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Lead Pamphlet from the EPA (PDF)
2013-02-05 18:52:56| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 690kbCategory: Resources & Education
EPA Updates Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Large Facilities
2013-02-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA posted second year of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data on its website, which provides public access to emissions data by sector, GHG, and geographic region. EPA's Gina McCarthy commented that this second data release will let people track and compare facilities' GHG emissions and identify opportunities to cut pollution, minimize wasted energy, and save money. Collected in 2011, data includes information from facilities in 41 source categories and 12 additional source categories. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Outgoing EPA chief convinced Obama serious on climate change
2013-02-04 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The departing chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, says she cringes whenever she is asked if President Barack Obama is truly serious about confronting climate change. Of course he is, she tells them. "I don't think you need clues. The president has been really clear ... I'm not sure how much clearer he could be." And yet even Jackson herself was caught off guard last month, when sitting just steps from Obama during his second-term swearing-in, the president cited...
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Arizona sues U.S. EPA over coal power plant emissions
2013-02-04 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Arizona challenged in federal court U.S. environmental regulators efforts to force Arizona power companies to spend up to $1 billion to install pollution control equipment at three coal plants to reduce haze in the region's national parks. Arizona's Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement last week the emission control measures proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would not affect health or be reduce emissions visible to the human eye. "This is an absurd action that...
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Coal-Burning Utilities Seek a Role in EPA Rule-Making on GHG Emissions
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Lobbyists for coal-burning utilities such as Southern Co. and Duke Energy are consulting environmental advocates and holding strategy sessions as they seek a role in shaping President Obama's plan to combat climate change. Obama's emphasis on global warming in his inaugural address last month has led power and coal producers, which have fought regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, to begin crafting their own proposed rules. "It was the hope of a lot of companies in this...
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