"If we don't control pollution, we're going to have serious problems, " says Li.
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Those are the methods America has tended to use to control pollution.
Another recent innovation could also help: watershed management, which means managing water supplies across political or management borders can better control pollution and track water withdrawals.
Tailpipe emissions standards are a much more important issue in California, which has them in place to control pollution from millions of cars, than in North Dakota, which does not have regulations.
Yet 82 percent of teens and 76 percent of boomers think government leaders should do more to control pollution from the oil and chemical industries, even if that increases the price of gas and oil.
But should he proceed with regulations to control pollution from existing coal-fired power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution, those regulations probably will contribute to shuttering facilities already struggling to compete with cheap natural gas.
In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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In Tokorozawa, residents have helped push a motion through the city council to control dioxin pollution.
We can and should control surface pollution as that effects air quality yet there is a huge difference between controlling air quality as that remains constant in cold or warm environments while temperatures constantly fluctuate from day to night, month to month and year to year, in the Western isles of Europe we are having a particularly cool and wet summer.
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Installing modern and widely-available pollution control technologies can reduce more than 90% of the mercury pollution that is harming both children's health and our environment.
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But it will also create new jobs, building and installing all sorts of pollution control technology.
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Other green initiatives included promoting fuel-efficient vehicles, rail transport, electricity grid improvements, and pollution control.
Consequently, pollution control technology manufactures cannot provide guarantees that companies installing their equipment will be in compliance.
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Existing pollution control technologies have demonstrated their mettle, and they need to be further deployed throughout the nation.
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With regard to non-strategic trade transactions such as grain shipments, consumer goods, medical equipment, pollution control technologies, etc.
It supports municipal wastewater facilities, estuary protection projects, and nonpoint source pollution control.
Most are "small, old, and lack advanced pollution control equipment, " the study found.
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On Monday, Sterlite said the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had ordered it shut after locals complained of breathing problems.
In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that mercury emissions from coal plants totaled 1, 850 pounds per year.
Air in San Diego County remains unhealthy, especially in Oceanside and Chula Vista, said Bill Brick, senior meteorologist for the Air Pollution Control District.
Many Midwest coal plants were built back in the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, and have not yet been retrofitted with modern pollution control equipment.
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By installing pollution control equipment that cut all of its releases that include mercury, it avoided significant legal battles while also improving its system reliability.
Because of the smoke, ash and winds, people in affected areas were urged to be cautious and to avoid unnecessary outdoor activities, the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District said.
Air pollution control devices were mandated on cars.
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These standards were called for by the Clean Air Act Amendments more than 20 years ago and level the playing field for the many utilities that have already invested in modern mercury pollution control technologies.
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"It is necessary to introduce a 'Clean Air Act' on a national level to clarify the responsibilities of the national government at all levels, companies and the individual in air pollution control, " urges The Beijing News.
The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
These companies, and some unions that see the rules as a potential economic catalyst, say that the industry has had years to prepare for tougher regulation and that the rules will generate jobs for workers who make, install or operate pollution control equipment.
The other was a much larger gathering of people from what we would now call civil society, or environmental campaign groups, who used the now familiar smorgasbord of marches, song, demonstrations and dialogue to press issues from pollution control to civil rights to vegetarianism.
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