fine particle pollution
fine particulate pollution

Fine particle pollution is responsible for the death of 50,000 Americans every year.

Fine particle pollution remains a problem in winter and summer.

He claims fine particle pollution is the greatest concern because of lung damage.

Among these pollutants, fine particle pollution is an important as a cause of diesel's harmful health effects.

Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of so-called "fine particle pollution."

Passive smokers are exposed to more fine particle pollution.

Diesel vehicles and wood fires produce fine particle pollution (a brown haze).

Fine particle pollution comes from a variety of sources, the largest of which is coal-fired power plants, the report said.

In Sydney, for instance, fine particle pollution accounts for 397 premature deaths per year.

Wood-burning stoves and inserts put out vast amounts of fine particle pollution.

In fact, the benefits of reduced fine particle pollution account for most of the quantifiable gains from the new rules.

Fine particle pollution also registered new lows.

The new rules would also have the effect of reducing fine particle pollution, which is a known source of many health problems, from asthma to heart attacks.

Among those most sensitive to fine particle pollution are infants and children, the elderly and individuals with pre-existing heart and lung conditions.

During 1997, the EPA launched a significant community education campaign to reduce brown haze and fine particle pollution associated with solid fuel home heaters.

Motor vehicles, particularly those with diesel engines, are significantly disproportionate contributors of fine particle pollution and oxides of nitrogen.

But the environmental costs of boilers, which pump out 12 times the fine particle pollution of a certified wood stove, don't justify their owners' economic savings.

One in six people in the United States lives in an area with unhealthy year-round levels of fine particle pollution (termed annual average levels).

The findings showed that cutting fine particle pollution had the greatest effect on life expectancy in urban areas – possibly because of differences in particle composition.

"EPA has taken steps to reduce fine particle pollution across the country, in particular the National Clean Diesel Campaign.

Fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas) generate air pollution which contributes to global warming and climate change as well as fine particle pollution.

Fine particle pollution can penetrate deep into the lungs and has been linked to a wide range of serious health effects, including premature death, heart attacks, and strokes.

The problems we would address include: fine particle pollution, visibility degradation, ozone pollution, mercury deposition, acid rain, nitrate deposition and climate change.

Benzene levels in Perth's air exceed those of Sydney and Los Angeles and summer smog and fine particle pollution is a real health concern.

Recent research by the Harvard School of Public Health has shown that reducing fine particle pollution even by small amounts can lead to an increase in life expectancy.

Fine particulate pollution is considered a high priority issue in the region.

The plan must be corrected in order to comply with a new case that significantly changes the rules for fine particulate pollution.

Sulfur dioxide is the main contributor to acid rain and fine particulate pollution.

Thirty fire rings put out as much fine particulate pollution as a large oil refinery, he said.

Cars, power plants, iron smelters, and other industry all create ozone and fine particulate pollution.

London mayor Boris Johnson's traffic air-quality scheme cost £1m and does not reduce fine particulate pollution caused by cars.

This long-range transport effect is significant for ground-level ozone as well as for acid rain and fine particulate pollution.

Delhi, a city of 25 million people and nine million vehicles, routinely experiences fine particulate pollution above 300 micrograms per cubic metre.'

Propane and natural gas flames emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but they do not produce the fine particulate pollution associated with wood fires.

The agency set the new one-hour standard for nitrogen dioxide, which contributes to smog and fine particulate pollution, at a level of 100 parts per billion (ppb).

Beijing officials have now bowed to public pressure and said they will begin to provide readings of fine particulate pollution, the most damaging to human health, but only in 2016.

Air district officials acknowledge that a few hundred beach bonfires account for just a trace of the total fine particulate pollution sent into Southern California skies each year.

Researchers combined data from 35 studies and estimated that a modest reduction in fine particulate pollution levels could prevent 8,000 heart failure hospitalisations each year in the US.

People in Beijing endure a noxious and potentially dangerous mix of sand and fine particulate pollution on Thursday, after a sandstorm blew in from the Gobi Desert.

Only Stockholm was below the threshold of fine particulate pollution of 10 micrograms per cubic metre recommended by the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO), it found.

Car and truck exhaust is a major source of fine particulate pollution, a particular problem in Beijing, where the number of registered cars has skyrocketed from to 5 million from 3.5 million in 2008.

According to Ecopolis, in 2009 alone more than 300 people suffering from chronic respiratory diseases could have avoided being treated in hospital if the level of fine particulate pollution had been reduced in the Romanian capital.

This provision is similar to the one applicable to ozone, and would seem to be justified in view of the cross-border nature of fine particulate pollution (long range transmission of pollutants and importance of secondary particulates).

The nearly three-year probe, called Aphekom, found that Bucharest notched up 38.2 micrograms per cubic metre of fine particulate pollution when the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) threshold is set at ten.

With every 6 microgram per cubic meter increase in fine particulate pollution, for example, people were 26 percent more likely to have an AF episode in the next two hours, the study team reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The wood is a renewable resource, of course, but an evening’s fire can send a pound of dagger-shaped fine particulate pollution into the air, according to Mary Rozenberg, president of Clean Air Revival, a nonprofit organization that campaigns for the reduction of particulate pollution.

However, the increases in incidence of chronic bronchitis and decreases in lung function, capacity, growth and development that were shown in cohorts of children across North America after chronic or lifetime exposure to acidity, sulphate and fine particulate pollution, must be considered to be true chronic effects.

Regulators at the South Coast Air Quality Management District concede that the 765 fire rings in Los Angeles and Orange counties are responsible for a trifling amount of fine particulate pollution spewed into Southern California skies each year - and that doesn't include emissions from wildfires.