Sentences with phrase «vehicle pollution»

The committee also calls for the Government to allow councils greater flexibility in developing traffic management powers to tackle vehicle pollution both in and out of clean air zones.

With this important commitment to continue cutting power sector carbon pollution, the states can build on their momentum to begin tackling the next climate challenge: to address the excessive amount of vehicle pollution in the region.

Despite the continuing evidence of the growing contribution of vehicle pollution to global warming, acid rain and ground level concentrations of ozone, there is scant sign of concerted thinking on what should be done.

Ivy has been shown to have a major effect on reducing pollution from PM10s (particulate matter) caused by vehicle pollution so in addition to providing privacy and reducing noise they also contribute to improving air quality.

Overall, phase I of the National Program represents a 23 percent improvement in new vehicle pollution standards, an average annual improvement of nearly 5 percent.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne argued recently that given the large number of early deaths caused by motor vehicle pollution it is car use, not car accidents, that is the more significant killer.

Fleets of the classic panel vans and box trucks could be replaced by electric versions, which have the potential to not only save money, but to also reduce vehicle pollution in urban areas.

Clean air zones must be introduced across dozens of English towns and cities to tackle vehicle pollution, a committee of MPs has urged.

The ICCT's actions have ultimately shifted global attitudes toward diesel, changed the direction of the automobile industry, which is now moving away from diesel and petrol engines and toward electric mobility, highlighted the need to closely monitor self - regulating companies, and raised global awareness of the dangers of vehicle pollution to health and the environment in a transformative way.

Scientists find evidence that vehicle pollution in congested areas causes brain damage.

The truth is that if electric cars take off, a vehicle pollution problem just turns into a power plant pollution problem.