Environment
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Soot Pollution Hastens Climate Changes ... Soot pollution from southern Asia appears to be contributing to climate changes at the North Pole, according to a study by NASA scientists. ... The pollution is raising atmospheric temperatures and speeding up the melting of snow and sea ice, the researchers said.
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In other cases, gases such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides interact with other compounds in the air to form fine particles. These tiny bits of soot can travel hundreds of miles downwind of the original pollution sources.
www.cleanairtrust.org/particulatesoot.html www.cleanairtrust.org/particulatesoot.html
Particulate Pollution Combined With Airborne Soot Adds To Global Warming (June 30, 2009) — Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123075628.htm
[YOGYAKARTA] Air pollution from ozone and soot over Asia is twice the global average and is especially strong over tropical regions, a scientist told government representatives of 20 Asian countries at a meeting last week.
www.scidev.net/en/news/ozone-soot-pollution-rising-over... www.scidev.net/en/news/ozone-soot-pollution-rising-over-asia.html
Pollution Question: What Are Recreational Causes Of Soot Pollution? First of all use of charcoal is the greatest source of soot. Especially in many countries charcoal is used for cooking and camp fires ... Need to find arguments related to soot pollution.
www.blurtit.com/q372320.html
NJPIRG supports the passage of S1759 and SCR113 because of the immediate importance of addressing the public health risk from diesel soot pollution from diesel school buses, transit buses, garbage trucks and other public diesel vehicles.
www.environmentnewjersey.org/legislature/testimony/clea... www.environmentnewjersey.org/legislature/testimony/clean-air/clean-air/diesel-soot-pollution-from-public-diesel-vehicles
A coalition of 18 states and cities, led by the State of New York, claimed a major victory in their challenge of the Bush standards for fine soot pollution that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said wholly failed to protect public health, particularly for children, elderly people and other vulnerable populations.
www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2009/2009-02-25-093.asp
Soot pollution causes about 5,000 premature deaths each year in Pennsylvania and an estimated 500,000 asthma attacks, according to a report issued yesterday by an environmental group.
www.post-gazette.com/pg/06096/679794-113.stm
While air quality has improved in the U.S. since the inception of the Clean Air Act in 1970, more than 88 million Americans still live in areas with unsafe levels of fine particle pollution.
www.uspirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/clean-air/c... www.uspirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/clean-air/clean-air/plagued-by-pollution-unsafe-levels-of-soot-pollution-in-2004
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