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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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Diageo Sips Savings in Whisky Carbon Emissions Footprint
2013-09-12 04:20:10| Footwear - Topix.net
A large carbon footprint, as it turns out. While London-based Diageo Plc won't say exactly how much, the world's largest distiller last year produced 701,000 metric tons of carbon emissions, equal to about 0.6 pounds for each bottle sold, or what comes out of your car's tailpipe over three-fourths of a mile.
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Trial begins against BP over Texas refinery emissions
2013-09-11 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Trial began on Wednesday in the first four of 48,000 civil lawsuits filed against BP Plc for pollution from the 460,196 barrel per day (bpd) refinery it owned in Texas City, Texas until early this year, according to court documents. The four suits allege that people were harmed when the refinery released vapors into the atmosphere from its hydrocracking unit during a 40-day period in 2010. The city had a population of 45,099 in 2010, according to the U.S. Census. Since the first lawsuits were...
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Breaking: MEPs vote tackle biofuel emissions from 2020
2013-09-11 13:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: MEPs have today approved a cap on the production of food crop-based biofuels and backed plans to measure indirect emissions from 2020. A European Parliament vote in Strasbourg confirmed fuels derived from food crops such as wheat, corn, or sugar cannot contribute more than six per cent towards the bloc's 2020 goal of sourcing 10 per cent of transport energy from renewable sources. MEPs also backed a 2.5 per cent share for advanced biofuels, which are derived from feedstocks such as algae or waste....
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Continuous emissions monitoring sailing into murky waters?
2013-09-11 01:10:00| Ship Technology
Fulfilling requirements set down by international and national environmental monitors has become a core strategic interest for the shipping industry, as a new era of emissions monitoring legislation sails into view. To find out more about these regul
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