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EPA Releases EJSCREEN, An Environmental Justice Screening And Mapping Tool
2015-06-15 05:59:53| pollutiononline Home Page
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released EJSCREEN, an environmental justice screening and mapping tool that uses high resolution maps combined with demographic and environmental data to identify places with potentially elevated environmental burdens and vulnerable populations.
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EPA releases environmental justice screening and mapping tool.
2015-06-12 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA has released EJSCREEN, which uses high-resolution maps combined with demographic and environmental data to identify places with potentially elevated environmental burdens and vulnerable populations. Color-coded maps, bar charts, and reports enable users to better understand areas in need of increased environmental protection, health care access, housing, infrastructure improvement, community revitalization, and climate resilience.
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EPA Seen Siding With Engine Makers in Truck Efficiency Rules
2015-06-11 20:04:26| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Daimler AG and Volvo AB are among truckmakers poised to get a European Union antitrust complaint for suspected collusion, according to three people with knowledge of the probe. Photographer: Guenter Schiffmann/Bloomberg The Obama administration is poised to deliver a victory to engine makers at the expense of truck manufacturers in the next stage of the U.S. government's plan to tackle climate change.
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EPA moves toward limits on emissions from US airlines
2015-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Wednesday to start the process of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nations fleet of commercial aircraft, a long-desired objective of environmental groups. But some fear the ultimate approach may prove too weak. The agency released a proposed endangerment finding, meaning that it is suggesting that aircraft engines may contribute to the air pollution that causes climate change and endangers public health and welfare. Thats what the...
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EPA takes first steps toward regulating commercial aviation GHGs with endangerment finding under CAA
2015-06-11 10:55:37| Green Car Congress
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