toxic air pollution
111Volatile organic compound — Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at ordinary, room temperature conditions. Their high vapor pressure results from a low boiling point, which causes large numbers of molecules to evaporate or… …
112Environmental impact of oil shale industry — includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution. Surface mining of oil shale deposits has all the environmental impacts of open pit mining. In addition, the combustion and thermal processing… …
113Geography of Armenia — Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey. The terrain is mostly mountainous and flat,… …
114Biofilter — Biofiltration is a pollution control technique using living material to capture and biologically degrade process pollutants. Common uses include processing waste water, capturing harmful chemicals or silt from surface runoff, and microbiotic… …
115Kochi — This article is about the city in India. For other uses, see Kochi (disambiguation). Cochin redirects here. For other uses, see Cochin (disambiguation). Kochi (Cochin) കൊച്ചി …
116Fly ash — Photomicrograph made with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM): Fly ash particles at 2,000x magnification Fly ash is one of the residues generated in combustion, and comprises the fine particles that rise with the flue gases. Ash which does not… …
117Butte, Montana — Infobox Settlement official name = Butte, Montana nickname = Richest Hill on Earth map caption = Location of Butte in Montana subdivision type = County subdivision name = Silver Bow area footnotes = area magnitude = 1 E9 area total km2 = 1856.5… …
118Summers memo — The Summers memo was an excerpt of a 1991 memo signed by Lawrence Summers (though actually written by an aide, Lant Pritchett) who was, at the time, Chief Economist of the World Bank.In this excerpt, the memo advanced an economic argument for the …
119New Source Performance Standard — New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are pollution control standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The term is used in the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (CAA) to refer to air pollution emission standards …
120Agence De Protection De L'environnement Des États-Unis — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Agence de protection de l environnement. Environmental Protection Agency …
