The process that smokestack "scrubbers" use to reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions creates high-quality synthetic gypsum, said Robert E.
If we believe environmental activist claims that carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, and particulate emissions to say nothing of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions are so bad for human health, natural gas production should be a no-brainer.
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Ertel was soon a big producer at Natsource, trading sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon and even weather derivatives.
"The marble and sandstone were being weathered by atmospheric fumes, including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, " Gopalakrashne says.
The Indiana-based utility is investing in the required equipment to reduce its sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury pollution.
It also releases double the other pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act that include sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
According to EPA, the levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide would have been cut in half under the cross-state rule.
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Originally scheduled to go into effect on January 1st, the rule would have required 27 upwind states to dramatically reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 2014.
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The two judges said that EPA has been overstepping its authority by requiring power companies to reduce their sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide levels at greater rates than what the law had intended.
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China is particularly struggling to curb what are known as secondary pollutants, formed when primary pollutants such as emitted sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, from coal burning and other sources undergo reactions in the atmosphere.
The national temperament is changing with the U.S. Congress enacting tougher rules on sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to clamp down on greenhouse gases.
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The report analyzed data for 2010 and found in that year that emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide were 68% lower than in 1990 and had fallen 32% and 31% respectively just since 2008.
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It must implement regulations that capture the environmental benefits of nuclear, such as low emissions of carbon dioxide as well as nitrogen and sulfur oxides.
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For important pollutants monitored by the EPA, natural gas power cuts carbon monoxide emissions by 81%, nitrogen oxide emissions by 80%, sulfur dioxide emissions by 99%, mercury emissions by 100%, and particulates by 99%.
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Media-fueled alarm about acid rain provided a basis for legislation to create markets for buying and selling excess sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide emission credits, and Project 88 became the Clean Air Act of 1990.
Power plants that burn coal produce more than 90 times as much sulfur dioxide, five times as much nitrogen oxide and twice as much carbon dioxide as those that run on natural gas, according to the Government Accountability Office, the regulatory arm of Congress.
They promise lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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According to the company it removes not just sulfur dioxide, but also carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
Natural gas power emits merely 20% of the carbon monoxide of coal power, 20% of the nitrogen oxides of coal power, less than 1% of the sulfur dioxide of coal power, less than 1% of the particulate matter of coal power and less than 1% of the mercury of coal power.
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