A car can be driven as far on a gallon of the new plant-based fuel as a car can be driven on a gallon of gasoline, but a gallon of the plant-based fuel both costs less and results in less pollution.
Chinese government is poised to conduct its first national survey of pollution sources in February to help control environmental deterioration in the country.
The pollution state of NP and OP in this area was serious relatively, compared with Peal River delta; and medium or lower level compared with the similar areas abroad.
How it Helps: Its dense foliage excels at absorbing formaldehyde—the most prevalent indoor pollutant, says Wolverton—which shows up in wood floorboard resins and synthetic carpet dyes.
From 1958 onward, and as the city became more industrialized in the 1960s, the polluted stream and its Bridges were gradually buried under at-grade asphalt and a four-lane elevated freeway.
"The indoor environment was dirty long before energy conservation came along," says Moschandreas, a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland.
The unusually high mortality rate among dolphin calves in the industrially contaminated waters along Florida's Gulf Coast is probably the result of their being poisoned by their mother's milk.
It is thought that her diet, the amount she exercises, whether she smokes or drinks alcohol and even which pollutants she is exposed to can alter the DNA of her unborn child.