Embryo from a non-pollutant-resistant (left) versus pollutant-resistant (right) population, after exposure to pollution.
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Scalia: To be sure, carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and it can be an air pollutant.
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Will the Environmental Protection Agency choose to control one pollutant, while deregulating an equally hazardous pollutant?
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That's because the same pollutant that causes haze —fine particulate matter — is also the deadliest air pollutant.
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It's a long-term environmental pollutant that serves as a "raft that shuttles other pollutant in our water, food and bodies," Halden said.
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The strongest association between a pollutant and emphysema was seen with exposure to ozone, which was the only pollutant associated with an additional decline in lung function.
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But I always thought an air pollutant was something different from a stratospheric pollutant, and your claim here is not that the pollution of what we normally call "air" is endangering health.
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To study pollutant effects, we take advantage of differences in exposure due to geographical factors, such as a source of a pollutant located in one city but not another; temporal factors such as evaluating communities before and after hydrofracturing for shale gas; or idiosyncratic differences in exposure perhaps related to a pollutant-laden tanker overturning in a community.
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This is concerning because artificial light is an environmental pollutant.
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To say that that's a pollutant just boggles my mind.
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But carbon isn't just one pollutant from one product category.
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And carbon isn't the only pollutant trapped in the ice.
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The article misstated the potency of methane as a pollutant.
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The market for those permits sets the price of the pollutant.
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So is the use of mercury, a pollutant, to extract gold.
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It is not about any one pollutant or set of products.
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The EPA is considering whether to regulate levels of the pollutant.
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It's an irritating pollutant that exacerbates respiratory illnesses and heart problems.
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Jeuland also noted that, while the report counts mortality by each pollutant, there are possible overlaps — for example, someone exposed to both air pollution and water contamination — and actions to address one pollutant may not reduce mortality.
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Now Lyft says it wants to be less of a pollutant, too.
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Coal burnt in people's homes is the main pollutant in Polish towns.
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As a pollutant, their impact is much lower than less tangible menaces.
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"One of the major pollutant industries is the fashion industry," Levine says.
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Even China, the world's second-largest polluter, has introduced stricter pollutant controls.
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Main pollutant in Delhi for example is PM 2.5, which is dust.
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Mercury has been a major air pollutant and a byproduct of manufacturing.
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The Clean Water Act now regulates pollutant discharge into bodies of water.
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Even arctic ice is choked with a record amount of the pollutant.
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Nitrogen oxide is a pollutant that contributes to smog and poor air quality.
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Trump was the insurgent, the pollutant, the parasite the host would eventually reject.
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EPA, which declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant subject to EPA regulation.
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Stoiber said there's a misconception that hexavalent chromium is solely an industrial pollutant.
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Despite their notoriety as a major pollutant, plastics have important stories to tell.
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Those declines beat the target of a 3 percent reduction for each pollutant.
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Coupled with increased renewable generation, greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions will decline dramatically.
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"The issue was simply whether carbon was an environmental pollutant or not," he said.
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In the context of Nazi aesthetic politics, it was red-hot, a cultural pollutant.
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Further advances will enable near pollutant-free mobility; future fuels offer sustainable decarbonisation strategies.
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EPA, that carbon dioxide qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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It is an ambitious proposal to rein in a pollutant that has escaped regulation.
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Pruitt believes Congress should determine whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that needs regulation.
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Environmental Protection Agency decision forced the EPA to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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Methane is the primary component of natural gas and a powerful climate change pollutant.
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EPA, that ruled carbon dioxide was a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act.
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EPA, held that CO2 indeed qualified as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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Entergy has been seeking the State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System from the NYDEC ever since.
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Three-quarters of voters, and 61% of Republicans, support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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Sunlight—something our readers in Beijing may only dimly remember—is the best anti-pollutant.
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But Maher's team believes this particular pollutant could increase someone's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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If there's a nasty pollutant in your vicinity, VAVA will make sure to catch it.
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When a nutrient is called a pollutant, objectivity has been relegated to a dark corner.
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"Air Pollutant" devices would track particulates, ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen and sulfur dioxides, and more.
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It's also important to note that carbon isn't the only pollutant trapped in the ice.
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And 75 percent want the US government to regulate heat-trapping carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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EPA, held that carbon is a pollutant that could be subject to regulation under the law.
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In 2007 the Supreme Court declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, placing it under the EPA's remit.
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The legal question is whether greenhouse gases qualify as a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act.
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Detailed diagrams and formulas accompanied each rule to demonstrate the methods for measuring ambient pollutant concentrations.
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Cheney helped persuade Bush to abandon his campaign promise to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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If you are regulating clean air, you need a clear definition of what a pollutant is.
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Yep, it is a thing, actually a "pollutant that's also a portmanteau," thank you very much.
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Polystyrene, a common ocean pollutant, decomposes in sunlight much faster than thought, a new study finds.
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Oxford Street records very high levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), a pollutant caused by diesel engines.
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The endangerment finding — EPA's ruling that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant — is still in place.
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Monitoring of stations in the busiest areas of Hong Kong, including Central, Causeway Bay and Mongkok, revealed that the fine particle pollutant PM2.5 decreased by 32%, while the larger particle pollutant PM10 fell by up to 29%, and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was reduced by up to 22%.
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Prolonged exposure to high levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10, another pollutant, leads to respiratory illnesses.
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It's the first time this common air-borne pollutant has been directly associated with the human brain.
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If we fill this room with carbon dioxide, it could be an air pollutant that endangers health.
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Sunday's Air Pollutant Index in the Sabah area was 279, registering as "very unhealthy" on the scale.
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The EU's environmental arm is considering nominating the substance octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) as a Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP).
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Pollution is an immense problem in China (it has the most pollutant-filled skies in the world).
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In these, the main additional pollutant is sulphur dioxide, which has different chemical characteristics from hydrogen sulphide.
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Carbon dioxide is an odorless, invisible, harmless and completely natural gas lacking any characteristic of a pollutant.
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But maybe, she told me, there is something not quite right about her relationship to the pollutant.
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Those controls, called scrubbers, remove millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease.
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Coal ash is not the only pollutant to cause North Carolina woes in the wake of Florence.
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"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and it is not the driver of global warming," he said.
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That designation initiates the need for a permit under the Environmental Protection Agency's Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
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Maintain clean drinking water: As Americans, we generally enjoy clean, pollutant-free water flowing from our taps.
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His new plan says that he'll strengthen clean air and water rules and tighten health pollutant standards.
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"Hong Kong is being affected by an airstream with higher background pollutant concentrations," a department spokesman said.
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But if the EPA can't regulate the pollutant, those costly nuisance suits could become an issue again.
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"Ozone pollution is a powerful pollutant," Paul Billings, senior vice president of advocacy at the ALA told CNN.
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Burning a gallon of diesel gasoline spews about 22 pounds of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant.
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Ozone, another pollutant the report measures, has also gone dramatically down, mostly due to more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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The EPA is required to regulate climate-heating carbon emissions, which the agency has defined as a pollutant.
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Instead, it would become a "threshold pollutant," or one that causes harm only above a certain exposure level.
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Republicans and corporate executives support, and 72 nations have ratified, a pact to limit a powerful climate pollutant.
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For the average diesel car, each kilometer not driven avoids 52 milligrams of the pollutant entering the air.
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There was some good news: blood pollutant levels were lower in these women than in earlier national samples.
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Never mind that we've cut air pollutant emissions 73 percent since 1970 while the economy continues to grow.
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The rule would also open debate on whether the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate methane as a pollutant.
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The EPA regulates this pollutant because it has been associated with heart and lung diseases, and a shorter life.
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"Algae – maybe some pollutant in the water, but it's hard to say unless the water is tested," said Zalabak.
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Though don't expect a more detailed breakdown of the two pollutant categories; it's an aggregated mix in both cases.
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But its newest illustrious resident, a pollutant-sniffing robot eel named Envirobot, is in a class all its own.
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You need to understand how the system works, to understand why a pollutant has the effect that it has.
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The microplastic menace is a maddening conundrum: The pollutant shows up everywhere, but science knows very little about it.
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But more typically, laws that regulate pollutant discharge apply to pollutants like solid waste in general, not nurdles specifically.
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Researchers have measured pollutant levels on those buses, and they're five to 10 times higher than pollution levels elsewhere.
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An equivalent increase in exposure to ozone, an air pollutant, is associated with a 0.3% jump in such crimes.
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Nitrogen dioxide is a pollutant from burning fossil fuels and comes primarily from vehicles, power plants and industrial facilities.
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Now, EPA is preparing to review the hazardous air pollutant regulations governing more than 100 sterilizers around the country.
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It is well understood at this point that carbon dioxide is a deadly pollutant that is heating the atmosphere.
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Connecticut that individuals could not file nuisance lawsuits against CO2 polluters because the EPA was already regulating the pollutant.
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In the Mariana trench, Dr Jamieson found, amphipods dwelling at 10,250 metres yielded 495 nanograms per gram of the pollutant.
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The ranking is based on ozone pollution, an invisible pollutant the association said can damage lungs and even shorten life.
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PM2.5 is a closely monitored air pollutant because its small size allows the particles to lodge deep in the lungs.
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Once the complex becomes operational, the refinery will cease the production of high-sulphur fuel oil, which is heavily pollutant.
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They had the fish spawn in a laboratory and tested how the embryos fared against a pollutant called polychlorinated biphenyl.
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Methane is a global warming pollutant that is about 224 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
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Coal-rich Shanxi has vowed to cut its hazardous pollutant PM 2.5 concentration by 40 percent from October to March.
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As a consequence, according to EPA data, toxic cross-state pollutant emissions have already dropped by the millions of tons.
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The pollutant is a component of acid rain, which harms vegetation and wildlife, and is blamed for some respiratory illnesses.
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If you are breathing as you read this, you are emitting an officially designated dangerous pollutant, subject to federal regulation.
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In West Virginia, the largest inland waterway is being contaminated with selenium, a pollutant that can wipe out aquatic life.
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The agency also dropped plans for a similar panel of experts to help assess another dangerous pollutant, ground-level ozone.
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The Wheeler proposal would disallow any calculation of these side benefits and allow only those associated with the regulated pollutant.
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Before the decision, the EPA did not consider greenhouse gases — notably the invisible, potent gas carbon dioxide — an air pollutant.
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"There was no argument we made as states that mercury was not a hazardous air pollutant," Pruitt told lawmakers today.
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Nine states have set a cap on emissions from the power sector through auctioning off carbon pollutant permits to companies.
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The demonstration comes a day before a debate in parliament on nitrous oxide, a pollutant that comes mostly from soil.
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EPA, the Supreme Court found that carbon dioxide is eligible for classification as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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It makes something called Air Multiplier tech possible, circulating 013 percent pollutant-free air through room up to 400 square feet.
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It's also a natural anti-pollutant that fights skin aging, which is all the explanation you need for its "miraculous" reputation.
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The pollutant that has the effect of a "sunburn on the lung," as the report describes it, thrives in warmer air.
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In the region surrounding the Porter Ranch leak, concentrations of the invisible pollutant are two to up to 67 times higher.
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Rather than imposing a fee, it caps the total amount of a pollutant and issues tradable permits under that (declining) cap.
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The Trump administration is planning to formally consider major new restrictions on a key pollutant produced by heavy-duty diesel trucks.
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Cigarette filters are the No. 1 plastic pollutant Cigarette butts containing plastic filters are the most littered item in the world.
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"While we support effective, affordable, reasonable and direct controls on conventional environmental pollutants, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant," it says.
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But the new rules, if implemented, would scarcely make a dent in the emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing pollutant.
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A 2014 study found that people of color live in communities that have more nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that exacerbates asthma.
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It also is a pollutant that can increase the risk of asthma, inflammation of the lungs and other harmful health conditions.
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It also is a pollutant that can increase the risk of asthma, inflammation of the lungs and other harmful health issues.
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And if they pick up something interesting, such as a spike in a pollutant, they're programmed to do additional scans automatically.
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When the industry is energy and the pollutant, methane, is invisible to the naked eye, it seems to take an awful lot.
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Methane is a fast-acting climate pollutant–more than 603 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time frame.
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Most Americans -- 69% -- also support strict CO2 limits on coal-fired power plants; and three-quarters want CO2 regulated as a pollutant.
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The result was cars that emitted some 40 times the U.S. limits of nitrogen oxides, a pollutant that can harm people's health.
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The little scientists know about plastic suggests that although it is the most noticeable pollutant, it is far from the most harmful.
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Warmer waters, increased precipitation and pollutant runoff made way for toxic algae blooms and brown tide, ultimately depleting the water of oxygen.
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One common measure is the annual average concentration of a given pollutant, which is typically compared against the World Health Organisation's guidelines.
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The estimates of premature deaths prevented by pollutant reduction are extremely questionable because they are based on studies that are not replicable.
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If equipment to control pollution reduces more than one pollutant or increases some while reducing others, decisionmakers need to consider that information.
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Air pollution kills more people each year than smoking — but it's not the only dangerous pollutant you encounter on a daily basis
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The EPA finalized its methane rule in early 28500 as part of an Obama administration effort to reduce emissions of the pollutant.
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Led by NOAA chemist Stephen Montzka, the team outlined the steady decrease of the pollutant in the atmosphere from 2002 to 2012.
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"She's said that believing in climate change is 'a kind of paganism' and dismissed carbon dioxide as a pollutant," the ad says.
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Suslick, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, had previously developed a pollutant-sniffing nose used for biomedical purposes.
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That kind of pollutant can come from a variety of sources, including coal-fired power plants, truck tailpipes, wildfires and dust storms.
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That rule would have restricted coal plants' emission of a different pollutant: carbon dioxide, one of the chief causes of global warming.
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Now the administration's effort to use the Clean Air Act to reduce a dangerous air pollutant is under attack in the courts.
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The consciousness isn't a pollutant that needs to be flushed from the system; it's the fuel and animating urgency of the encounter.
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For instance, coal companies and a number of states openly fight efforts by the EPA to monitor and regulate CO2 as a pollutant.
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EPA that greenhouse gases qualify as an "air pollutant" under the act, if the EPA found it was a danger to public health.
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Pruitt's opinion is also concerning since the EPA is supposed to regulate CO2 as a pollutant that's causing the world to heat up.
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Methane is a potent global warming pollutant, and the Trump administration was seeking to lower the regulatory burden on oil and gas producers.
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As reported in the Journal of Investigative Medicine, the researchers divided the patients into four groups depending on the level of pollutant exposure.
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Unlike the Paris deal, which included broad, voluntary pledges to cut emissions, the Rwanda deal covers a single pollutant and is legally binding.
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In one study, researchers at San Diego State University measured thirdhand smoke pollutant levels in smokers&apos homes after they&aposd moved out.
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Whatever the outcome, the EPA retains the right to regulate carbon dioxide: the justices ensured that by declaring it a pollutant in 2007.
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Reynolds also told Insider that one of her favorite skin-care products is the Shu Uemura Anti/Oxi+ Pollutant & Dullness Clarifying Cleansing Oil.
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But interviews and records show that the new rules, if implemented, would scarcely make a dent in emissions of the cancer-causing pollutant.
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When that happened, the cars spewed as much as 40 times the allowed amounts of nitrogen oxides, a pollutant that poses health hazards.
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But more importantly, and more commonly, pet poop can quickly become a bacterial pollutant that will slowly eat away at everything around it.
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An earlier version of this article mischaracterized a type of pollutant analyzed in a study on air pollution and cognitive performance in China.
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Most glitter is made with plastic, and when it drifts into a landfill or down a drain, it can become a microplastic pollutant.
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But Democrats, environmentalists and public health groups have opposed efforts to hobble ozone rules, because the pollutant contributes to health issues like asthma.
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Oil producers have also lobbied for the phasing out of coal in favor of the less pollutant natural gas in the power sector.
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It would eliminate the need for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for using pesticides already approved for use under FIFRA.
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A new study shows that when a pregnant woman breathes in black carbon, the pollutant can travel from her lungs to her placenta.
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And because methane traps heat at roughly 84 times the rate of carbon dioxide, it is a particularly potent, "super-pollutant" greenhouse gas.
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Refined coal investors tend to target mercury as the second pollutant for cuts, according to disclosures by the corporations involved in the program.
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Eight cities recorded their highest number of days with unhealthy spikes in particle pollution since the nation began monitoring this pollutant 20 years ago.
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It's the foundation of the agency's authority to regulate carbon emissions as an air pollutant, and has been backed up by the Supreme Court.
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Barcelona consistently failed to meet EU guidelines on levels of Nitrogen Oxide—a pollutant associated with traffic, particularly diesel engines—according to local press.
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Here, they use YAG lasers that efficiently kill bacteria, vaporize grime and pollutant particles, improve texture, radiance, and clarity, and help firm up skin.
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By far the most important GHG in terms of the radiative properties of the troposphere is water vapor; does anyone call it a pollutant?
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Often called "carbon," which is like calling H2O "hydrogen," there's a reason botanists pump it into greenhouses: it's not a pollutant but plant food.
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Andrew Wheeler, the EPA's acting chief, rolled out a report Tuesday finding that key air pollutant levels continued to fall in 2017, including ozone.
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He would also roll back ozone smog standards, negating their role in spurring tighter controls on air pollutant emissions from transportation and industrial sources.
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At the time, carbon dioxide, the nontoxic but heat-trapping gas that is the chief cause of global warming, was not considered a pollutant.
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Critics of the Obama administration's tightened standards on surface-level ozone have endorsed a House package to reform how the government regulates the pollutant.
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The greatest decline of the toxic pollutant was in Europe and North America, offsetting increases in Asia, the agency said, citing an international study.
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At other times Volkswagen diesels emitted many times the allowed amounts of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant linked to serious lung ailments and premature death.
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EPA, which ruled that the Clean Air Act must cover carbon dioxide as a pollutant if it is ruled dangerous (which it subsequently was).
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It also might be the only place in England where curry is categorized not just as an entree, but also as an environmental pollutant.
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Supporters of the bill say it would help localities comply with existing ozone standards before federal regulators issue newer, stricter limits on the pollutant.
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Cap and trade is a market-based mechanism where a cap is set on a particular pollutant and emission permits are bought and traded.
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The case relates to health damages caused by excess emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), a smog-forming pollutant linked to lung and heart disease.
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Plains was indicted on 46 criminal charges as a result of the spill, including four felonies for knowingly discharging a pollutant into state waters.
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ViaeX: ViaeX creates biological nanofiltration systems for water and air which are 400% more efficient than current solutions and enable selective pollutant and bacteria targeting.
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In addition, levels of carbon dioxide, the longest-lived global warming pollutant, hit record levels this year, at the highest in all of human history.
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But that solution will not work in the United States because of stricter limits on nitrogen oxide, a pollutant linked to lung ailments and smog.
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Last year, emissions were only 13 percent lower than 1990 levels in the Netherlands, which is among the most pollutant countries in the Europe Union.
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PM is a type of air pollutant that consists of small particles, from tiny molecular clusters to the dust or pollen that we can see.
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But there's now a circle-shaped LCD screen on the base that can cycle through various pollutant levels like smoke, pollen, or fumes from vehicles.
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For the past three years, global emissions of carbon dioxide, which is the chief global warming pollutant, have remained level while economic output has risen.
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Provincial level At the provincial level, China's use of drones has allowed it to supplement and bolster its pollutant monitoring services and border patrol units.
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The situation was the same with pollutants "when the pollutant travels through groundwater with a direct hydrological connection to the receiving surface waters," they wrote.
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Simply put, would you willingly volunteer to be exposed to a pollutant, not to see what good it does, but what harm it might cause?
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In essence, the ambition is to eliminate coal usage in the "2+23" cities and dramatically cut the emission of just about every other pollutant.
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In the heart of West Virginia's coal country, the state's largest inland waterway is being contaminated with a pollutant that can wipe out aquatic life.
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The pollutant, known as PM10, was defined in the study as particulate matter smaller than 10 micrometers in diameter, not between 2.5 and 10 micrometers.
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A study in January found that the country's methane emissions were rising despite attempts by the government to crack down on the climate-changing pollutant.
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We already know that it's a climate pollutant and that it can cause inflammation in humans, which can in turn lead to other health problems.
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"It uses electric power for its main drive, so this source is cleaner and doesn't emit any kind of fossil pollutant or carbon dioxide," Arenas added.
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Britain has some of the highest levels in Europe of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide, which is produced by diesel vehicles, and has already breached EU limits.
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The CNN-AQI is given as an integer value, corresponding to five concentrations bands that are specific to each pollutant as defined in the table below.
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"It's absurd that one of Scott Pruitt's first acts is to refuse information on a dangerous pollutant," said Melinda Pierce, legislative director at the Sierra Club.
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That isn't, that isn't — your assertion is that after the pollutant leaves the air and goes up into the stratosphere it is contributing to global warming.
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The agency labeled clean water as a pollutant, harassed farmers and property owners, and attempted to ban lead in ammunition and fishing tackle, among many things.
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Supporters of the measure say the EPA's five-year review schedule for the pollutant moves too fast for states and cities that are out of compliance.
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It is not a "pollutant," and it certainly is not "carbon" or "carbon pollution," the propaganda terms used more frequently in the debate over climate policy.
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"So every time you have a little bit of microplastic, the problem is the plastic itself, but also the pollutant that is attached to the plastic."
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A pair of Democratic senators is pressing Volkswagen to offer a "generous" compensation fund for victims of its efforts to circumvent federal air pollutant emission standards.
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"This is not just a job for government, local authorities or business – as individuals we can all do our part to reduce pollutant exposure," Goddard added.
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The pollutant is noticeably lower in concentration in much of California, where places including the Bay Area and Central Valley have implemented stricter social distancing guidelines.
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Sedimentary layers The tricky bit about microplastic pollution is that little is known about how the pollutant might be affecting organisms, and in turn whole ecosystems.
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But these findings may not be generalizable to all children, since researchers only studied 40 children and focused on pollutant exposure during a slim prenatal window.
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The center recommended fully implementing 'existing Army policies, programs and procedures for lead-exposure reduction' and including lead 'as a priority pollutant in … pollution prevention programs.
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And most dramatically of all, concentrations of another pollutant released by burning fossil fuels called nitrogen dioxide — pictured below — are down also about 40 percent. 3.
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Breathing in pollutant-filled air is dangerous: it can exacerbate asthma and other respiratory conditions, and can increase risk for stroke, heart disease, and some cancers.
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Rio for years has surpassed WHO limits for the most dangerous air pollutant - called particulate matter (PM) - spewed from millions of vehicles clogging the city's roads.
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Arsenic is a potential groundwater pollutant, and an estimated 200 million people worldwide live in areas with higher-than-safe arsenic levels in their drinking water.
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What I didn't know until I began working on children's health issues is that the mercury in our food starts as a pollutant in our air.
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A Department of Environmental Conservation investigation in March found that the lake was contaminated with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS, a pollutant used in fire fighting foam.
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The CookFox architectural studio has air monitors in its office, and fresh air is pumped into spaces when carbon dioxide and pollutant levels become too high.
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That's because reducing mercury emissions with refined coal is a cost-effective way for plants to comply with other, relatively new EPA regulations governing the pollutant.
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When researchers compared satellite maps that measured nitrogen oxide air pollutant trends between 2005-2009 with measurements taken between 2011-2015, the researchers found a glaring discrepancy.
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While methane can be short-lived as a climate pollutant, it is considered at least 25 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.
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The House's version basically says the EPA can't regulate a pollutant from power plants under 20303(d) if it already regulates other pollutants from those power plants.
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The decision that carbon should be regulated as a pollutant enormously expanded the EPA's regulatory powers and its ability to enact regulations and penalties for polluting companies.
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Whether or not Pruitt is ideologically on board with regulating CO2 as a pollutant, he has made it clear he intends to work within the existing laws.
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The fossil fuel has long been derided by Democrats and the left as a toxic pollutant, but it's also been the backbone of the West Virginian economy.
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The H2S, a noxious pollutant, must be scrubbed from the power-station exhaust before it is released, and the researchers worked with remainder, almost pure carbon dioxide.
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Possible Impediments to Solar Energy Growth Legislation such as the Clean Air Act passed in 1955 favor renewable energy production as it comes with no pollutant emissions.
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Numerous localities around the country have found PFAS in their water supplies in recent years, and the EPA is considering whether to regulate levels of the pollutant.
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All the way back in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide qualifies as a pollutant that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
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The company claims that, by 2020, this would reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions by about 20083 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.
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The state's move has been cheered by environmentalists, who have long lobbied for more expansive solutions to a pollutant whose toxicity was first suspected in the 1930s.
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While methane can be short-lived as a climate pollutant, it is considered at least 1203 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.
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Thursday's agenda will consist of legislation that would exempt the brick making industry from having to comply with Clean Air Act regulations for air pollutant emission standards.
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The next time a study shows a chemical or pollutant is dangerous to our children's health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be unable to act. Why?
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Ultimately, a push towards alternative fuels such as natural gas, biofuels, electricity and hydrogen would be necessary to drastically cut fuel use, carbon dioxide and pollutant emissions.
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Human exposure will vary depending on promixity and intensity, but the pollutant particles will remain "for a long time" in zones that had intense blazes, she said.
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"Electric vehicles come with zero pollutant emissions at the tailpipe — there's no tailpipe," Pierpaolo Cazzola, a senior energy and transport analyst at the IEA, told Sustainable Energy.
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During one hookah session, many liters of smoke filled with large quantities of the pollutant particulate matter are inhaled at higher concentrations than cigarettes, the report says.
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Oporto found that the chain of returned goods uses 1.2 billion gallons of diesel fuel and emits 12 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, a global warming pollutant.
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In fact, the cars emitted as much as 40 times the allowable amount of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant linked to lung ailments, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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They emit sulfur dioxide, a pollutant linked to respiratory illnesses, as well as carbon dioxide and methane, gases which cause global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere.
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In fact, Crain's reports that approximately 20 percent of pollutant PM2.5s—particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns wide—come from street and brick-and-mortar charbroiling of meats.
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The global reputation of Germany's car industry has been tarnished by a series of scandals involving schemes to conceal the true levels of pollutant emissions from diesel cars.
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Of course, wild orcas face their own stresses, including food shortages and pollutant exposure, but none are as persistent and all-consuming as those that captive whales endure.
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Waste can leak into the groundwater, it can leak into nearby bodies of water, so instead of that waste being a benefit, it can actually be a pollutant.
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A new Yale University study shows that a strong majority of Americans trust science experts on global warming and, most importantly, support regulating carbon emissions as a pollutant.
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The Clean Water Act lets circuit courts hear lawsuits first only if the cases challenge a federal government limit on a pollutant discharge or a federal permit decision.
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Coal-rich Shanxi province has vowed to cut its hazardous pollutant PM 2.5 concentration by 40 percent from October to March, state media agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
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If our largest environmental problems are the result of something going wrong, some pollutant spewing unchecked from smokestack or exhaust pipe, then he's simply an interesting historical curiosity.
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The annual limit for nitrogen dioxide was exceeded within the first five days of 28503 in London, where the pollutant is estimated to kill 22019,900 people per year.
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And they failed in barring the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases as a pollutant in a 2007 case in which Legates, Lupo, and Christy, among other scientists, intervened.
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Nigeria, Togo, Ivory Coast and Benin promised in late 2657 to ban the use of fuel packed with sulphur that is a major air pollutant, particularly in cities.
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China's air pollutant levels fell by about 20-30% in February as a result of the restrictions on industry and traffic, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
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Its primary purpose is far less glamorous: More than 0003 percent of the world's palladium is used in the catalytic converters that help vehicles manage their pollutant output.
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" He added: "Industry petitioners focus on the reduction in hazardous air pollutant emissions attributable to the regulations, which amount to only $4 to $6 million dollars each year.
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As with the Clean Air Act's vague definition of "pollutant," the idea was that regulators' understanding of system risk and stability would evolve over time, as would regulations.
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These days, however, Mr. Shlafman and Mr. Morena are united against a common threat — environmentalists who want to abolish the pollutant-producing ovens where the bagels are made.
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Researchers at Hasselt University in Belgium in a study reported in Nature Communications found sootlike black carbon, a type of particle pollutant, on placentas donated by new mothers.
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Billionaire hedge-fund manager Chris Hohn is trying to stop banks from funding coal plants in an effort to limit the use of the pollutant heavy power source.
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Radiation is not scientifically linked to asthma, but the Navy&aposs cleanup efforts on the island have also exhumed dioxins, a pollutant that can exacerbate asthma and bronchitis.
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Particulate matter, or PM, is a type of air pollutant that consists of small particles, from tiny molecular clusters to the dust or pollen that we can see.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese methane emissions are rising at an alarming rate despite recent government regulations aimed at curbing the climate-changing pollutant, a new report has revealed.
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Particulate matter, or PM, is a type of air pollutant consisting of small particles of different sizes -- from tiny molecular clusters to dust or pollen that we can see.
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Scandals involving schemes to conceal the true levels of pollutant emissions from diesel cars has dealt repeated blows to the global reputation of Germany's car industry in recent years.
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The dual-action HEPA filter keeps small rooms pollutant-free and odor-free (and adds a fresh scent because obviously, it's Febreze) without taking up room on the floor.
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Scandals involving schemes to conceal the true levels of pollutant emissions from diesel cars have dealt repeated blows to the global reputation of Germany's car industry in recent years.
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Instead, the Obama White House turned to its regulatory authorities by relying on the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act.
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In January NGT fined Volkswagen 1 billion rupees in a separate case relating to excess emissions of nitrogen oxide, a smog-forming pollutant linked to lung and heart disease.
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Madigan also alleged in a Cook County court that the Trump Tower's permit to use the water under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System expired nearly a year ago.
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Madigan also alleged in a Cook County court that the Trump Tower's permit to use the water under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System expired nearly a year ago.
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The bill requires the military to phase out use of foam with PFAS by 2025 and would also designate PFAS as a toxic pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
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"This holds great promise for managing noise as the pervasive ocean pollutant it has become," Michael Jasny, director of the group's marine mammal protection project, said in a statement.
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The bill requires the military to phase out use of foam with PFAS by 85033 and would also designate PFAS as a toxic pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
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Last year, Volkswagen admitted to installing software in diesel vehicles sold since 2009 that let them emit up to 40 times the allowed amount of nitrous oxide, a pollutant.
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"It's actually taking something that is a massive pollutant on our planet, which is plastic bottles, and its finding a way to repurpose that," Watson said in the interview.
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Talking on the phone for others to overhear, especially in a work environment, has become at best an etiquette issue, and at worst, what Mr. Saval calls a pollutant.
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China, the world's coal juggernaut, has continued to produce more methane emissions from its coal mines despite its pledge to curb the planet-warming pollutant, according to new research.
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While lawmakers didn't have climate change in mind when they drafted the law, they defined "air pollutant" broadly, so that the law could accommodate new environmental threats over time.
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Consider: If it is true that CO2 is a harmful pollutant, then the fact that companies are not being charged for emitting it means that markets are working ineffectively.
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Now, a team of researchers is asserting that the plague had an unexpected impact: clearing the air of a toxic pollutant for the first time in over a thousand years.
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Courts are likely to look skeptically on the EPA issuing a weak, toothless provision that will not reduce an air pollutant it has identified as a threat to public health.
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But the Supreme Court found that the Clean Air Act had a "capacious" definition of "air pollutant," and that due to climate change, carbon dioxide fit well within that category.
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The microplastics program is in its very early stages, but it could turn into a one-of-a-kind platform for testing how this omnipresent pollutant might be stressing ecosystems.
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Overall, a majority of Republicans —and 54 percent of conservative Republicans— support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, according to a joint-survey done by Yale and George Mason University.
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The study found that a cigarette butt can cut down the germination, or development, of plants, adding to concerns about discarded cigarette remnants as an under-acknowledged, but widespread, pollutant.
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It would also slow down the review schedule for EPA air pollutant rules and give regulators the chance to consider cost — not just public health impacts — when reviewing those rules.
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"We concentrate on [nitrogen dioxide] in this paper as it is a significant gaseous pollutant across the U.K., emitted from road traffic and energy production processes," the study authors wrote.
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By almost doubling gas mileage and halving emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, the Obama standard is the biggest single step taken against climate change in history.
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In a landmark 2007 case, in contrast, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA was not entitled to Chevron deference in deciding whether to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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White replied, "It's likely that CO2 has some influence on the climate," but added that carbon dioxide did not have the characteristics of a pollutant that directly affects human health.
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The suit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit petitioned the court to review the final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the EPA.
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Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing a statewide ban on single-use food containers and packing peanuts made of polystyrene, a pollutant that is not biodegradable and is difficult to recycle.
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The measures will also improve air quality and keep Americans healthier because the wasted natural gas is mostly methane — a powerful air pollutant that contributes to smog and climate change.
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The feeds given to cattle are grown with petroleum-based fertilizers, and the animals' digestive systems produce methane, a pollutant 25 times as damaging to the environment as carbon dioxide.
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"For most plants, and for the animals and humans that use them, more carbon dioxide, far from being a 'pollutant' in need of reduction, would be a benefit," he wrote.
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The Supreme Court unleashed a fury of regulation and litigation when it ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases are an air pollutant that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
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Ten oil refineries had levels of the pollutant benzene that were above the government's "action level" at their fence lines as of September of last year, according to a new report.
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As the New Republic points out, there's also another benefit to Mylan that comes from pumping a horrible pollutant into the air: It manufactures two different drugs that treat pulmonary problems.
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The legal basis for the regulation was thought to lie in a ruling by the Supreme Court in 2007, which declared CO2 a pollutant, thereby placing it under the EPA's remit.
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The Tribune reported that the Trump Tower is the only property on the Chicago River regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System that has not submitted the required environmental data.
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He's also a climate change denier who has called carbon dioxide "not a pollutant," has noted that the Earth "quit warming," and has speculated that "dinosaur flatulence" caused previous warming events.
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A coalition of electric utilities had said the looser rules were not needed since they have already invested billions of dollars in technology to cut emissions of the pollutant and comply.
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They include companies tackling drug discovery using digital twin cells, environmental pollutant monitoring, and artificial brain development for robotics applications, to name just a few (that last one was a mouthful).
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In 2016, a 1.3 billion-gallon reservoir in Newburgh, New York, tested positive for a dangerous pollutant called perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), which has been linked to cancer and chronic kidney disease.
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Now, without the work of that panel, it is entirely likely that the advisory committee will lack the time and expertise to provide authoritative guidance on the regulation of this pollutant.
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But tradition in a sport that began more than 1,500 years ago forbids women from entering the ring as the space is sacred and any female presence is considered a pollutant.
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On Monday, the levels of PM2.5, the most harmful form of pollutant, were 22 times the accepted safety level — the equivalent of smoking more than a pack of cigarettes a day.
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On Monday, the levels of PM2.5, the most harmful form of pollutant, were 22 times the accepted safety level — the equivalent of smoking more than a pack of cigarettes a day.
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In 22, a leading air quality expert found the world's highest concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO220) on Oxford Street, a pollutant generated by diesel fumes that causes lung disease and respiratory problems.
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A pair genes from the pollutant-resistant Gulf killifish, including a segment with deleted DNA that seemed to account for the resistance, appeared to come directly from another species, the Atlantic killifish.
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If someone like Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn doesn't believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that traps heat in the atmosphere, then why would she support efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions?
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The EPA finalized its methane rule in early 2016 as part of an Obama administration effort to reduce emissions of the pollutant, which has significantly more global warming potential than carbon dioxide.
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Engine technology called selective catalytic reduction (SCR) uses DEF to trigger a chemical reaction that converts nitrogen oxides, a pollutant, into natural components of air that are then expelled through the tailpipe.
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The rule allows transfers of waters from one body to another without a permit under the Clean Water Act if there is no intervening pollutant added through the transfer or a treatment.
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Reports about pollutant dust filtered by the tower being used to make diamonds made it sound too good to be true: a mega-bling vending machine sucking smog then firing out sparklers.
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The software, known as a defeat device, conceals the cars' emissions of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to the creation of smog and ozone and causes health issues like asthma attacks.
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In 2006, the Bush EPA refused to regulate power plant emissions on the grounds that it did not have Clean Air Act authority to regulate CO2, because it was not a pollutant.
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Specifically, it would have been nice if Clinton had during the debate reiterated her support for continuing the Environmental Protection Agency's policy under the Obama administration of aggressively regulating carbon as a pollutant.
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Dr Zhang speculates that pollutant damage is probably accumulating in the white matter of the brain, which people depend upon more heavily for verbal tasks; and men have less white matter than women.
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Under pressure from the European Commission, which is threatening to penalize member states that breach EU rules on pollutant emissions, Germany has proposed a series of interim measures, also including low emissions zones.
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Since Massachusetts v EPA, a Supreme Court ruling issued in 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been legally required to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions, which the ruling classified as a dangerous pollutant.
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Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, is estimated to be the world's second-largest contributor of plastic pollutant in the oceans after China, according to a 2015 study published in "Science" journal.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that greenhouse gases are a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, a decision it has stood by three times, starting with the landmark 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA.
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They complained that he wasn't speaking strongly enough against climate science; wasn't acting quickly enough to repeal regulations; and had not acted to undo the EPA's categorization of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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Would anyone seriously want to trade the brilliantly inventive Silicon Valley for a coal-burning, smog-smearing, pollutant-choking heavy industrial sector that even the Chinese government is desperate to get rid of?
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In an ideal world, legal ambiguities — like whether to regulate broadband services as common carriers or whether carbon dioxide should be regulated as a pollutant — would be resolved by Congress passing new legislation.
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For accelerant, Mr. Rush squirts napalm into the grill, while, because of a chemical pollutant upstream, the nearby river runs red, cheered on by the local high schoolers, whose team color it is.
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In the suit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Monday, the attorney general, Lisa Madigan, alleged that even though Trump Tower's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit expired on Aug.
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While not a greenhouse gas itself, the pollutant originates from the same activities and industrial sectors that are responsible for a large share of the world's carbon emissions and that drive global heating.
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The level of carbon dioxide — which the Supreme Court and the Environmental Protection Agency have labeled as a "pollutant" — in the Earth's atmosphere is the highest it has been in all of human history.
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The former is pretty simple, with a handheld form factor that can sit on a desk or be attached something like a stroller, serving up a stream of air freshly stripped of pollutant particles.
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"This announces the EPA will replace the 2015 pollutant limits for two major waste streams," Betsy Southerland, former director of science and technology in the EPA's Office of Water, told BuzzFeed News via email.
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One level deeper: Tuesday's announcement is expected to preview an update to rules that set the standards for nitrogen oxides, a pollutant that contributes to smog and poor air quality, E&E News reports.
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The shipping industry is under intense pressure to slash its sulfur emissions, given the pollutant is a component of acid rain, which harms vegetation and wildlife, and contributes to the acidification of the oceans.
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Its levels of ozone, a pollutant which can damage lung tissue and cause breathing difficulties, are the highest of any city in Mexico and well beyond the recommended limits of the World Health Organisation.
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"The primary pollutant sources in Jakarta are mostly traffic and industry, while in Palembang, it is mainly from peat land burning," said Hsiang-He Lee of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will extend by one year a deadline for states to comply with a major Obama-era regulation on emissions of a smog-causing pollutant that spews from tailpipes and smokestacks.
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My own party was in control then, and it went all the way up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States decided that, yes, greenhouse gases is a pollutant.
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The panel's 1965 report, "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment," included an appendix on "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide," laying out, with much alarm, the consequences of "the invisible pollutant" for the planet as a whole.
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The entire industry is under intense pressure to slash its sulfur emissions, given the pollutant is a component of acid rain, which harms vegetation and wildlife and is also blamed for some respiratory illnesses.
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This thick air pollutant only made up about 2% of the 0.3 teragrams of smoke from the wildfire, but it had an outsized effect on the plume because it absorbs so much solar radiation.
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" A spokesman for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which provided the AP with the data regarding the EPA's enforcement of pollutant cases in 2018, said that the agency's investigative unit "is lacking a pulse.
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EPA, held that if the EPA determined carbon dioxide is a pollutant causing harm to human health and welfare, then it is empowered to regulate it under the 1992 amendments of the Clean Air Act.
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Spend too long thinking like this, and you'll end up concluding that a complete, healthy body is good, and any ugly, broken, or deformed body is a pollutant that needs to be got rid of.
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Pregnant women in Vancouver who were exposed to the highest level of environmental nitric oxide, an airborne, traffic-related pollutant, were more likely to give birth to children later diagnosed with autism, the researchers say.
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The shipping industry is under intense pressure to slash its sulfur emissions because the pollutant has a negative effect on human health and is a component of acid rain — which harms vegetation and aquatic species.
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The term "double-counted" refers to the EPA's habit of saying that a new regulation will reduce a given pollutant in the air, even though a different regulation, already on the books, has done so.
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Another pollutant, PM10, was a direct threat to runners, as it is inhaled in large amounts when people breathe through the mouth while running, although it is filtered out through the nose when breathing normally.
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The province will create a pollutant discharge license system covering all polluting enterprises, while industrial capacity expansion will be restricted and no new coal, steel, cement or plate glass projects will be approved, it added.
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Under International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules, ships, from this month, must use fuel with a sulfur content of just 0.5% - down from 3.5% - or install devices known as scrubbers that strip out the toxic pollutant.
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But as Richard Newell, president of an environmental economics think tank called Resources for the Future, pointed out to me, carbon dioxide is a global pollutant that has impacts everywhere, regardless of where it's emitted.
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The 2,284 women included in the current analysis were enrolled during their first trimester and gave a blood sample at that time, which Mendola and her colleagues were able to use to measure pollutant exposure.
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They voted as they did despite the tremendous importance of chastity for the Catholic Church and the old idea that sexual activity is a pollutant that cannot be allowed near the holy ritual of the mass.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Green groups on Friday slammed U.S. President Donald Trump for choosing a nominee for White House environmental panel who wrote in an opinion article last year that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
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The installation has a whiff of the absurd: for example, the instructional video, in which a work-suited EPA agent wipes pollutant residue off a plant's leaf with a cotton swab, recalls an after school special.
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While more research is needed to prove whether textile dust directly causes rheumatoid arthritis, the findings suggest factory workers might benefit from respiratory protections that prevent or minimize inhalation of this pollutant, Bengtsson added by email.
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Although many countries are making progress in slowing their emissions of carbon dioxide, a global warming pollutant, the amount of the gas in the air surged at a record pace in 23.6, a new report found.
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Cheaper and abundant gas supplies in the United States and China's drive to switch to cleaner feedstock for its power plants led to a 1.7 percent drop in demand for coal, the most pollutant fossil fuel.
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Today's widespread interest in breath analysis stems from the relatively recent discovery -- within the past 20 years or so -- that nitric oxide, a common pollutant, works as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, Risby observes.
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Not only would these additional efforts create jobs and reduce pollutant emissions from fossil fuel infrastructure, but they would also help enhance energy independence and energy security, another set of priorities the President emphasized on Tuesday.
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The fact that children living in poverty experienced greater negative effects from air pollution also proved that both the pollutant and neighborhood conditions combine to create "synergistic effects on psychiatric symptom severity and frequency," said Brokamp.
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The reason is that it has not been possible so far to acquire enough observations of SO22 worldwide in order to perform the quality assurance of the CAMS forecasts for this pollutant and properly assess their quality.
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Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is an atmospheric pollutant that is particularly problematic in the Arctic region, where it darkens snow and ice, making them retain more warmth and melt faster.
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Lung function is affected after over two months of daily exposure to an index reading below 200, Haryanto said, but gasoline emissions, a frequent pollutant in Jakarta, can be linked to cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, besides cancer.
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These statements go beyond his previous expressions of doubt regarding mainstream climate science findings, and indicate that the person responsible for regulating carbon dioxide does not believe that this pollutant is much of a problem after all.
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The Interior Department is working on rules to limit methane emissions from oil and gas wells on federal land, while other agencies, including the Agriculture Department, are working on their own voluntary efforts to reduce the pollutant.
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The methane rule — which targets a pollutant with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide — is seen as a major step President Obama can take to address climate change in his final year in office.
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The case: This case came about in 1999, when Massachusetts, 11 other states, and several environmental organizations petitioned for the EPA to start regulating carbon dioxide coming out of new motor vehicles, since it was a pollutant.
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All the local environmental audit teams have been disbanded and, as the "2+26" city directive warns, if any local official, department or government is found wanting in anti-pollutant enthusiasm, "suggestions for accountability should be made".
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To the Editor: Re "Don't Let a Killer Pollutant Loose," by John Balmes (Op-Ed, April 15): I agree with Dr. Balmes about recent troubling efforts to undermine established evidence showing the grave dangers of air pollution.
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It's the first bridge in the world to be constructed entirely of self-cleaning concrete: It's made of titanium dioxide which, when exposed to sunlight, captures pollutant particles from the air and cleans its own concrete surfaces.
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The burns are allowed by the EPA and state environment regulators based on permits that use computer models to estimate the rate of pollutant released and to calculate whether those emissions are going to make people sick.
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President Trump in October appointed Ms. White, a former Texas environmental regulator who has said that carbon dioxide should be considered the "gas of life" rather than a pollutant, to be the White House senior environmental adviser.
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For 60 years before the enactment of the Clean Water Act, which established the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, pesticides like those that control mosquito populations were regulated exclusively under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
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In a cruel twist of pollutant irony, the bulk of the work was meant to be shown at the Haliç Shipyards, only to have a report of asbestos leave the organizers venue-less a month before opening day.
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Back in 2007, when the Supreme Court held that CO2 was a pollutant that could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Republicans bemoaned the "regulatory train wreck" that would come from just EPA Clean Air Act regulation.
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"Methane is a really bad pollutant, it tends to have a bigger impact closer in than carbon, it doesn't go as far," said former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, in an interview with Mashable.
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But there's an even more powerful, if lesser-known, greenhouse gas: Methane, which is 84 times more potent as a climate pollutant than CO20111 over a 20-year period, according to the environmental nonprofit David Suzuki Foundation (DSF).
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For particles smaller than 2.5 microns, another major pollutant in big cities, produced by car engines and the burning of fuel for heating, the daily average limit is two-and-a-half times higher than the annual limit.
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The big picture: The authors caution that more research needs to be done before any regulations can be passed because it's still not clear what specific products are the largest polluters, or if any one pollutant stands out.
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The study led by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England found that a cigarette butt can cut down the germination, or development, of plants, adding to concerns about discarded cigarette remnants as an under-acknowledged, but widespread, pollutant.
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Congress is not about to get into the weeds of rule-making—how many parts per million of this or that pollutant can end up in drinking water—even if it were more functional than it currently is.
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The House version of the legislation said the agency could not regulate a new pollutant under one section of the law (the one it is relying on now) if it were already regulating other pollutants under another section.
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Speaking on behalf of the Brown administration, Mary D. Nichols, the chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, said her agency had been working on regulations for methane as a short-lived climate pollutant when the leak occurred.
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Hours after saying he does not believe carbon dioxide is a "primary contributor" to climate change, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency said he doesn't know whether the EPA has the legal right to regulate the pollutant.
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While producers of the fossil fuel have been championing "clean coal" technology that reduces pollutant emissions into the atmosphere, non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace says such methods still produce pollution that is simply disposed elsewhere in the environment.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says he is not convinced carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and wants Congress to weigh in on whether it is a harmful pollutant that should be regulated.
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A scientific review published in 2013 concluded that black carbon was second only to carbon dioxide in exerting a warming push on climate and that biomass cooking fires produced about a quarter of human emissions of this pollutant.
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"Companies that were summoned to the meeting vowed to resolutely comply to production restrictions set by the city government... and cut output to the utmost extent in order to drastically reduce pollutant emission," the Tangshan government statement said.
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However, for companies that are already below the 10-ton limit for an individual pollutant or the 25-ton limit for a group of pollutants, adhering to rules that are less strict would allow them to backslide, Walke warned.
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A white haze, thick with sulfur-dioxide emissions, soon began filling the sky: Sulfur dioxide is a common pollutant around the world — it's emitted whenever fuels containing sulfur like oil and coal are burned in cars or power plants.
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But Poseidon still needed to secure 24 permits from state agencies, such as approval from the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board for the plant's national pollutant discharge elimination system, which is required by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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"Unfortunately, we still don't know how to mitigate the health effects of inhaled pollutant exposures in pediatric populations," said Lisa Miller of the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, who also wasn't involved in the study.
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Despite concerns that there may be some sinister factor behind the deaths—a new disease, or a chemical pollutant—all of the investigations are coming to a rather simple conclusion: The North Sea is a sperm whale death trap.
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For example, 80% of Republicans think that there should be funding for research into renewable energy resources, 64% think that CO2 should be regulated as a pollutant, and 52% think that environmental protection is more important than economic growth.
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So each change in the environment (a particular pollutant, a certain novelty in road construction, a new kind of food source) will spread quickly across the world, and urban wildlife everywhere will be faced with the same novel challenge.
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In the past four years, China has succeeded in cutting concentrations of one pollutant — fine particulates — by 32 percent, roughly what it took the United States 12 years to achieve after passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970.
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Under the 2011 Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or MATS, rule, coal plants have had to reduce emissions of mercury, a pollutant that can be dangerous to pregnant women and put infants and children at risk of developmental problems.
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In an announcement Friday, the government said coal fires and wood-burning stoves — a traditional feature in many homes across the U.K. — were the "single largest source" of PM2.5, a fine particular matter that is classed as a pollutant.
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"Our observation that ... microplastics were present in every individual beluga we sampled underscores the global nature of this emerging pollutant, and the vulnerability of remote regions to contamination," researchers wrote in a paper published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin.
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The lack of evidence for prehistoric cancer has sometimes led researchers to speculate that the disease is a modern phenomenon related to unhealthy living, pollutant-filled environments or people getting much older than they used to in the past.
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The researchers considered factors like a car's fuel-efficiency rating (city miles for urban counties, highway miles for non-urban), pollutant dispersion (such as average wind patterns), and number of environmental damages (to health, infrastructure, crops, and so on).
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We can see the contradictions clearly among US government agencies and institutions—to the Bureau of Land Management, carbon-dioxide is a commodity; to the EPA it's a pollutant; while to the Chicago Climate Exchange it's a financial instrument.
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University of Exeter community ecologist Thomas Davies, who's not affiliated with the new study, says it's no secret that artificial light at night is a globally widespread pollutant, but estimating the rate at which it is expanding has been technically challenging.
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The CNN-AQI is computed for the different pollutants separately according to the concentrations (instantaneous or on average for the day, depending on the pollutant and following the recommendation of the EEA): the higher the concentrations, the higher the index.
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Sean Donahue, a lawyer who represents environmental groups, agreed, saying if the EPA were to "advance fancy interpretive footwork to try to make greenhouse gases not a Clean Air Act pollutant," the administration may not get the deference it wants.
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In a battle with California, the federal government could try to change the Clean Air Act to end regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, or it could try to revoke California's permission to enforce the current car pollution program.
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Speaking to Scottish publication The National, researcher Nic Daeid explained that the explosions allowed pollutant-removing bacteria to access the soil more quickly, and the more-porous soil had less toxic contamination at the end of the six-week study period.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Thursday to increase the allowable carbon dioxide emissions from newly built power plants to 1,900 pounds per megawatt-hour produced, from the 85033,400 pounds the Obama administration had set for the climate change pollutant.
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Far from being a colorless, odorless gas, "carbon" is soot, or in the language of environmental policy, particulate matter, which is a pollutant and the emissions of which are regulated by a series of other rules promulgated by the EPA.
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That law requires the E.P.A. to set standards, or limits, on certain so-called priority air pollutants at levels "requisite to protect public health" with "an adequate margin of safety" based on a review of the scientific knowledge about that pollutant.
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That's because the agency has long counted not just the direct health benefits of pulling a certain pollutant out of the atmosphere, but also what are called the "co-benefits" that occur when, as a result, other toxins are also reduced.
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In the Nature Sustainability paper, the researchers said that since 2013, the risk of missed miscarriages in the first trimester had declined along with the decrease in air pollutant concentration — further evidence, they said, of the link between the two.
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The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit accepted arguments from environmental groups, saying that the EPA acted improperly when it downplayed cancer risks from certain pollutants and set low pollutant thresholds for hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride emissions.
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Billboards have gone up in Chelsea and Westminster, where homes regularly sell for millions, warning they might cost "an arm, leg and a lung" - a play on a British phrase - because it is among the areas facing harmful pollutant levels.
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In 2009, the E.P.A. released a legal opinion known as an endangerment finding concluding that, because of its contribution to global warming, carbon dioxide in large amounts met the Clean Air Act's definition of a pollutant that harms human health.
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The broken well at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage site has released more than 77,000 metric tons of the powerful climate pollutant methane since the rupture was first detected on October 23, according to a counter created by the Environmental Defense Fund.
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When an electrical source is applied to these surfaces, a user of the device can tune them so that they bind with specific pollutant molecules found in a given water sample—even if these molecules are only found in parts-per-million concentrations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it was extending the deadline by one year for states to declare which areas do not meet the federal standard for ground-level ozone, a pollutant linked to several serious health conditions.
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I have seen all the conspiracy movies ect online and i want george bush senior to live forever...POPs (the persistent organic pollutant) needs jello stat: [redacted]From: Seattle, WashingtonJune 12, 2015I understand that Janet Yellen has spent decades studying labor markets.
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He's a climate change skeptic During a 2015 Senate hearing for EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Sessions claimed, "Carbon pollution is CO2, and that's really not a pollutant; that's a plant food, and it doesn't harm anybody except that it might include temperature increases."
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Around one in eight EU citizens who live in an urban area is exposed to air pollutant levels that exceed one or more of the region's air quality standards, according to a briefing note published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) last year.
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Last week, a recently reconstituted panel of science advisers to the E.P.A., the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, sharply questioned the agency's longstanding position that particulate pollution is causally linked with premature death, and it called for a new assessment of the pollutant.
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A set of studies we did last year found that pollutant emissions in 2015 alone from coal plants in Pennsylvania were responsible for thousands of premature deaths as well as asthma attacks and other health impacts across the state and the entire Northeast.
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EU limits are set per pollutant and in 2017, 16 out of the EU's 28 member states reported at least one case of levels of nitrogen dioxide, a poisonous gas in car exhaust, being higher than the legal EU annual mean concentration.
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"Pollutant emissions from heavy industry and residential heating, which account for two-thirds of the total in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, did not decline during the national holiday," said the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) in a statement on Thursday.
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White has a long history of questioning established science on climate change and once dismissed the idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and calling it "the gas of life on this planet" -- comments that drew criticism from environmentalists who opposed her nomination.
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Despite these attempts to go against well-supported research, Pruitt recently conceded that methane gas is in fact, a potent air pollutant that can make the air our families breathe toxic, especially to those most vulnerable among us, such as children with asthma.
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More than 500,000 masks were sent to students in Sarawak in East Malaysia, where air quality on Thursday peaked at 273 micrograms of fine particulate matter per cubic meter of air, deemed "very unhealthy," according to the Air Pollutant Index of Malaysia.
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"Pollutant emissions from heavy industry and residential heating, which account for two-thirds of the total in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, did not decline during the national holiday," said the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) in a statement on Thursday.
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She asked him to explain his dissent in the 2007 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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In Ghana criminals force slaves to dig for gold in protected forests, and in doing so saturate the ecosystem with mercury, a poison and pollutant so potent that the land, plants, insects, animals and people living there will be affected for decades to come.
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The scandal began in September, when Volkswagen admitted installing software in 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that could detect when the cars were being tested in a laboratory and reduce the emissions of nitrogen oxides, a deadly pollutant tied to a range of health problems.
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And it's not just that: My office is an open concept (which means my team can brainstorm freely — and pass colds from person to person freely), my schedule offers very little time for self-care, and I'm rarely exposed to fresh (read: pollutant-free) air.
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"Just because he doesn't want to hear the truth on the dangers of methane from oil and gas operations, doesn't make it any less dangerous to the millions of Americans that are forced to breathe this pollutant in on a daily basis," Pierce added.
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The high court agreed, finding that because the Clean Water Act "imposes substantial criminal and civil penalties for discharging any pollutant into waters covered by the Act without a permit from the Corps," it should allow the checks and balances provided by a court.
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In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are an air pollutant that cause harm, a legal precedent that is "being used as the support for climate-change-related lawsuits against companies," reads a recent report from the corporate law firm Anderson Kill.
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The city plans to cap the emissions of the pollutant nitrogen oxide at 100 microgram per cubic meter at city's sintering and pelleting plants by the end of September, according to Xuzhou's 2018 air pollution action plan issued by the city authorities dated April 8.
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"This is closely followed by the need to establish taxes reflecting the carbon content of fuels, and to reinforce these with taxes that cover other impacts (such as local pollutant emissions) in countries that have already some type of carbon taxation," the report adds.
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The decision: The Supreme Court held 5-4 that the EPA had the right to regulate heat-trapping gases coming from automobiles, and that the Clean Air Act's definition of air pollutant had been written with sweeping language so that it would not become obsolete.
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Instead, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases could be defined as a pollutant under Section 2628 of the Clean Air Act, and the EPA would have to regulate them if it concluded that emissions represented a threat to human health and the environment.
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" Carper noted that she had equated belief in climate change to "paganism" and highlighted her comment that ozone, a pollutant with ties to health problems, is not harmful unless "you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for eight hours every day.
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A lemon squash based on vegan kefir tastes yeasty enough—with top notes of old socks and lemongrass—before you try to understand why on earth anyone would pipe a recognized pollutant up their genitalia (or, for that matter, their rectum, or into their ear).
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Even if EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is to pull back from the Obama administration strategy of regulating GHGs as a pollutant, that still leaves intact many rules and much legislation promoting renewable and clean energy at the federal and state levels, like Executive Order 13693.
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" Carper noted that she had equated belief in climate change to "paganism" and highlighted her comment that ozone, a pollutant with ties to health problems, is not harmful unless "you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for eight hours every day.
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The EPA's decision to call aircraft emissions what they are—a contributor to climate change, and a type of pollution that should be regulated—comes in wake of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which last year set the precedent for classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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Brokers and traders have asked the country to replace the type of heavy fuel oil it has been using for calculating the formula for the hedge, Wall Street sources said, because beginning next year, tankers can no longer use that fuel, which is a heavy pollutant.
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Analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis earlier this year said more than 100 separate power plants — representing a third of Europe's large-scale coal-fired power plant capacity — face costly air quality upgrades or closure as a result of the pollutant limits.
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When the massive Waxman-Markey bill to curb greenhouse gases failed Senate passage in 2009, the EPA went ahead and made the Endangerment Finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant endangering human health and welfare — and thus subject to regulatory control under the Clean Air Act.
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Econ 101 tells us that if you want to reduce emissions of a pollutant, the most efficient way to do that is to put a price on emissions, so that all possible routes to reduction are taken, and the marginal cost is the same for all routes.
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A report out on Tuesday, for example, found that there is more carbon dioxide, which is a long-lived global warming pollutant, in the air now than at any other point since between 3 and 5 million years ago, making this an unprecedented time in human history.
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The heating up of the Arctic is also speeding the thawing of permafrost, causing the release of more carbon dioxide and methane, a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over 20 years, along with nitrous oxide, a powerful long-lived climate pollutant.
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"As climate change affects air pollutant concentrations, it can have a significant impact on health worldwide, adding to the millions of people who die from air pollution each year," Jason West, from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, said in a statement on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on whether CO2 is a harmful pollutant that should be regulated.
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"Administrator Pruitt is correct, the Congress has never explicitly given the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and the committee has no plans to do so," said Mike Danylak, spokesman for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the panel that oversees the EPA.
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During the episode, the Superstore actress explores both sides of the argument: The pollutant-emitting coal plant is allegedly to blame for horrific health issues among the area's mostly Latino and African-American, low-income population — but shutting it down would mean the loss of hundreds of jobs.
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A month before one of Devon Energy's top lobbyists sent the draft letter on fracking to Pruitt's deputy solicitor general Clayton Eubanks, Eubanks gave Devon Energy officials the opportunity to edit a separate letter addressed to the EPA -- this time about the regulation of methane emissions, a dangerous pollutant.
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As they describe in a paper in Nature Communications, however, Howard Stone of Princeton University and his colleagues have an idea for a new and cheap way to clean water up by mixing it with a substance normally regarded as a pollutant in its own right—carbon dioxide.
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The bill, which would also slow down the review schedule for EPA air pollutant rules and give regulators the chance to consider cost -- not just public health impacts -- when reviewing those rules, passed on a 234-177 vote, with seven Democrats joining Republicans in batting back the ozone standards.
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Testing of eggs laid by chickens in Tropodo, a village of 5,000 people, found high levels of several hazardous chemicals including dioxin — a pollutant known to cause cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease — according to a report released this week by an alliance of Indonesian and international environmental groups.
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The qualities that have turned "litter," the polite name for the mix of guano, wood chips and other matter that's periodically swept out of chicken houses, into a big business also make it a potent pollutant, contributing to algal bloom and other pollution in streams, rivers, ponds and lakes.
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has banned the use of fuel with a sulphur content exceeding 0.5% from the beginning of January 2020, down from a maximum of 3.5% now, unless it is to power a ship equipped with a "scrubber" to clean the pollutant from exhaust emissions.
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The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, said last week he is not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change and said he wants Congress to weigh in on whether CO2 is a harmful pollutant that should be regulated.
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Compared with teenagers who lived where pollution was lowest, those in the most polluted areas were 27 percent to 72 percent more likely to have psychotic experiences, depending on the type of pollutant; exposure to two pollutants, nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxides, accounted for 60 percent of the association.
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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE STORIES: After criticism, powerful Koch brothers won't budge Podcast: Inside the cord-cutting movement Wider Image: A death in Manila Rio for years has surpassed WHO limits for the most dangerous air pollutant - called particulate matter (PM) - spewed from millions of vehicles clogging the city's roads.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reviewing a major Obama-era clean air regulation on the emission of mercury — a pollutant linked with damage to the brain, to the nervous system and to fetal development — with the intent of proposing a replacement rule, a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.
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From pesticides in the food to phthalates in the plastics to pollutant particles in the air, so many different exposures have been linked to problems in the developing fetal brain that parents can sometimes feel both bewildered and, inevitably, at fault for failing or having failed to take all possible precautions.
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Perchlorate, a rocket fuel which has been recently detected in groundwater samples taken in the community surrounding the Radford plant, and which the Radford plant's former commander had told the Roanoke Times was detected in the new round of samples, is not listed as a detected pollutant in the draft report.
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According to the new study, published Wednesday in Nature, many factories in northeastern China have flouted the ban when it comes to a compound known as trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-211), which is an efficient destroyer of Earth's protective ozone layer and a far more powerful — albeit less abundant — global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide.
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"This legislation seeks to preempt traditional state authority to take the actions necessary for protecting state water resources, while doing away with existing federal laws that safeguard our nation's waters against harmful pollutant discharges from vessels," 10 state attorneys general, led by New York's Eric Schneiderman (D), wrote to senators last year.
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Today's widespread interest in breath analysis stems from the relatively recent discovery -- within the past 20 years or so -- that nitric oxide, a common pollutant, works as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, Terence Risby, professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CNN in 2017.
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And with urban hives growing in number and already more numerous than many people realize, tracking their pollutant levels may offer an inexpensive way to monitor what's in the air all over the world, said Dominique Weis, a professor of geochemistry at University of British Columbia and a co-author of the paper.
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WASHINGTON — One of the main advancements of the past half-century at coal-burning power plants has been the "scrubber," a clean-air device that played a major role in ending the acid-rain crisis of the 2.83s and that removes millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease.
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Also, some of the fruit or vegetables considered undesirable for sale in markets may go to food-service companies that run cafeterias on corporate campuses, hospitals or universities — and a portion of it gets donated to food banks or sent to landfills, where it rots and turns into methane gas, which is a pollutant.
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Types and designs of air cleaning devices vary greatly, from traditional high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA) filters placed in a range of devices, to more complex systems installed into the duct work or air conditioning systems in a building, as well as portable air cleaners and the use of UV light to destroy pollutant particles.
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There are detailed laws that have been revised many times over the decades, such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Toxic Substances Control Act, that charge EPA with studying and determining what is a pollutant harmful to human health and then writing and enforcing regulations to protect the public from it.
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At an energy meeting of the Heartland Institute last week, some of the nation's most vocal climate deniers gushed about the Trump administration's rapid rollback of environmental and climate rules and set their sights on a far more ambitious plan: gutting the policy that allows the EPA to treat carbon as an air pollutant.
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Read more: Air pollution kills more people each year than smoking — but it's not the only dangerous pollutant you encounter on a daily basisDue to the cigarette's inherent harm to the environment that is in addition to any smoke it gives off, some environmental activists have pushed for cigarette filters to be banned all together.
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Through clear language and only four pages, the bill would deny the EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and three other greenhouse gases The EPA now treats carbon dioxide — a ubiquitous byproduct of almost all human activity — as a dangerous pollutant controlled under the authority of the 40-year-old Clean Air Act.
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While the original goal of the project was to charge this so-called battery, what happened instead was the production of antimony, with the added benefit of capturing the sulfur, which ordinarily bonds with oxygen in the air during the process used to smelt the metal today, resulting in a pollutant that's a major contributor to acid rain.
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Meanwhile, the Heartland Institute — a controversial free-market think tank that argues global warming has been "exaggerated" and that carbon emissions don't need to be curbed — has been strategizing how to further influence the administration, with the particular aim of getting rid of the "endangerment finding" that allows the EPA to treat carbon as an air pollutant.
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On the political front, a majority of adults in every congressional district across the United States support regulations like limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal power plants, a 20% renewable power mandate for state utilities, and the regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, according to a study from the Yale Program on Climate Communication.
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Earlier this year, a paper from the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment found that when it comes to air pollutants that contribute to issues like heart and lung disease, black people are exposed to 1.5 times more of the pollutant than white people, while Hispanic people were exposed to about 1.2 times the amount of non-Hispanic whites.
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Democratic staffers AVERAGE CONSTITUENT'S VIEW Republican staffers ISSUE UNDERESTIMATED SUPPORT OVERESTIMATED Support background checks for gun sales –224 –210 Regulate carbon emissions as pollutant –5 –31 Support infrastructure spending package –9 –28 Raise minimum wage to $12 –6 –6 Repeal the Affordable Care Act –24 +10 AVERAGE CONSTITUENT'S VIEW ISSUE: UNDERESTIMATED SUPPORT OVERESTIMATED SUPPORT –11 Support background checks for gun sales Democratic staffers –49 Republican staffers –5 Regulate carbon emissions as pollutant –31 –9 Support infrastructure spending package –28 –6 Raise minimum wage to $12 –22 –24 Repeal the Affordable Care Act +10 By The New York Times | Source: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Matto Mildenberger, and Leah Stokes in the American Political Science Review Our research isn't unique: As a similar study showed, state politicians also do a poor job guessing public opinion of their constituents.
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But in his presentation, transition leader Myron Ebell hinted in his presentation at the conference that the document includes many of the environmental policy promises Trump made on the campaign trail: pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, defund international climate programs, withdraw regulations on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and undo the EPA's categorization of carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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"We will remain steadfast in our efforts urging E.P.A. to move expeditiously on its commitment to address existing sources of this highly potent greenhouse gas — which will continue to be responsible for the vast majority of this pollutant — and is essential in meeting the Paris climate agreement," Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement Thursday.
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Per this vision of wellness-oriented real estate, the rich suck in pollutant-free air, shielded from "magnetic fields" and under-sink chemical emissions, while poor people might get to live somewhere that doesn't actively give them asthma, and the chunk of Americans stuck in the middle will get to live in bunk-beds and "collaborate" until the sun burns out.
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"They're just saying that, in this case, where virtually all the benefits are 'co-benefits' of reducing a pollutant that is supposed to be regulated under other Clean Air Act programs, we can't use these co-benefits to justify a regulation that is only supposed to be about hazardous air pollutants," former EPA official and energy lobbyist Jeff Holmstead of Bracewell LLP, said in a statement.
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He formed a transition team for the agency that included some of the nation's most prominent climate science deniers, and created a policy document that recommends withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, defunding international climate programs, withdrawing regulations on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and somehow reversing the Supreme Court's ruling saying carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
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Over the past four years Dr Hanano, who works in the commission's molecular-biology department, and his colleagues have developed a way to use the stones (or pits) of dates, a waste product of the fruit-packing industry, to clean up dioxins, a particularly nasty and persistent type of organic pollutant that can lead to reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, and even cause cancer.
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The proposal is specifically aimed at a 2011 finding by the Obama administration that when the agency devises rules to control a particular pollutant — mercury, in this case — it must take into account not only the compliance costs to industry but the additional health benefits that arise from the reduction in other harmful gases like soot and smog that occur as a side effect.
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" Holgate, who was not involved in the new research, added that the sample sizes were small but that "the study deliberately selected COPD and ischemic heart disease at-risk patients, and ... overall, the findings add to evidence of the importance of pollutant effects in vulnerable groups and have implications for pollution in general from vehicles (diesel, petrol, brakes and tires) as sources of pollutants.
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But you say most of people in the U.K. get a negative view of the Trump Presidency because, as we here, of the snobbery and bias of much of the British media who look down their noses at Trump because he&aposs a businessman, not a policy (Inaudible), because he likes McDonald&aposs not home cuisine, because he speaks in plain English instead of the high pollutant bureaucratic clap trap you normally get from politicians.
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The pollutant has received renewed attention in Washington this summer, part of broad attempt by lawmakers and the Trump Administration to loosen environmental laws in the US. This week, environmental groups celebrated a surprising, if brief victory as EPA chief Scott Pruitt decided not to delay an Obama-era rule that requires states to find ways to decrease pollution — such as by forcing power plants to decrease emissions from smokestacks, or building more carpool lanes to curb car exhaust.
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Among the Questionables - the diversion of taxpayer dollars to a bureaucratic appendage of the World Health Organization called the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which has been accused of using political science to classify things like bacon and coffee as "carcinogens" that ought to be regulated - much as the Obama Administration's EPA recently issued a regulatory fatwa characterizing carbon dioxide (an inert gas that plays no role whatsoever in air quality) as a "pollutant" subject to regulation.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE said Thursday the Obama administration erred when it formally declared greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant worthy of regulations in 22019.
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As a result of these factors [and others], it produces more ozone — an unhealthful air pollutant that corrodes your lungs, rubber on your tires, agricultural crops and the exterior of buildings — than does gasoline...." Rachel Gantz, spokeswoman for the Renewable Fuels Association, a leading trade association for America's ethanol industry, says her organization's research shows otherwise and calls the claims "misleading and a disservice to consumers who have benefited from a cleaner, lower cost choice at the pump.
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