would also be able to cut nearly 2 million tons of CO2 and nearly 90,000 tons of other pollutants from our air.