Throw in the cost of scrubbers and other required pollution controls, and many smaller coal plants will have to be shut down, Bergstrom says.
Just a few weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of so many of you, Lisa and I was able to announce new common-sense standards to better protect the air we breathe from mercury and other harmful air pollution.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks to Environmental Protection Agency Staff | The White House
It may be a confounding variable in studies of air pollution or other causes of disease.
However, other researchers questioned how pollution could alter the brain's development and lead to autism.
These "environmental sensor stations" would use the phone network to offer real-time and hyper-local records of the city's rain levels, pollution and other environmental conditions.
Located remotely from other sources of air pollution, Mauna Loa is commonly considered one of the most reliable places to measure concentrations of gases in the atmosphere.
As a World Heritage Site, many efforts are taken to ensure that pollution and other harmful activities do not impact the reef and the countless species that consider the reef home.
FORBES: Providing Safe Passage: For Business And For The Great Barrier Reef
Now, the regulators have issued what they tout as the country's toughest energy drilling regulations, requiring rigs to be at least 500 feet away from occupied buildings and take other steps to limit pollution.
People who have COPD can be more susceptible to such respiratory tract infections, and may experience exacerbations episodes of potentially life-threatening shortness of breath when they catch a cold or breath in air pollution or other irritants.
Kennedy and arranged for a helicopter ride around New York City to show him all the sources of air pollution and why our group proposed correcting our national GNP to subtract the costs of pollution and other externalities.
FORBES: Hazel Henderson: Reforming Markets, Metrics and Media
Environmental groups, foundations, and major oil and gas companies came together to support stringent measures to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region, and they invited other groups to join in and help limit pollution from fracking.
The high-growth countries had less, and faster-declining, water pollution than the other two categories.
"But hopefully the Welsh government will realise that there are no pollution risks or other issues which should stop this going ahead, which is what the councillors felt after they came here on a site visit, " he said.
As big trading firms Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch push into the market, boutique brokerages like Evolution must deal in complex custom trades, combining pollution credits with other derivatives in deals that help companies mitigate several risks at once.
And it's often forgotten because this is an executive action that he did in concert with major automobile companies, but taken by itself this single action did more to reduce carbon pollution than any other action that has been taken, in our view.
Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13, 000 people per year.
FORBES: Update: Peabody Punked by Fake 'Coal Cares' Asthma Site
Yangtse Evening Post reports "severe" air pollution in Nanjing and other major cities of eastern Jiangsu province.
And that's at the same time that we're going to be hitting them with a lot of other challenges besides climate change - pollution and land use change, deforestation and fragmenting of the landscape.
Opponents warn that fracking is an environmental disaster waiting to happen, citing, among other risks, air and water pollution, the release of radiation and cancer-causing substances, and the acceleration of global climate change as methane and other greenhouse gases escape during fracking.
The expected result is significantly reduced stormwater pollution flowing into rivers and other water bodies, making them more usable and attractive for residents, businesses and visitors.
What it comes down to in pollution parlance regarding humans and other species is that kids may demonstrate seven times more inhalation and exhalation rates than their parents, meaning, they absorb far more pollutants from off adjacent freeways into their lungs (a clear-cut case of a social justice issue, among other things).
The ALA analyzed particle pollution levels two ways: short-term particle pollution, or high spikes in the level of soot and other toxins in the air that last a few hours to a few weeks, and year-round particle pollution, or the annual average of particle pollution levels.
At regional and local levels, it is important to reduce other environmental stressors such as local sources of pollution into the ocean.
To solve these problems, it helps to have two instruments to hand: a carbon tax to discourage pollution directly, and subsidies or other incentives to encourage innovation around the cleaner input.
In its report, the bureau also cited lead pollution in the Kangqiao area from two other small companies that it said share the blame and have been closed.
There's also the lingering question of how much the U.S. can do to solve the problem alone, without other countries taking aggressive steps to curb their own pollution.
Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
The EPA last year issued the first-ever standards to control smog- and soot-forming gases from gas wells site, and updated existing rules to reduce cancer-causing pollution, such as benzene, from other equipment.
And that means that things like wind energy suddenly become more appealing because they don't produce those pollution -- those pollutants, and other sources of energy become less appealing because they do produce those pollutants.
In 2002, the state assembly passed a law regulating emissions of CO2 from vehicles, based on a provision of the Clean Air Act that allows California to adopt stricter pollution standards than the federal government (other states can then choose to follow the Californian standards if they wish).
ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court breathes down the government's neck
应用推荐