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Emits3
  • It emits millions of negative ions every minute or second that push the contaminants to attract positively charged surrounding surfaces. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • Generating electricity from solar panels prevents air pollution since they don't rely on fuel that emits carbon dioxide in order to run. (xinpuguangsolar.com)
  • coal emits between 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of CO2E/kWh. (ucsusa.org)
Particulates3
  • When agricultural ammonia, mainly arising from the breakdown of manure and slurry, combines with pollution from car exhausts and industry it creates dangerous particulates in the air. (soilassociation.org)
  • In the case of air monitoring, the equipment used is often too crude to detect certain fine particulates - experts decry the use in some cases of decades old equipment, when newer more sensitive technology is available. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • According to Dr. Brian Salvatore, a professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University, it's very hard to gauge just how far these particulates can be carried in the air. (envirosagainstwar.org)
Chemicals11
  • Such rules will protect us from mercury, arsenic, acid gases, and 34 other dangerous chemicals that power plants have been spewing uncontrolled for decades. (americanprogress.org)
  • Coal-fired power plants emit 772 million pounds of airborne toxic chemicals into the sky every year-more than 2.5 pounds for every American man, woman, and child in this country. (americanprogress.org)
  • At 4 a.m. on June 21, 2019, a series of massive fires and explosions at a Philadelphia refinery sent both large amounts of toxic chemicals and huge chunks of debris into the air. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • The illegal emissions included carcinogens, smog-forming chemicals, and other hazardous air pollutants discharged in excess of limits in the facilities' Clean Air Act permits. (environmentamerica.org)
  • State and federal environmental regulators rarely test around the country's largest industrial facilities for "toxic air pollutants," a group of 188 chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects. (grist.org)
  • It aimed to curtail the use of an " affirmative defense " that oil refineries, coal plants and other polluters commonly deploy to regulators after illegally emitting dangerous chemicals: claiming that the emissions were a result of a "start-up, shutdown or malfunction" at a facility - basically, an unforeseen, unavoidable situation. (texasobserver.org)
  • What is known, however, is that open burns pits across the country are throwing out a vast spectrum of highly dangerous pollutants into the environment, including dioxins and furans (some of the most toxic chemicals known to science), polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs, the manufacturing of which was banned in the 1970s due to its toxicity), chromium (a carcinogen), dinitrotoluene (DNT, a probable carcinogen), and perchlorate (linked to chronic thyroid problems). (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • A major cause of air pollution is the burning of oil, which contains several harmful chemicals that have carcinogenic effects. (xinpuguangsolar.com)
  • Scented products only mask or cover up other odors by adding more chemicals into the indoor air. (mdsassociates.com)
  • They're used in industrial applications where the foulest of odors prevail and to reduce harmful chemicals including formaldehyde, chlorine, chloramine, ammonia, benzene and chloroform gases emitted from such items as paint, carpeting, air fresheners, chemical cleaners, rubber and plastic. (mdsassociates.com)
  • That means these chemicals evaporate easily and often react with other substances in the air - they are volatile. (safeairhealth.org)
Hazardous6
  • The bill was a regulatory rollback that exempted all farms from reporting air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste under CERCLA. (civileats.com)
  • The deal allowed Exide and its employees to avoid prosecution for years of environmental crimes, including illegal storage, disposal and shipment of hazardous waste, while agreeing to pay $50 million to demolish and clean the plant and surrounding communities, including $9 million set aside for removing lead from homes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Blasting air at up to 185 mph, leaf blowers can whip up hazardous particles and contaminants from the ground at speeds greater than a Category 5 hurricane, sending them long distances. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • The EPA has added millions of paperwork hours to regulations for its spill prevention, its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, and the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants. (freebeacon.com)
  • Investigators found 15 million pounds of hazardous artillery munitions waste at the camp, and officials originally planned to dispose of them through an open burn. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • Allow 5,000 additional tons of hazardous air pollution and mercury emissions. (nwf.org)
Emissions20
  • A proposed rule from acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler would free large animal feedlots from having to report potentially toxic air emissions from animal waste. (civileats.com)
  • Embracing the "normal odor" argument, acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a proposed rule on Tuesday to amend emergency release notification regulations to let industrial agricultural operations off the hook from reporting air emissions from animal waste at their farms. (civileats.com)
  • These pollutants have killed farm workers and residents because of the hydrogen sulfide and other emissions, noted Tarah Heinzen, a staff attorney with Food & Water Watch. (civileats.com)
  • These are dangerous emissions that communities have the right to know about," Heinzen said. (civileats.com)
  • Other recent moves by President Trump's EPA to undermine the health and safety of Americans include the proposal to roll back federal auto emissions and fuel efficiency standards, plans to weaken the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and the suspension of the Chemical Disaster Rule. (civileats.com)
  • The air emissions reporting that the Trump administration is trying to eliminate provide state and federal regulators with important data. (civileats.com)
  • The reports can be used to determine if the farm should be feeding their livestock different types of feed or if the facilities need different equipment or ventilation to prevent harmful air emissions. (civileats.com)
  • In 2013, Exide was under federal criminal investigation for emitting high levels of harmful pollutants from its battery recycling plant in Vernon, CA. Hundreds of residents had complained for years about Exide's toxic emissions before state and federal agencies acted. (wikipedia.org)
  • An Air District program aimed at replacing up to 50,000 leaf blowers and 10,000 lawn mowers by 2020 would reduce the most dangerous small-particle emissions (sized 2.5 and 10 microns) by 0.12 tons (240 pounds) per day, according to the 2010 Clean Air Plan. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • The EPA also " prints in bulk ," which has wasted at least 8 million pages of paper and cost more than 300,000 pounds in carbon emissions. (freebeacon.com)
  • These all-electric trucks eliminate vehicle emissions of all air pollutants, including soot and those that contribute to climate change. (ny.gov)
  • Executive Director and Chief Counsel of Clean Air Council , said: "The outdated technology EPA is allowing polluters to use to reduce emissions is endangering our communities. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • At issue in the cases were illegal air emissions arising from so-called "upset" events - equipment breakdowns, malfunctions, and other non-routine occurrences - at Shell's Deer Park oil refinery and chemical plant and Chevron Phillips' Cedar Bayou chemical plant in Baytown. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Houston's air is cleaner today because of the reductions in illegal emissions at these two large Harris County plants," explained Dr. Neil Carman, Clean Air Program Director for Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Shell cut its emissions from large upset events - those releasing enough pollutants to trigger the State's public reporting requirements - by about 95%, from an average of approximately 1 million pounds per year before the lawsuit to about 45,000 pounds in the third year following the settlement. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Chevron Phillips cut total upset emissions from nearly 200,000 pounds per year before the lawsuit to less than 9,000 pounds for all of 2012, more than a 95% reduction. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Air pollution: Incinerator emissions include heavy metals and mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain function, as well as cancer-causing pollutants like dioxin, one of the most toxic substances known to humanity. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The EPA Told Texas to Crack Down on Dangerous Air Emissions in 2015. (texasobserver.org)
  • In 2017, so-called facility start-ups, shutdowns and malfunctions caused 4,000 illegal emissions events and were responsible for 63 million pounds of air pollution statewide, according to an Environment Texas report . (texasobserver.org)
  • The Energy Department concluded that, over thirty years, the new standards should reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 100 million metric tons and generate health benefits worth up to $4.5 billion by reducing air pollutants. (theregreview.org)
Indoor air15
Particulate6
  • We know the millions of pounds of largely untreated waste from the nation's factory farms are significant sources of air pollution, including ammonia, particulate matter and greenhouse gas methane," she said in a statement Tuesday. (civileats.com)
  • That same refinery's 2017 fire poured nearly a million pounds of potentially dangerous pollutants into the air, "including carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds," according to Valero's own estimates. (beniciaindependent.com)
  • Particulate matter , also known as particle pollution, in the air is considered microscopic liquid and solids that get inhaled with air. (bistromd.com)
  • The district has called particulate matter "the air pollutant that poses by far the greatest health risk to Bay Area residents. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • About 5 pounds of particulate matter per leaf blower per hour are swept into the air and take hours to settle, according to a widely cited leaf-blower pollution report by the Orange County, California grand jury in 1999. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) - When flames swept through western Maui, engulfing the town of Lahaina, residents saw toxic fumes spewing into the air as burning homes, pipes and cars combusted, transforming rubber, metal and plastic into poisonous, particulate matter-filled smoke. (myfox8.com)
Breathe10
  • Learn how both mom and baby can be affected and tips to breathe in clean air. (bistromd.com)
  • We reveal ways to help clean the air you breathe to lower the health effects of air pollution on pregnancy here! (bistromd.com)
  • It makes the sky blue, makes up most of the air we breathe and is found in all living things. (soilassociation.org)
  • The mills and other plants operate under a system in which regulators typically issue individual environmental permits in isolation, without accounting for how the pollution from multiple mills, factories and waste accumulates in the air that residents breathe. (eenews.net)
  • These provisions have been hailed as major wins for areas of the country that have been kept in the dark for decades about the quality of the air they breathe. (grist.org)
  • But if you have a tiny percentage of something that is bad to breathe, or bad to get as fallout on your plants and soil and kids and house, even a tiny percentage of millions of pounds adds up. (navytimes.com)
  • Oilmarks are measures to handcuff regulators, forcing them to look the other way as polluters endanger the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the lands and waters that nurture fish and wildlife. (nwf.org)
  • Go for the purifier that uses any of the processes among them to be able to breathe healthy air. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • Ozone generators also are not a good choice to control indoor odors as they produce very high levels of indoor ozone which can be dangerous to breathe. (mdsassociates.com)
  • Children breathe in 50 percent more air per pound of bodyweight than adults do. (safeairhealth.org)
Tons5
  • In 2018 alone, the U.S. threw out over 292 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) - the materials discarded by homes, businesses and institutions, such as universities and libraries. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Over 28% of all U.S. garbage is packaging, amounting to 82 million tons of material that is typically thrown out after a product is purchased or used. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Ocean pollution: An estimated 16.5 million tons of plastic washes into the world's oceans every year. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The two old power plants discharge over 150 tons of pollution per year into the air. (franciscodacosta.org)
  • The amount of munitions the military is seeking to dispose of is staggering - a 2015 Governmental Accountability Office Report estimates that by 2020, the stockpile could exceed 1.1 million tons. (envirosagainstwar.org)
Amounts3
  • Even small amounts of these extremely harmful air pollutants are linked to diseases including cancer, heart disease, brain damage, asthma attacks, and even premature death. (americanprogress.org)
  • Houston has a high amount of residential segregation and housing discrimination which forces residents seeking affordable housing into marginalized areas where they are exposed to higher amounts of pollutants, less access to amenities, and are often at a higher risk of flooding. (mediaroots.org)
  • Different energy sources produce different amounts of these pollutants. (ucsusa.org)
Emit1
  • They won't only keep the surrounding air clean, but also often emit negative ions to make you feel good. (homeairgeeks.com)
Contaminants2
  • and toxic contaminants such as benzene, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde and formaldehyde, according to a widely quoted 2000 California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board report. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • It is responsible for 70 consistent with cent of water-manner pollutants, its harm exceeding that of sewage remedy plants, urban typhoon sewers, and pollutants from contaminants in air. (myphampizuquangtri.com)
Contributors to air pollution2
Harmful air1
  • Driving older gasoline and diesel vehicles exposes people to a significant amount of harmful air pollution. (ucsusa.org)
Close a loophole2
  • In 2017, a federal court ordered the EPA in 2017 to close a loophole that exempted CAFOs from the same pollutant reporting required of other industries to ensure public safety. (civileats.com)
  • The order was the result of years of activism to close a loophole that's long been exploited by industrial air polluters to escape penalties. (texasobserver.org)
Potentially dangerous1
  • What's more, both are considered potentially dangerous. (bistromd.com)
Neurotoxin2
  • Power plants also are the largest domestic source of airborne mercury in the United States, a particularly dangerous neurotoxin. (americanprogress.org)
  • Despite the MOU, earlier this month air monitoring devices in the vicinity of the refinery detected the presence of the dangerous neurotoxin hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in the air, quite possibly emanating from the facility, even as Benicians reported smelling something like rotten eggs - the odor of H2S - in several parts of town. (beniciaindependent.com)
Toxics2
  • The Environmental Protection Agency took a critical step toward cleaner air on March 16, 2011, by proposing its air toxics standards for coal-fired power plants . (americanprogress.org)
  • In addition, these leaks release a number of pollutants known as "air toxics"-such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene that are dangerous to human beings. (bluegreenalliance.org)
Exposure6
Odor6
  • On Dec. 8, the day Mayor Farrah Khan was sworn into office, the city received more than 50 complaints about odor and pollutants emanating from the plant. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Stop Using Air Fresheners & Odor Eliminators That Mask The Problem. (mdsassociates.com)
  • When you notice an odor, it signals that you are exposed to something in the air that triggered your sense of smell. (mdsassociates.com)
  • We've tried to use air fresheners, fabric fresheners, scented beads and sport odor eliminators. (mdsassociates.com)
  • These powerful, long-lasting odor absorber and air purifier packs are filled with ½ pound of the world's finest coconut shell activated carbon (also called activated charcoal, activated coal or active carbon) process that results in millions of micro-pores. (mdsassociates.com)
  • This network of hungry micro-pores continually filters large volumes of air and attracts, then encapsulates pollutants, allergens, VOC's and stubborn odors including musty and moisture related odor over long periods of time at any temperature permanently and naturally! (mdsassociates.com)
Volatile organic c2
  • Methane from the oil and gas industry comes packaged with other pollutants, called Volatile Organic Compounds-or VOCs-which are a key ingredient in ground-level ozone, also called smog. (bluegreenalliance.org)
  • Across the country, thousands of industrial flares burn excess waste gases and release smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carcinogenic benzene, and other pollutants that threaten the health of people living nearby, often minorities and communities with moderate incomes. (environmentalintegrity.org)
Particles3
  • Epidemiological studies have long recognized the harm these particles including hydrocarbons from gasoline, animal droppings, spores, fungi, pollens, pesticides and herbicides, fertilizers, brake-lining dust and tire residue and heavy metals cause to people's respiratory systems, according to Bay Area Air Quality Management District reports. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • The average adult inhales 450 cubic centimeters (roughly one pint) of air per breath, which includes 1 million to 10 million tiny particles with each breath. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • The Radford plant, known as the Arsenal, is one of 51 sites across the country that still openly burns leftover ammunition, excess explosives and other materials, releasing dangerous particles like lead, mercury and chromium into the air. (navytimes.com)
Benzene1
  • Industrial facilities, like chemical manufacturers and natural gas processing plants, use flares as pollution control devices to burn and destroy dangerous organic compounds like benzene in waste gases. (environmentalintegrity.org)
Loophole1
  • Having failed to implement the Commission's recommendations, the House is rushing instead to move in the other direction and open an Alaska-sized loophole in the Clean Air Act and send a clear and intimidating signal to oil regulators that they will be punished by Congress for doing their job. (nwf.org)
Cleaner air1
  • But funds for more air monitoring on their own don't fix the biggest problem standing in the way of communities demanding cleaner air, former EPA staffers and environmental advocates told Grist. (grist.org)
Greenhouse3
  • Here's a great idea: let's take an insecticidal fumigant that's also a wildly more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and release more of it into the air than we have before. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas, but other air pollutants-such as methane-also cause global warming. (ucsusa.org)
  • For all the "green" talk, the amount of greenhouse gases in the air keeps on rising. (pepeace.org)
Arsenic2
  • Toxic mercury, arsenic, and other pollutants have been spewing uncontrolled from power plants even though we fully know how bad they are . (americanprogress.org)
  • Residents had long been concerned about the air pollution from the plant that was found to have emitted lead, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants over decades. (wikipedia.org)
Year14
  • The plant processed over 11 million used lead batteries each year. (wikipedia.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests air and household air pollution causes about seven million premature deaths each year. (bistromd.com)
  • A new report released by the American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute, found complying with the agency's rules now requires 188 million paperwork hours, the equivalent of 95,000 Americans working full time for a year. (freebeacon.com)
  • A new analysis conducted by Environment Texas and the Environmental Integrity Project found that 68 million pounds of air pollution, the majority of which was released illegally, entered into the atmosphere last year. (austinsentinel.com)
  • Americans throw out 4.9 pounds of trash per person every day - that's nearly 1,800 pounds of materials per American every year. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Thirty million acres of cropland, roughly the area of Pennsylvania, is farmed each year for food that is wasted in the U.S. (environmentamerica.org)
  • North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. (feedreader.com)
  • Earlier this year, owners of one mill agreed to pay a $3 million fine for a 2019 spill that dumped wastewater tainted with cyanide and ammonia into a Lake Michigan tributary. (eenews.net)
  • For decades, Washington and its environmental regulators have largely overlooked the struggles of communities like this one, where toxic pollution persists despite landmark laws like the 52-year-old Clean Air Act. (eenews.net)
  • Accidents at refineries often involve the release of toxic pollution into communities like Norco, where the refinery averages 29 accidents per year and has released nearly 3 million pounds of pollution since 2005, according to the Louisiana Refinery Accident Database. (truthout.org)
  • According to American Forests, the forests in Atlanta remove about 19 million pounds of air pollutants each year, worth about $47 million a year. (gatrees.org)
  • Through push back by local campaigners, attempts earlier this year to increase by approximately 500,000 pounds the amount of munitions burned there annually were thwarted. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • The World Health Organization estimates that 4.2 million people die prematurely due to outdoor air pollution every year. (xinpuguangsolar.com)
  • Hockey players are typically on the ice several times a week for several months of the year and when they aren't skating, the wet equipment is often removed from the gear bag to air dry. (mdsassociates.com)
Impairs brain1
  • 4] This toxic metal, which is expelled into the air as coal and burned for electricity, is especially dangerous for young and developing children because it impairs brain development. (americanprogress.org)
World's1
  • The image draws attention to a painful truth: More than 90% of the world's people are breathing polluted air , which can be deadly. (businessinsider.com)
Americans1
  • Seventeen states have already taken steps to reduce these harmful pollutants, and over 800,000 Americans have sent comments to the EPA in support of stronger protections. (americanprogress.org)
Decades3
  • Unfortunately, recent attempts by House Republicans to handcuff the EPA are threatening both decades of public health progress and the further action we need to clean up the air, which will lessen the burden of asthma and other health problems. (americanprogress.org)
  • The decades of air pollution from the Exide Technologies facility has potentially contaminated the nearby communities of Boyle Heights, Maywood, East Los Angeles, Commerce, Bell, and Huntington Park. (wikipedia.org)
  • the electricity system and domestic housing in the next three decades will cost over £2.3 trillion pounds. (wattsupwiththat.com)
Regulators1
  • The Clean Air Act contains a "citizen suit" provision that allows private citizens affected by violations of the law to bring an enforcement suit in federal court if state and federal regulators do not. (environmentamerica.org)
Polluters2
  • The results achieved through these settlements show that polluters can make dramatic reductions in air pollution if someone requires them to make the effort," said Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas. (environmentamerica.org)
  • Oil companies and other corporate polluters looked on gleefully as their allies in Congress took beating sticks to the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. (nwf.org)
EPA's2
  • The EPA's proposed air toxic standards and their other ongoing efforts should be defended both before Congress and in our public discourse. (americanprogress.org)
  • EPA's paperwork burden now stands at 188 million hours. (freebeacon.com)
Health effects of air pollution1
100,0001
  • The garage owner just sold the art for more than 100,000 pounds ($129,000). (businessinsider.com)
20171
  • Since my first book "See The Air - The Essential Guide for Optimal Air Quality in Your Life" was published back in 2017 many have read it, and many have followed my example and tried to write and describe the problem too. (safeairhealth.org)
Officials3
  • At a community meeting led by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) on Dec. 9, more than a dozen residents demanded answers from a panel of air quality experts and enforcement officials. (theepochtimes.com)
  • But even in places where the destruction has begun to subside, officials are warning residents that it remains too dangerous to return and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are surveying the area for additional hazards. (myfox8.com)
  • Officials like Bissen and Felton have taken their cue from scientists who warn that fires - even once extinguished in a particular neighborhood or area - can leave lasting health hazards, including in the air and drinking water. (myfox8.com)
Reductions3
  • People will continue to suffer without significant reductions in these pollutants. (americanprogress.org)
  • Those reductions are even more than was required by their settlements of federal Clean Air Act lawsuits brought by the environmental groups, and have contributed to recent efforts to improve air quality in the Houston metropolitan area. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The groups' lawsuit against Shell, initially filed in 2008, was resolved in 2009 by a first-of-its-kind settlement mandating emission reductions, extensive physical and operational upgrades, and imposing a citizen suit-record $5.8 million penalty. (environmentamerica.org)
Heavy metals1
  • The old toxic spewing power plants discharge over 500,000 pounds of heavy metals, petrochemicals, and other very dangerous pollutants. (franciscodacosta.org)
Generate3
  • The Air Quality District in 2010 estimated there were approximately 258,000 two-stroke leaf blowers in the Bay Area, which generate significantly more air pollution than four-stroke engines. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • The products we use and dispose of are created by processes like mining and manufacturing, which generate far more, and far more dangerous, waste. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The most common type of personal, battery operated air purifiers generate negative ions to fight against pollutants. (homeairgeeks.com)
Airborne1
  • This is all fun and games until someone is hurt-a speeding boater plus a 40-pound airborne fish equals trouble. (gridphilly.com)
Related to air pollution1
  • This funding is providing a double dose of good for our community by cutting down on air pollution and providing our nonprofits with resources," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. "So many of our Bronx residents suffer from health issues directly related to air pollution and seeing pilot programs like this one gives me hope for the future. (ny.gov)
Plant3
  • Yvette shared details surrounding the dangerous situation that unfolded at a chemical plant in Houston after Hurricane Harvey hit the area. (mediaroots.org)
  • In response to these findings, the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 5 office, which covers the Midwest, began collecting air samples around the Sterigenics plant. (grist.org)
  • The smell of burnt rubber and worries over air pollution are keeping some residents up at night in neighborhoods surrounding an asphalt-mixing plant in Irvine, California. (theepochtimes.com)
Purifier7
  • Getting an air purifier is by far the best thing you can do if breathing fresh air is important to you. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • But, carrying an air purifier isn't possible if it needs AC power, and that's where battery operated machines do the magic. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • However, if you can get the best battery operated air purifier, it can do more than that. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • So, is it worth getting a battery operated air purifier? (homeairgeeks.com)
  • Yes, you can go for a DC air purifier, if it runs on either of the technologies described above. (homeairgeeks.com)
  • Then one day here at work, we came across these industrial-strength air purifier packs designed for commercial active packaging applications to protect brand quality throughout global supply chains. (mdsassociates.com)
  • I was so impressed by the performance that I went back into work and grabbed another air purifier bag and headed home. (mdsassociates.com)
People's1
  • When they settle to earth, these pollutants can mix into dirt that is tracked into people's homes or wash into waterways that feed the lake. (eenews.net)
Excess1
  • When used in excess, nitrogen fertilisers can be oxidised and lost to the air as nitrous oxide. (soilassociation.org)
Crude1
  • You may recall that "exploratory" drilling was the reassuring term used by BP for the Deepwater Horizon before it dumped millions of gallons of toxic crude into the Gulf, with devastating impacts on wildlife . (nwf.org)
Methane2
Outdoor air pollu1
Levels5
  • The exact amount of pollution levels and which pollutants may increase this risk are still being researched. (bistromd.com)
  • But that figure can spike to much higher levels in close proximity to high-volume roadways or other major outdoor emission sources," the district's "Bay Area 2010 Clean Air Plan" noted. (paloaltoonline.com)
  • Even when air monitors pick up concerning levels of toxic pollutants in neighborhoods near industrial facilities, no law requires state environmental agencies or the EPA to do anything about it. (grist.org)
  • Factor in their ability to live in just about every body of water-they can even gulp air when oxygen levels are low-and they're almost impossible to eliminate. (gridphilly.com)
  • EPA studies have found that pollutant levels inside can be two to five times higher than outdoors. (safeairhealth.org)
19904
  • These protections were called for in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, but they haven't been implemented, and they are long overdue. (americanprogress.org)
  • The Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act provides a brief introduction to the 1990 Clean Air Act. (safeairhealth.org)
  • The 1990 Clean Air Act is the most recent version of a law first passed in 1970 to clean up air pollution. (safeairhealth.org)
  • This summary covers some of the important provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act and may help you understand what is in the law and how it may affect you. (safeairhealth.org)
Clean7
  • The project is funded by a $9.5 million settlement the Attorney General's Office reached with American Electric Power, the nation's largest power company, over the company's violations of the federal Clean Air Act. (ny.gov)
  • EPA has not updated the air pollution control standards for industrial flares in 34 years, even though the federal Clean Air Act requires that agency review them at least once every eight years to make sure they adequately protect the public and incorporate improvements in technology, according to the notice. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • The organizations that sent the notice - the first required step in a federal lawsuit - are EIP, Clean Air Council, Air Alliance Houston, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Earthworks, Environment America, Environment Texas, Hoosier Environmental Council, PennEnvironment, and Texas Campaign for the Environment. (environmentalintegrity.org)
  • Shell and Chevron Phillips are to be commended for moving quickly to achieve compliance with the Clean Air Act after being sued, rather than choosing to pay armies of lawyers to drag things out in court. (environmentamerica.org)
  • In addition to the two cases against Shell and Chevron Phillips, Environment Texas and Sierra Club filed a similar Clean Air Act citizen suit against ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery and chemical plants. (environmentamerica.org)
  • The cabinet secretary for the environment, Roseanna Cunningham , is pledging not to weaken a raft of Brussels legal measures regarded as crucial for conserving plants and animals and keeping air, water and land clean and healthy. (robedwards.com)
  • Hawaii's state toxicologist Diana Felton told Hawaii Public Radio that it could take weeks or months to clean up the pollutants. (myfox8.com)
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  • Every day, my office fights to protect the thousands of New Yorkers who are sickened or die prematurely because of unhealthy air," said Attorney General Letitia James . (ny.gov)
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  • AQMD has inspected the site, launched an ongoing investigation, cited All American Asphalt for five public nuisance violations since September 2019, and has begun an air quality study in communities near the site, the panel members told residents. (theepochtimes.com)
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  • Low-birth weight is defined as a baby weighing less than 5 pounds 8 ounces at birth. (bistromd.com)
  • Under the new law, individuals may possess up to two pounds of marijuana at home and two ounces in public without penalty after the bill takes effect on August 1. (theregreview.org)
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  • For people living in close proximity to intensive livestock ammonia hotspots, the pollution can be both overwhelming and dangerous . (soilassociation.org)
  • Kelley stood in a room with other activists and then-EPA administrator Gina McCarthy as she signed a directive ordering Texas and 35 other states to mandate penalties for industrial facilities when they illegally spew dangerous pollutants, fouling the air and making people sick. (texasobserver.org)
  • These people buy $1 [million] or $2 million homes, and why would you want to live next to an industrial site that's creating all this smell with these asphalt issues? (theepochtimes.com)
  • Because the legislation would apply solely to counties with populations of over 4 million people, it is expected to impact only Democratic-leaning Harris County. (theregreview.org)