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  • noun Plural form of airshed.

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Examples

  • No one is going to strand their assets by stopping them from dumping their mercury, coal ash, and carbon dioxide into their neighbors 'yards, waters, and airsheds!

    Carl Pope: Who's Stranded Now? 2009

  • Solutions to the coastal eutrophication problem require changes in all these activities within the watersheds and airsheds connected to coastal waters.

    Eutrophication 2007

  • We should vastly expand the fight for dean air with a total attack on pollution at its sources, and -- because air, like water, does not respect manmade boundaries -- we should set up "regional airsheds" throughout this great land.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • We should vastly expand the fight for dean air with a total attack on pollution at its sources, and -- because air, like water, does not respect manmade boundaries -- we should set up "regional airsheds" throughout this great land.

    State of the Union Address 1940

  • Implementing the standard in 2013 with mandatory offsets will also enable regional councils to reduce pollution in over allocated airsheds more quickly, and this will save thousands of lives.

    All content jgenter 2010

  • The mandatory offset scheme should eventually be phased out, with industry regulations requiring that resource consents be denied if they increase pollution in over-allocated airsheds.

    All content jgenter 2010

  • The benefit to citizens of urban airsheds is enormous.

    rediff.com 2010

  • The current NES on air quality does nothing to set a bottom line regulation of particulate emissions from industry in airsheds that are not monitored or do not breech the standard.

    All content jgenter 2010

  • Solutions to the coastal eutrophication problem require changes in all these activities within the watersheds and airsheds connected to coastal waters.

    Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth 2010

  • Forty-nine percent of New Zealanders currently live in 26 airsheds that breech the national air quality standards.

    All content jgenter 2010

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