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Stung by scandal, South Korea weighs up cost of curbing nuclear power
2013-10-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It started with a few bogus safety certificates for cables shutting a handful of South Korean nuclear reactors. Now, the scandal has snowballed, with 100 people indicted and Seoul under pressure to rethink its reliance on nuclear power. A shift away from nuclear, which generates a third of South Korea's electricity, could cost tens of billions of dollars a year by boosting imports of liquefied natural gas, oil or coal. Although helping calm safety concerns, it would also push the government...
Supreme Court to review EPA rules on curbing global warming gases from factories, power plants
2013-10-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether to block key aspects of the Obama administration's plan aimed at cutting power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. The justices said they will review a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulation of carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases. The question in the case is whether the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate automobile emissions...
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State DEQ provides update on curbing St. Bernard's sulfur dioxide emissions
2013-09-12 05:58:41| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Chalmette Vista monitoring station, which picked up the majority of the sulphur dioxide overages.
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Beijing issues new measures aimed at curbing air pollution
2013-09-02 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Beijing unveiled yet another slew of measures on Monday to curb a choking pollution problem, including limiting the number of new vehicles on the roads and closing or upgrading the facilities of 1,200 companies. China's smoggy capital has tried everything from shutting factories to a massive subway building program as it battles a severe air pollution problem, but with little apparent effect. The latest measures are part of a broader plan to reduce the Chinese capital's density of harmful particles...
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Curbing Methane and Soot Not as Helpful as Previously Thought, Study Suggests
2013-08-13 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Reducing the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane may be as effective in limiting global warming as previously thought, a new analysis led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) suggests. Soot, also known as black carbon, is largely given off by vehicles and wood stoves while methane, a component of natural gas, is released from a wide range of sources, including coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills....
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