Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2019
Cities restricted the number of cars on the road, coal-fired power plants reduced emissions or were shuttered and replaced with natural gas. pollution is falling, harmful ground-level ozone pollution is on the rise, especially in large cities. There was so much particulate matter in Chinese cities that it stunted the ozone production.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2017
Exposure to ozone, long associated with impaired lung function, is also connected to health changes that can cause cardiovascular disease such as heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, according to a new study of Chinese adults. The findings associated ozone exposure with markers of platelet activation and increased blood pressure.
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2015
VOCs and nitrogen oxides react with sunlight to form ground-level ozone, the main component of smog. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and NO x —compounds generated by the coal-burning plant—were in-line with government estimates, but emissions of VOCs, including ethanol, were higher than government estimates.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2011
Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and ventilation air from coal mines. Replacing coal by coal briquettes in cooking and heating stoves.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 21, 2009
Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Besides a danger to breathe, ozone lowers crop yields.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 27, 2020
billion in economic loss was 1.36% of the country’s gross domestic product, according to the report. and that due to ambient ozone pollution increased by 139.2%. The 2019 death toll attributed to air pollution in India accounted for 17.8%
Green Car Congress
JULY 24, 2009
A) shows the base case peak concentrations for O 3 (ozone), ClNO and HCl in parts-per-billion by volume (ppbv). (B) Under extreme circumstances, this previously unknown chemistry could account for up to 40 parts per billion (ppb) of ozone; the current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 8-hour average standard is 75 ppb.
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