Sentences with phrase «toxic air pollutants»

Scientists calculate that toxic air pollutants contribute to the deaths of almost 30,000 people every year, more than twice those affected by passive smoke.

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

Several studies have used economic models to predict the effects of MATS, which aims to curb the emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollutants from power plants.

According to a new study published in the journal «Environmental Science and Technology,» California saw a significant drop in seven major toxic air pollutants between 1990 and 2012.

As an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Selin studies toxic air pollutants and how these emissions affect humans and the environment.

Destiny's neighborhood has consistently had the highest levels of toxic air pollution in Maryland, and in 2007 and 2008, Curtis Bay was officially the area with the highest level of toxic air pollutants in the US.

The MATS rule, finalized in December 2011, requires coal - fired power plants to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants through the installation of pollution -LSB-...]

David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the EPA's move to exclude greenhouse gases from the ruling was likely political: «If you're controlling toxic air pollutants, right - wing ideologues are back on their heels, but when the EPA goes after climate change, all the right - wing nuts come out of the woodwork.»

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

The American Lung Association supports reducing the sulfur levels in all gasoline, diesel, aviation, and marine fuels, and toxic air pollutants from all mobile sources.

For some toxic air pollutants, more can get into the body through the skin than via breathing, new human data indicate.

The U.S. EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercury.

Fossil fuel burning also releases hazardous and toxic air pollutants; for example, coal - fired electricity generation accounts for over half of mercury emissions in the United States.

The Clean Air Act requires EPA to identify categories of facilities that are major sources of toxic air pollutants and set emission standards for each category, such as cement kilns.