Sentences with phrase «worst smog»

Norilsk, Russia — This city above the Arctic Circle contains the world's largest metal smelting complex and, therefore, some of the world's worst smog.

On Thursday, Beijing was blanketed in its worst smog in months.

In 1998, the final year of the ersatz stories, Tim described the ambitious plan of Justin Vorfun, the hot - tub - loving CEO of a Hollywood Hills engineering firm, to install 300 building - size bellows around Los Angeles to blow the city's famously bad smog out to sea.

Standing on Titan, you would see a dense orange haze similar to a really bad smog day in Los Angeles.

IT MAY look white and fluffy, but the mountainous cloud is a bad smog hanging over Los Angeles.

I've never owned or driven a car or had a driver's license.I thought back at the time that would, over my lifetime, make some real contribution to how bad the smog was getting.

It all started in the»70s when we really were polluting our environment with trash and chemicals in our waters and very bad smog in our cities, etc, etc..

Finally, the Escape will be easier on L.A.'s notoriously bad smog: according to one Ford sales manager,» [the Escape Hybrid] releases fewer smog - forming emissions into the atmosphere during a three - hour drive (about 180 miles) than grilling one hamburger in your back yard.»

Not exact matches

The smog has a difficult time getting aired out considering Milan is in a valley, and it's made even worse when the climate is dry and warm, as it was this winter — an issue that will likely only intensify as climate change progresses.

GOWANUS — President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts would undo decades of progress toward cleaning the toxin - riddled Gowanus Canal and send New York back to the «bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sounded the alarm about the deep cuts at a canal - side press conference last week, saying the slashed funding would send New York «back to the bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution.»

The bad news: the hot weather is causing a smog alert for the five boroughs, Long Island and parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.

Tensions came to a head in late 2011, when Beijing's smog got so bad that its airport canceled hundreds of flights.

In October 2010, as heavy smog hung over Beijing, the U.S. embassy's Twitter feed said its rooftop pollution sensor had detected «crazy bad» levels of hazardous microparticles.

«The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation,» Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal article about smog pollution.

As a result the air gets worse, whether you're talking about choking smog, insidious soot or, yes, climate change.

BAD AIR U.S. pollution levels have come way down since the 1970s, but there's still enough smog to raise the risk for cardiovascular deaths.

Ozone, the main ingredient of smog, is still the worst in the country in the Los Angeles basin.

Wood smoke is also bad for the outdoors environment, contributing to smog, acid rain and other problems.

Beijing suffered its own smog emergency last winter when the PM2.5 surpassed 900 on one particularly bad day in January.

Since the 2008 Olympics, when government leaders made a national effort to clean the air, experts say the city's smog has become even worse.

[Angel Hsu et al, Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability] It's the same team who previously used satellite derived estimates to point out that New Delhi has smog as bad or worse than Beijing.

And sky glow is made worse by other forms of pollution such as dust and particles of smog, which scatter the light.

The Houston area rivals the Los Angeles region for the nation's worst ozone, a key component of smog.

Beijing, sometimes derided as «Greyjing» or «Beige - jing» by English - speaking residents, suffered its own smog emergency last winter, when the pollution index reached 45 times the recommended level one particularly bad day in January.

And we now have a gloomier picture of the extent to which smogs and other human - made aerosols in the atmosphere shade us from the worst of global warming.

AQMD's Sam Atwood attributed the increase in bad air days to weather patterns, noting that overall, smog - forming emissions continue to decline.

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The smog - filled air outside doesn't smell so bad when you've spent the previous two hours wallowing, waist deep, in rancid human filth.

Dog Smog Remedy attacks your dog's bad smell from both ends.

One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.

While Beijing's air quality has generated more headlines worldwide, scientists say New Delhi's air is often significantly worse, especially during the winter, when choking smog often settles over the sprawling city.

NASA's eyes in the sky are seeing a lot of air pollution across Asia and the Middle - East, and Beijing's smog problem is so bad that the government has to force factories to shut down temporarily.

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The standards will help individual states to reduce their smog and soot levels, prevent bad air days and improve public health and they include some flexibility for small businesses including «additional lead time for compliance.»

Ethanol reduces c02 slightly but burns with a lot more polluting solids as found by testing recently, it also clogs motors and catalyic converters and produces nitros oxide which is a lot worse and that is smog, more lies, c02 is essential for every living thing on the planet not a pollutant.

As if sweltering heat weren't bad enough, Europeans also suffered through a higher - than - normal number of days with dangerous smog levels that year.6 Smog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vasmog levels that year.6 Smog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vaSmog — with ground - level ozone as the main component — forms when sunlight reacts with chemicals such as volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and water vapor.

More quietly (but in many ways worse), leaking wells, pipes, and storage reservoirs are estimated to emit enough greenhouse gases to cancel out the climate advantages of burning gas over coal, and increase smog.

One of the worst of these «pea - soup fogs» was the London smog of the winter of 1952/53.

The smogs were particularly bad during the winter months and when temperature inversions built up under high pressure, causing the pollutants to become trapped in the lower atmosphere and for water vapour to condense around these particles.

That's bad news because NOx can help create the smog California cities used to be known for, which can in turn trigger respiratory illnesses.

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

Obama said that when he went to college in 1979 in Los Angeles, he could feel his lungs burn after about five minutes of running outside because the smog and pollution were so bad.

Not a moment too soon, and hopefully this isn't just empty rhetoric because, as we recently mentioned, China's smog is getting close to «nuclear winter» bad...

As if the thick layer of smog blanketing Los Angeles wasn't bad enough, the beaches in L.A. County — though popular spots for the locals and tourists — are some of the most polluted in California.

(Note: Ozone is a good thing high up in the stratosphere, where it is naturally produced and blocks ultraviolate (UV) rays from harming life on Earth, but a bad thing in the troposphere, where it acts as main ingredient of smog and is harmful to breath and damages crops).

It's not a fossil fuel, but it has worse emissions (less green house gas but more lung damaging smog) and it uses more fossil fuel in it's production that it gives back.

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Scientists who look at the various chemicals floating around during bad air - quality days have pinpointed the reduction in peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), a «secondary pollutant present in photochemical smog», to explain why LA's pollution isn't quite as irritant to the eyes as before.