But it will also create new jobs, building and installing all sorts of pollution control technology.
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Other green initiatives included promoting fuel-efficient vehicles, rail transport, electricity grid improvements, and pollution control.
Consequently, pollution control technology manufactures cannot provide guarantees that companies installing their equipment will be in compliance.
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Existing pollution control technologies have demonstrated their mettle, and they need to be further deployed throughout the nation.
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It supports municipal wastewater facilities, estuary protection projects, and nonpoint source pollution control.
Most are "small, old, and lack advanced pollution control equipment, " the study found.
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On Monday, Sterlite said the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had ordered it shut after locals complained of breathing problems.
In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that mercury emissions from coal plants totaled 1, 850 pounds per year.
Air in San Diego County remains unhealthy, especially in Oceanside and Chula Vista, said Bill Brick, senior meteorologist for the Air Pollution Control District.
Many Midwest coal plants were built back in the Eisenhower and Kennedy years, and have not yet been retrofitted with modern pollution control equipment.
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By installing pollution control equipment that cut all of its releases that include mercury, it avoided significant legal battles while also improving its system reliability.
Installing modern and widely-available pollution control technologies can reduce more than 90% of the mercury pollution that is harming both children's health and our environment.
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Because of the smoke, ash and winds, people in affected areas were urged to be cautious and to avoid unnecessary outdoor activities, the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District said.
In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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Air pollution control devices were mandated on cars.
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These standards were called for by the Clean Air Act Amendments more than 20 years ago and level the playing field for the many utilities that have already invested in modern mercury pollution control technologies.
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The Beijing News backs a proposal by the capital's mayor to follow the example of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions and set up a joint air pollution control system between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
These companies, and some unions that see the rules as a potential economic catalyst, say that the industry has had years to prepare for tougher regulation and that the rules will generate jobs for workers who make, install or operate pollution control equipment.
The other was a much larger gathering of people from what we would now call civil society, or environmental campaign groups, who used the now familiar smorgasbord of marches, song, demonstrations and dialogue to press issues from pollution control to civil rights to vegetarianism.
William Hite, general president of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, says that while his union is "certainly concerned" about the potential for job losses, the mercury rule could also create thousands of jobs for workers who build and install pollution control equipment.
Fab 15 will be TSMC's next "green fab" following Fab 12 and Fab 14, incorporating green concepts in energy conservation and pollution control in its design, including a process water conservation rate of 85%, reclamation of rainwater, recirculation and reuse of general exhaust heat, and development of solar power generation and LED lighting applications.
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Ms. VICKIE PATTON (Environmental Defense): EPA has, in a number of instances, taken a step back from its proposal and instead will allow some of these high-polluting, older coal plants to continue to discharge smog-forming and haze-forming pollution at a level that doesn't really reflect what today's modern pollution control technology can, in fact, achieve.
Singapore's hawker centres started partly for hygiene reasons, and to keep our water pollution in control.
Your expression to those brands, as a consumer, can be a powerful, powerful help to our pollution-control efforts.
However, yet another study published this year suggests it is going away as anti-sulphur pollution-control measures kick in.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.
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Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
For example, our New Jersey coal plants with their various pollution-control systems have been able to reduce, by over 90 percent, emissions of mercury, acid gases and soot.
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So companies in rich nations meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, while money flows to poor countries, which can then buy pollution-control technology at the lowest possible cost.
"If we don't control pollution, we're going to have serious problems, " says Li.
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