Sentence examples for pollution improvements from inspiring English sources

Other challenges include: global problems, such as long-range transport of pollutants, climate change; real-world-exposures (including indoor air pollution); improvements in technologies to remove difficult-to-treat pollutants; and addressing the growing number of mobile sources.

Give plants that have installed state-of-the-art pollution control equipment a 10-year exemption from having to make further pollution improvements.

Government plans to delay air pollution improvements in 12 UK areas have been refused by the European Commission, which says air quality must improve.

Other benefits would include a significant cut in global warming and other air pollution, improvements in public health, and more disposable income for every energy consumer in the country.

The onset of the primary pollution (the base of the polluted strata) is hence clearly identified in the distal floodplain sediments as persistent and a potentially isochronous pollution signal in the fluvial record, whereas a secondary pollution signal overwrites the expected "primary pollution climax" and "pollution improvement" signals.

The good news is that outlines of a legislative deal to strengthen the current system appear to be emerging, likely including new guardrails to create confidence about local air pollution improvement matched by cost-containment controls.

Southern, which has headquarters in Atlanta, contends that anti-pollution improvements it is installing at its plants take time, because it has to make sure that the environmental science is sound and that the regulatory requirements are fair before investing billions of dollars.

A review of Scandinavian studies [19] showed noise- and air-pollution improvements after the implementation of pedestrian streets.

Opponents said that provision would let plants ignore pollution technology improvements that came in the 10-year period.

The settlement, which resolves a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency in May 2007, requires the company to pay $20 million in civil penalties and invest an additional $10 million in pollution control improvements at its 44 mines and coal facilities in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.

Talking to Britons about car ownership is "like talking to an American about hand guns", quips one air-pollution scientist.Some improvements have been made.