Sentences with phrase «toxic smog»

Beijing authorities have declared a five - day pollution «red alert», shutting schools, ordering thousands of vehicles off the roads and telling residents to stay indoors, after the Chinese capital was enveloped by a shroud of toxic smog that is expected to linger until Wednesday.

Beijing's notorious air pollution has reached beyond hazardous levels in recent years, with the city covered in thick, toxic smog for a good part of the year.

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

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But its true filthiness is revealed in the toxic smog it creates.

It was enough to feel that an eerie toxic smog threatened the entire planetary environment.

Set in front of a brown, watery spread reminiscent of toxic smog or oil, the fantastical contraption of space - age centrifuges at the right are precariously linked to the Rorschach - like constellation of geometric patterns and bulbous shapes on the left.

Some studies have concluded that the toxic smog in New Delhi is the equivalent of smoking as many as 45 cigarettes a day.

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.

At times, toxic smog literally chokes the city.

The Golden State is at the vanguard in the United States in reducing auto emissions of nitrogen oxide gases, which help produce toxic smog and acid rain.

Not exact matches

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.

Higher levels of ozone smog, toxic to the lining of the lungs, will also boost the incidence of respiratory diseases.

Federal and state officials should step up and promote measures that limit methane, toxic pollution and smog - forming agents, the report concludes.

1) The «Toxic Load» theory of modern illnesses (and some from earlier in times like Victorian England and the coal smog in the air).

It also protects against the toxic effects from smog, cigarette smoke, heavy metals, solvents, dyes, phenols, and nitrates.

* The sulfur - containing amino acid N - Acetyl - Cysteine (NAC) to help neutralize heavy - metal toxins and toxic by - products of smoking, smog, alcohol and fats.

The standards we recommend in this report would also significantly reduce emissions of other air pollutants, specifically smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic pollutants like benzene that cause cancer and are associated with a host of other health problems.

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.

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.

First, I simply can not believe with what the entire world knows about China, Beijing, and its smog and air quality problems, some Olympics committee was thoughtless enough to vote a major global athletic event, which involves breathing, to be held in such a polluted, hazardous and toxic environment.

The human suffering caused by the fires is heavy, as toxic clouds of smog envelope Indonesia, as well as its neighboring nations in Southeast Asia.

There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.

It would effectively block any federal safeguards against power plant air pollution, including those aimed at curbing acid rain, toxic emissions, or interstate smog violations.

So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer - causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.

The Hill reports, «Republican lawmakers are planning an all - out assault on Obama's environmental agenda, including rules on mercury and other air toxics from power plants, limits on ground - level ozone that causes smog, mountaintop mining restrictions and the EPA's attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over streams and ponds.»

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

The Guardian: Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog on Thursday as the capital suffered the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered safe.

Cons: Though pentane doesn't damage the ozone layer, it does contribute to smog, all brands in the US contain HBCD, flammable and produces toxic fumes, made from crude petroleum byproducts, easier to damage than the other rigid foams, protective gear is recommended to be worn during cutting and installation..

[3] He was a key player in pushing Bush's Clear Skies initiative, which allowed a 520 percent increase in toxic mercury pollution, a 225 percent jump in carbon dioxide pollution (a global warming contaminant), and a delay in the enforcement of smog and soot pollution until 2016.