Sentence examples for nitrous oxide pollution from inspiring English sources

Citizens' groups in communities near Heathrow fought hard for nearly a decade against the airport's runway expansion, complaining about noise and nitrous oxide pollution.

The short-term impacts have largely died down and the plane looks considerably better – helped along by a quirk of atmospheric chemistry which sees nitrous oxide pollution from the aircraft engines causing cooling during this period by destroying methane in the air.

But he conceded that the Central Valley, a flat, sun-baked, 275-mile-long stretch down the center of the state roughly from Sacramento to Bakersfield, needed to eliminate something like 300 tons of nitrous oxide pollution a day to meet federal clean-air standards.

So how do we get rid of nitrous oxide pollution?

They criticize the production of fake fur due to its use of non-renewable petroleum-based materials like nylon that take thousands of years to decompose and can cause nitrous-oxide pollution.

As governor, Christie Whitman spent about $500 million and considerable political capital to implement a more thorough method known as the dynamometer test, which uses a treadmill to measure carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide, so the state could attain pollution levels set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act.

The typical sequence in the development of oxidant pollution is an initial increase in nitrous oxide, followed by nitrogen dioxide, followed by ozone.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) toxicity and its impact on pollution lead to restrict its use.

This is important because urinary urea is quickly converted to ammonia and nitrous oxide (N2O), which has implications for environmental pollution, whereas faecal N is more likely to contribute to soil organic matter (Mueller-Harvey, 2006; Woodward et al., 2009).

In April the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) said that it planned to declare that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride emissions contributed to air pollution that endangered public health and welfare.

Behind the Numbers To find the cleanest cars on American roads, we looked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's scores for air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane).