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London air pollution dangerously high, campaigners warn
2013-10-04 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution from traffic and industry is dangerously high in east London, according to tests by local "citizen scientists". Local environment groups placed 36 diffusion monitoring tubes on structures close to parks, bus stops, busy roads and in residential areas, to measure emissions in more than 30 streets. They were left for four weeks and only four were removed or stolen. Analysis by a laboratory used by government found that concentrations of the toxic exhaust pipe gas nitrogen dioxide...
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Over 100 scientists warn Ecuadorian Congress against oil development in Yasuni
2013-10-03 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Over 100 scientists have issued a statement to the Ecuadorian Congress warning that proposed oil development and accompanying roads in Yasuni National Park will degrade its "extraordinary biodiversity." The statement by a group dubbed the Scientists Concerned for Yasuni outlines in detail how the park is not only likely the most biodiverse ecosystems in the western hemisphere, but in the entire world. Despite this, the Ecuadorian government has recently given the go-ahead to plans to drill for oil...
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Lenders warn auto dealers about bias
2013-10-01 04:28:43| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Auto lenders are peppering dealerships with letters that say analyses of the dealerships' practices indicate a pattern of discrimination against minorities, women or the elderly in the loans they arrange for those customers.
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Government shutdown to hurt morale, former EPA officials warn
2013-09-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The looming federal shutdown is dredging up bad memories for U.S. EPA veterans who were on staff the last time the government shuttered. With less than 24 hours remaining until agencies could be forced to close, former Clinton administration officials are feeling déj vu after experiencing the shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 -- and they warn it could be even worse this time around. "I think it was unsettling, deeply unsettling," said Jon Cannon, who served as EPA general counsel during the last...
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IPCC Scientists Warn of Upper Limit on CO2 Emissions
2013-09-27 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Saying it is 95 percent certain that humans have caused most of the global warming of the last half-century, scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned today that the world can afford to burn about 1 trillion more tons of carbon before facing extreme climate change. The IPCCs working group on the physical sciences for the first time set an upper limit on CO2 emissions, contending that humanity can combust only one-third of the 3 trillion tons of fossil fuels that...
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