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EPA Proposes Updates to Reduce Methane, Other Harmful Pollution from New Landfills
2014-07-01 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, U.S. EPA is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. This proposal would require certain landfills to capture 2/3 of their methane and air toxics emissions by 2023 – 13% more than required currently. Also, EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) seeking public feedback on how and whether to update guidelines for existing landfills. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Rules to cut carbon emissions also reduce air pollution harmful to people, environment
2014-05-27 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Setting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus -- reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick; damage forests, crops, and lakes; and harm fish and wildlife. This, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today by scientists at Syracuse University and Harvard who mapped the potential environmental and human health benefits of power plant carbon standards. The authors of the new study, "Co-benefits of Carbon Standards:...
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EPA finds Exide Technologies lead-acid battery recycling plant a source of harmful lead emissions
2014-05-23 12:30:42| Green Car Congress
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Campaigners say shortcomings in EU carbon permit data harmful
2014-05-19 09:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Investors and environmental campaigners have criticised the European Union for no longer revealing the types of foreign carbon credits each company is using to help meet emission regulations. The lobbyists say the lack of access could discourage future investment in carbon-cutting projects and make it more difficult for companies to select schemes they judge to be more environmentally robust or that have additional benefits such as alleviating poverty. On Thursday the European Commission published...
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Cigarettes: Harmful to the Environment, Not Just to Your Health
2014-05-08 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Cigarettes are universally known to be a health hazard, but the nasty habit of lighting up is harmful to more than just your body. Large-scale littering of cigarette filters, used butts, packaging and matches is also detrimental to the environment, and researchers behind a review article in the journal Current Environmental Health Reports are rallying to establish policy measures to lessen the impact of smoking-related litter. Thomas Novotny of the San Diego State University and Elli Slaughter...
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