The impact of high air-pollution levels on long-term health weighs on Chinese and foreigners alike.
It is to add dioxin to the list of toxic chemicals controlled under an air-pollution law.
It scored a paltry three out of 10 for air-pollution ratings and two out of 10 for greenhouse gas emissions.
He and his colleagues have launched a new air-pollution index that he says captures health risks better than the official index, which has not kept pace with the latest science.
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Many of those cars do have poor emissions and fuel efficiency ratings but are produced in such small quantities and are driven so infrequently that they don't significantly contribute to air-pollution problems.
The politicians are leaving all the details, including who will do the cutting, how the trading mechanism will work and what the penalties for failure will be, up to the agency that enforces the state's existing air-pollution standards.
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine then further delayed the endgame of the conference with an argument over so-called "hot air" - the pollution permits they were given to allow their heavy industries to thrive.
California, for example, estimates that 9, 000 people die each year from air pollution-related illnesses.
Dawson is author of an editorial discussing a trio of papers, including the autism-air pollution report, in the latest issue of JAMA Psychiatry (formerly Archives of General Psychiatry).
But the traffic increase has slowed progress in reducing emissions further, and people in many areas still suffer from nitrogen-related air pollution, including small particulates that get sucked deep into the lungs, and ground-level ozone - a strongly irritant gas formed by the action of sunlight on reactive nitrogen.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.
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Now, with the clean air brought by anti-pollution legislation, British peppered moths are once again peppered.
In 2008 the EPA issued the cross-state air pollution rule to revise a 2005 regulation that had also been challenged in court.
At issue now is the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that attempts to limit the levels of harmful emissions as they traverse across state lines.
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On the horizontal axis of each graph, we have total traffic-related air pollution exposure, increasing in parts per billion (a part here would be a drop in a billion drops) from left to right.
The study involved 5, 362 people between the ages of 45 and 84 living in six different cities that are part of the MESA AIR (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution) research project, led by Joel Kaufman.
The likely cause of this is that, besides nasty gases, air pollution includes sub-microscopic particles called aerosols.
The American Lung Association's study ranks the air quality of 900 counties and more than 200 U.S. Census-defined Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Combined Statistical Areas--cities and their surrounding suburbs--where an air pollution monitor is present.
David Docherty, head of estates at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, told the BBC there were other considerations when it was decided to move the hospital from its old Whitechapel premises to a new adjacent building - namely, air pollution.
There are big bucks to be made in surgical and medical fabrics-gross profits for surgical packs, gowns, caps, masks, sponges, bandages and tape run 25% to 30%-and in allergen- and pollution-trapping filters for heating and air-conditioning (50% to 60%), both made by 3M.
The ALA assessed levels of ozone pollution, more commonly known as smog, and levels of particle pollution, or air-born toxins that can potentially be lethal if inhaled at high enough levels.
Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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In all, cars and trucks account for almost one-third of the total air pollution in the United States.
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Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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In big cities, especially those in fast-developing countries in Asia and Latin America, gridlocked traffic is responsible for health-threatening levels of local air pollution.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, like we did in December, it was to prevent our kids from breathing in dangerous chemicals.
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As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
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