A plan by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to put hundreds of new diesel-powered buses on New York City streets in the next five years is drawing determined resistance from environmentalists and legislators, who say it will increase smog and health problems.
13 NEW YORK/REGION 27-33 Environmentalists Criticize Plan to Buy Diesel Buses A plan by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to order hundreds of diesel-powered buses for New York City is drawing resistance from environmentalists and legislators, who say it will increase smog and health problems.
What is more, making corn ethanol consumes vast quantities of water and increases smog.
Mr. Rattner claims that ethanol "consumes vast quantities of water and increases smog".
Tells how efforts to improve the air in LA by requiring pollution-control devices on automobiles, in 1966, resulted in a chemical reaction that increased smog in the Inland Empire.
She added that, given the potential for expanded heat waves, increased smog, migrating pathogens and other ills associated with a warming planet, "It's more important to focus on the effects global warming has on our bodies, rather than the effects that our bodies have on global warming emissions".
The UHI has a serious impact on the energy consumption of buildings, increases smog production, while contributing to an increasing emission of pollutants from power plants, including sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides and suspended particulates.
The Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1955 [ CAA 1955; summarized in U.S. EPA (1993a)] was created to ameliorate increasing smog problems, as exemplified by the Donora Smog of 1948 (Davis 2002).
The historic 1952 pollution episode in London, when a rapid increase in smog led to dramatic increases in daily mortality, including infant mortality (Her Majesty's Public Health Service 1954), stimulated early studies into the effect of air pollution on population health.
In an August 2004 report titled Harboring Pollution: Strategies to Clean Up U.S. Ports, the NRDC noted that besides direct threats to human health, growing harbor traffic could increase regional smog, threaten water quality and public lands, and increase noise and light pollution.
The school, called the 3e International School, also brings in doctors to talk about pollution and bars the children from playing outdoors during increases in smog levels.
