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Poor nations urged to leapfrog harmful HFC refrigerants
2014-10-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has warned. HFCs were introduced following the 1989 Montreal Protocol as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which deplete the ozone layer, part of the atmosphere that helps to absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But while HFCs...
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'Fracking' Wastewater That Is Treated For Drinking Produces Potentially Harmful Compounds
2014-09-25 10:11:01| oilandgasonline Home Page
Concerns that fluids from hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” are contaminating drinking water abound. Now, scientists are bringing to light another angle that adds to the controversy. A new study, appearing in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, has found that discharge of fracking wastewaters to rivers, even after passage through wastewater treatment plants, could be putting the drinking water supplies of downstream cities at risk.
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Lapolla Industries Partners With White House To Reduce Harmful Greenhouse Gases And Fight Climate Change
2014-09-22 07:59:59| pollutiononline News Articles
At a ceremony this week in Washington, DC, The White House announced Lapolla Industries, Inc. as an official private sector partner of the President’s Climate Action Plan, recognizing the company’s efforts to curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are potent greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change
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NPPC Helps Pass Bill to Stop Harmful, Costly Rule
2014-09-10 00:15:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: National Pork Producers Council The U.S. House today voted 262-152 to approve legislation that would prevent the development and implementation of a regulation expanding the scope of the federal Clean Water Act to cover most of the countrys water bodies, ditches and gullies, a rule that would be particularly detrimental to agriculture. The National Pork Producers Council hailed the bills passage and will be urging the Senate to take similar action. read more
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Provides Funding to Target Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
2014-09-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will provide almost $12 million to federal and state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie. Funding builds upon GLRI’s on-going efforts to reduce algal blooms and will be made available to Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana state agencies and to U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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