It has established a Ministry of Nature Protection and introduced taxes for air and water pollution and solid waste disposal, whose revenues are used for environmental protection activities.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

By 1980 the infrequency of sightings of Mount Ararat, which looms about sixty kilometers across the Turkish border, became a symbol of worsening air pollution in Yerevan.

Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

It has established a Ministry of Environment and has introduced a pollution fee system by which taxes are levied on air and water emissions and solid waste disposal. The resulting revenues are used for unknown purposes.

The heavy reliance on automobiles for transportation in Atlanta has resulted in traffic, commute, and air pollution rates that rank among the worst in the country.

To achieve this goal at the lowest cost to society, the program employs both regulatory and market based approaches for controlling air pollution.

Jasmuheen stated that she failed on the first day of the test because the hotel room in which she was confined was located near a busy road, causing stress and pollution that prevented absorption of required nutrients from the air.

" Brooks claims to have found " four major deterrents " which prevented him from living without food: " people pollution ", " food pollution ", " air pollution " and " electro pollution ".

: Deforestation, largely a result of the clearing of land for cattle ranching ; soil erosion ; coastal marine pollution ; fisheries protection ; solid waste management ; air pollution

Bicycles provide numerous benefits compared to motor vehicles, including exercise, an alternative to the use of fossil fuels, no air or noise pollution, much reduced traffic congestion, easier parking, greater maneuverability, and access to both roads and paths.

One concern often expressed ( both by non-cyclists and some cyclists ) is the thought that riding in traffic exposes the cyclist to higher levels of air pollution, especially if he or she travels on or along busy roads.

The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, often abbreviated as Air Pollution or CLRTAP, is intended to protect the human environment against air pollution and to gradually reduce and prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution.

He burst from the hot confinement of the room into the cold night air.

He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.

Cool air moving slowly through the open or smashed-out side windows hinted of blooming roadside vegetation, and occasionally a faint fragrance of perfume swirled from the back seat.

Ramey's fist and the air expelled from the man's collapsing cheek made a hollow pop in the air like cupped hands clapping together.

A pervading quality of free lyricism and a building from turns close to the ground towards jumps into the air gives the work its central focus.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

The results of the study, based on collision integrals computed from the latest critically evaluated data on intermolecular forces in air, will be reported in the form of a table of viscosity, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusion, and diffusion coefficients at temperatures of 1,000 to 10,000 Af and of logarithm of pressure in atmospheres from Af to Af times normal density.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

Home air conditioning has come a long way from the early days of overcooled theaters and the thermal shock they inflicted.

A relatively simple switching arrangement reverses the cycle so that the machine literally runs backward, and the heat is extracted from outdoor air and turned indoors.

In the lower center rack an 8-channel recorder indicates the percentage of carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the upper and lower lobes of one lung, the total volume of inhalation per breath, the flow of air from both lobes, and the pressure of the two lobes with respect to each other.

Inflow of air from the surrounding atmosphere was prevented by the two disks shown in figure 2.

To reduce heat transfer from the hot gas to this anode holder outside the regime of the arc, a carbon shield was attached to the surface providing an air gap of 1/16 inch between the plate and the surface of the anode holder.

It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.

For protein identification, fractions from the column were concentrated by pervaporation against a stream of air at 5-degrees-C or by negative pressure dialysis in an apparatus which permitted simultaneous concentration of the protein and dialysis against isotonic saline.

Theoretically, they are capable of extracting their required oxygen either from the surrounding air ( Ghoreyeb and Karsner, '13 ) or from pulmonary arterial blood ( Comroe, '58 ).

as he spoke I was reminded of the great bales of cargo which are swung, high in the air, from a docked steamship.

Spoilage by chemical action results from the reaction of one group of components in the food with others or with its environment, as in corrosion of the walls of metal containers or the reaction of fats with oxygen in the air to produce rancidity.

Aeronautics ( from Greek ὰήρ āēr which means " air " and ναυτική nautikē which means " navigation, Airmanship ", i. e. " navigation of the air ") is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmosphere.

Michelin has an important truck tire manufacturing plant in Waterville and the Department of National Defence has its largest air force base in Atlantic Canada located at CFB Greenwood along with an important training facility at Camp Aldershot, near Kentville.

Cement manufacturing releases CO < sub > 2 </ sub > in the atmosphere both directly when calcium carbonate is heated, producing lime and carbon dioxide, and Eco-cement can absorb carbon dioxide from ambient air during hardening.

He created many sub-departments and committees, overseeing and regulating everything from manufacturing statistics, the census and radio, to air travel.

Industrial pollution is a bigger concern in Kazakhstan's manufacturing cities, where aging factories pump huge quantities of unfiltered pollutants into the air and groundwater.

The rapid progress of the initial German air and land attacks into the Soviet Union made Red Army logistical support difficult, because many depots, and most of the USSR's industrial manufacturing base lay in the country's invaded western half, obliging their reestablishment east of the Ural Mountains.

The turbocharger was invented by Swiss engineer Alfred Büchi ( 1879-1959 ), the head of diesel engine research at Gebruder Sulzer engine manufacturing company in Winterhur, who received a patent in 1905 for using a compressor driven by exhaust gasses to force air into a diesel engine to increase power output but it took another 20 years for the idea to come to fruition.

A different kind of vacuum cooker is used in the candy manufacturing industry to cook candies at low air pressures.

* Carrier Corporation, the air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturing division of United Technologies, named after its founder, Willis Carrier

For example, manufacturing or transportation cause air pollution imposing costs on others when making use of public air.

For example, manufacturing that causes air pollution imposes costs on the whole society, while fire-proofing a home improves the fire safety of neighbors.

Today the city is a small manufacturing center whose products include furniture, clothing, automobile parts, and air conditioners and heating units.

Around 1820, the Japanese inventor Kunitomo Ikkansai developed various manufacturing methods for guns, and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge (" rangaku ") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima.

Mac Process ( formally MAC Equipment ) is also a large employer in the area, manufacturing bulk material handling and air filtration equipment.

** Domestic steel has had the steepest decline of total air emissions among nine major manufacturing sectors.

Among other advancements, NACA research and development produced the NACA duct, a type of air intake used in modern automotive applications, the NACA cowling and several series of NACA airfoils which are still used in aircraft manufacturing.

An externality occurs when a transaction causes costs or benefits to a third party, often, although not necessarily, from the use of a public good: for example, if manufacturing or transportation cause air pollution imposing costs on others when making use of public air.

In a chemical manufacturing plant, reactions are routinely conducted under nitrogen even if they are not sensitive to air, to minimize fire hazards.

* Little Trees air fresheners were invented in Watertown in 1951 ; now the city is home to the Car-Freshner Corporation headquarters and manufacturing plant.

The Scarecrow proposes manufacturing a flying beast called a Gump by which they can escape through the air.

He has worked to balance clean air legislation with the need to protect manufacturing jobs.