The lowest smog levels in 10 years were reported over many European countries, while they reached record levels in Hong Kong.
At the same time, the administration adopted a plan to encourage car companies over the next few years to sell large numbers of low-smog vehicles.
Hybrid manufacturers who aren't delivering the lowest smog-forming emissions have chosen not to do so".
Christie Whitman, the agency's administrator, notified members of Congress this week that she would seek court approval to postpone a requirement that utilities responsible for low-lying smog cut their pollutants significantly by May 2003.
English as no other industrial landscape, the white air hanging low over the smog-blackened bricks, northern as no other part of the country.
This engine, which is standard on all models except the ST in states that adhere to California's clean-air rules (including New York and much of the Northeast), is so clean that it rivals hybrid gas-electric cars in its low emissions of smog-producing pollutants.
London air pollution is some of the worst in Europe, but athletes are expected to suffer most in certain weather conditions brought on by a spell of hot weather when pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, react in sunlight to form a low-level ozone smog which can get trapped for several days.
Furthermore, low levels of smog-producing compounds are formed by its combustion (Wyman and Hinman1990).
It was a hazy morning, the sky low and heavy with smog, when my bus arrived at Ma Li's satellite city, twenty miles outside the Shenzhen fence.
Though not directly related to Morakot, the storm's cyclonic circulation helped in part to produce thick smog and low visibility conditions in parts of Hong Kong.
