Sentences with phrase «traditional air pollutants»

The EPA estimates that the new rule would cut traditional air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and soot by 25 percent, according to those who have been briefed, yielding a public health benefit of between $ 55 billion to $ 93 billion when it is fully implemented with 2,700 to 6600 premature deaths avoided and 140,000 to 150,000 asthma attacks a year avoided.

Compared to coal, the use of natural gas for power generation emits 50 percent fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and even more substantial reductions in traditional air pollutants.

That BACT process works well enough for traditional air pollutants like sulfur dioxide or particulates, but for CO2 it's... awkward.

Not exact matches

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.

Traditional gas - fired forced air and oil - burning heating systems operate through an antiquated combustion process that emit harmful pollutants and exhaust into the environment.

It makes the non-CO2 contributions much clearer: Methane now has a more dominant role via its impact on atmospheric chemistry, and other, more traditional pollutants are included that show clearly the connections between air quality and climate.

That means, just as our colleagues argued in Climate Pragmatism, that there are numerous opportunities to cost - effectively tackle these «no regrets» pollutants «through traditional air pollution regulations, the spread of best practices, and multilateral cooperation.»