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Riverbend Landfill: Another reason to reform Oregon's DEQ
2016-03-10 02:28:46| Waste Management - Topix.net
Riverbend Landfill: As someone who has been battling Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality for more than eight years over air and water pollution in Yamhill County, I was shocked but not surprised that DEQ has so miserably failed to protect the people of Portland from air contamination. Portland's deteriorating air quality has been news for years, with benzene a principal offender.
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The Bizarre Reason Greenland Is Getting Darker Each Year
2016-03-03 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: Greenland is one of the brightest spots on planet Earth, but ominously enough, its gleaming surface darkens with each passing year, thanks to a strange series of physical processes, one of which cannot be seen with the naked eye. According to a fascinating new study led by Columbia's Earth Institute and published today the journal The Cryosphere, which finds that Greenland's "albedo," or reflectivity, has been decreasing since the mid 90s. By the end of the 21st century, Greenland could be ten...
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Study helps narrow down one reason why clouds are hard to model
2016-03-03 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Airborne particles known as "aerosols" strongly impact the way clouds form and change, but accurately capturing this effect in computer climate models has proved to be notoriously difficult. A new study in the Proceedings on the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition online Feb. 26 suggests why-either the models are failing to capture in sufficient detail the processes at work in clouds, or aerosols are now so pervasive in the atmosphere thanks to modern-day pollution that their specific effects...
'No reason for pessimism,' Fiat
2016-03-01 16:45:14| Automakers - Topix.net
Geneva, March 1 - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday he saw "no reason for pessimism" in light of February's sales figures. "February was a decent month for sales both in Canada and the United States, as well as in Europe and Italy," Marchionne said.
Vacant home fire gives investigators - reason to pause'
2016-02-23 12:47:41| Real Estate - Topix.net
The cause of a vacant house fire warranted additional investigation after flames leaped from a home at 1910 N. 22nd St. Monday afternoon. Fire crews were called to the home after reports of seeing flames coming out of the building at 12:49 p.m., Assistant Fire Chief Don Yeager said.
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