Sentences with phrase «with ozone pollution»

Not exact matches

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

Along with carbon pollution, coal - fired power plants spew pollutants that form ground - level ozone, or what we know as smog.

The most recent research, which covers 1989 to 1992, and correlates tree sickness with low - level ozone pollution (This Week, 18 June 1994), is due to be published soon.

Perhaps the most counterintuitive traveling contaminant is ozone, commonly associated with ground - level pollution in cities.

«While our study mainly followed SC infants, we also had the opportunity to assess a small sample of pregnancies that were conceived through ART, and observed a higher impact of air pollution — particularly with regard to ozone exposure.

In Zatko's case, she says the support did produce a finding that could benefit society at large: She concluded that chemical reactions in snow were making only a minimal contribution to the region's ozone pollution, compared with emissions coming from natural gas drilling.

Visible pollutants can react with sunlight to create invisible ozone pollution, which frequently reaches unhealthy levels in major cities like Los Angeles.

According to CNBC, «the pollution has combined with ozone released by natural processes to cancel out many of the gains from stricter pollution controls enacted in the United States since 2005.»

These are just a few of the respiratory illnesses that are associated with exposure to ozone and air pollution particles.

This shift, coupled with limited ozone monitoring in most developing nations, has left a number of fundamental outstanding questions: Which regions of the world have the greatest human and plant exposure to ozone pollution?

Efforts to improve irrigation in sun - scorched regions, or to replace sensitive crops with more resilient varieties, could be less effective if ozone pollution keeps dirtying the air.

North of Los Angeles, the area also has the second - highest level of ozone pollution in the U.S. Mountains surround the valley on three sides, creating inversion layers that trap pollution, with little wind to carry it away.

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As my city (Denver CO) becomes inundated with high pollution and ozone days..

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

This finding suggests a source of potential economic benefits from strengthening regulations on ozone pollution; these benefits of course need to be compared with other costs and benefits.

Salt Lake Tribune August 7, 2017 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by a year.

«With our hot, dry summers, we tend to see higher ozone levels because ozone is formed with a combination of air pollution and sunliWith our hot, dry summers, we tend to see higher ozone levels because ozone is formed with a combination of air pollution and sunliwith a combination of air pollution and sunlight.

«Bringing ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at - risk,» McCarthy insisted in a statement last week.

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts.

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

The Convention on Long - range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Convention) under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is the only international instrument dealing with air pollution, and the Gothenburg Protocol to the LRTAP Convention is the first formal agreement to include SLCPs, namely black carbon and ozone.

For ozone pollution, most cities improved, with some dropping to their lowest levels ever.

The first found that globally - emitted CO2 increases US air pollution deaths by about 1,000 each year per 1.8 °F, with about 40 % due to ozone.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

«Furthermore, contrary to the blatantly false contention of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and others, CO2 is not a pollutant; it is a pollution fighter that reduces the negative effects of true pollutants, such as ozone, and replaces them with positive effects that are of great worth to man and nature alike.»

It has been suggested that a top - down allocation approach is more appropriate for boundaries where human activities exert a direct impact on the Earth (that is, climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion and chemical pollution), while a multiscale approach is more appropriate for boundaries that are spatially heterogeneous (that is biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land - system change, biodiversity loss and aerosol loading).8 Even with a top - down approach and a single global boundary, however, allocation is fraught with difficult ethical issues.

Older coal plants will continue to be hamstrung by the cost of complying with non-climate pollution rules (such as the ozone air quality standards), plus the perhaps even lower price of natural gas.

However, when nitrogen oxides are present in high concentrations as a result of human - caused pollution, VOCs react with these pollutants to produce more ozone and methane.

Furthermore, cane field burning — which is done pre-harvest to dispose of leaves and other unwanted parts of the plant — has been associated with significant increases in local air pollution and the emission of carbon monoxide and ozone.

That is the sum Cal State Fullerton's Jane Hall believes pollution is costing the Golden State on an annual basis, according to the LAT's Louis Sahagun: the result of over 3,800 premature deaths and illnesses associated with high levels of particulates and ozone.

In 2011, scientists found that American counties with the worst levels of ozone had significantly larger African - American populations than counties with less pollution.

In addition to causing acid rain, these chemicals are linked with increased water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer.

Given China's growing number of cars, along with other pollution sources — and Coke's growing market share in China, bolstered by its offer this week to buy Huiyuan, the country's largest juice maker — the machines couldn't come at a better time for the environment.How it happened Refrigerators used to rely on CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) for cooling — until it was discovered they were boring a hole in the ozone layer.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

In particular, the control of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) to reduce ozone pollution is going to require changes to the electric generating sector that are at odds with implementation of the energy policies.

WHO, 2003: Health aspects of air pollution with particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide.