Since 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency has tracked chemicals at plants around the U.S. You can look up everything from how much carbon dioxide DuPont releases into the air, to how much lead a group of potters uses in their ceramics studio each year.
But this big of a drop is surprising considering how little competition was on the air and how much pre-season momentum NBC has had lately.
Other than a precious few secrets, like how fast a head plunges into an air bag or how much force a taut seat belt exerts on an abdomen, the dummies reveal little.
If it becomes law, it will be harder to force agribusinesses to report how much they befoul the air and water, much less clean it up.
It declined to give clear answers to questions about who is producing them and how much it is costing to air them.
Users see a mapped-out rendering of their office showing the strength and location of various access points, who's using them, how much traffic is in the air, and if any unauthorized nodes have popped up.
"Clearly for the second commitment to have integrity, there need to be limits on what's carried over and how much countries use that 'hot air' in their targets, " she told BBC News.
White wines don't have such a problem, says Moorfield, and if you like the taste of a champagne on the ground it's more than likely to taste just as good in the air (regardless of how much you drink).
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James said the Air Force is evaluating how much to continue to invest in drones like the Reapers that can be used for counterterrorism missions in more so-called permissive environments, versus how much investment should be shifted to other aircraft.
We also need to know how much CO2 they are taking out of the air.
For extra credit, perhaps one of you enterprising readers would like to calculate how much carbon dioxide has been released into the air by the burning of 6.3 million gallons of oil.
The way that Mr Pearce and his colleagues value such intangibles is to find out how much the public would pay to have the air made cleaner, say, or the homeless housed.
Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.
So someone at Cars.com green lighted the agency to spend millions of dollars to air this commercial AFTER green lighting how much money to actually create and produce it.
The new study looked at how much metal this so-called particulate matter is contained in the air of underground train systems.
Questions from the floor included everything from what would happen to the panels in high winds, and how much maintenance they need, to can they withstand being peppered from the air by starling excrement.
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The pressure is on you and you need that communication from your wingers to tell you how much time you have got left, whether you go up in the air or stay on the ground.
Open-air mining operations in France are also using drones to determine how much materials have been removed from mines.
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Now, companies with plants that use or produce chemicals on the list have to complete a long form (one form per chemical, per plant), which tells exactly how much of the chemical is used or produced and where it is going (air, water, recycling, waste treatment).
The people who care about it are the large enterprises that IBM sells to, companies like Sears, ING, Heinz and Air Canada, and these firms tend not to want too talk much about how they use technology for fear of disclosing their advantages to competitors.
"Newlyweds" is, if nothing else, diverse, but how much is "real" (everything takes quotation marks in reality TV) is up in the air.
There's no example of an air pollution problem anywhere in the world that has been solved without a cap or legal limit on how much of that pollution can be dumped into the sky.
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