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Debunking 3 Myths About U.S. Emissions
2013-02-20 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: The national conversation around climate change has resumed. In both the Inauguration and State of the Union addresses, President Obama devoted considerable time to the issue, including his declaration that we must do more to combat climate change. For some, this call to action may come as a surprise, as multiple recent reports have hailed falling U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, for example, found that carbon dioxide emissions in the United States dropped 13 percent...
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China to limit air emissions in six industries
2013-02-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China will impose emission limits on six polluting industries including coal-fired power plants and steel and petrochemical factories as soon as March 1 to improve air quality in major cities. China must strictly impose the limits to improve air quality, according to a statement posted on the Ministry of Environmental Protection website today that cited a meeting headed by Minister Zhou Shengxian. Existing plants and new thermal power, steel, oil, cement, metal and chemical projects in 47 cities...
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Australia: CO2 Emissions Soaked Up By CSIRO Solar Sponge
2013-02-20 07:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A group of scientists at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia`s national science agency, have created a "solar sponge" using a metal organic framework (MOF) that absorbs carbon dioxide, but releases it when exposed to sunlight. The journal Angewandte Chemie published a paper detailing MOF. The interaction is known as dynamic photo-switching. The capture-and-release method of dynamic photo-switching requires only UV light to trigger the release of collected...
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Emissions trading scheme: EU committee passes 'rescue' reforms
2013-02-19 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Reforms aimed at rescuing the European Union's landmark carbon-cutting mechanism, the emissions trading scheme (ETS), are back on track after attacks from business lobbyists and Conservatives. A key committee of the European parliament judged in favour of the reforms on Tuesday, meaning that they will move on to be debated by the whole parliament, probably in April. However, it was unclear on Tuesday whether there would be an additional stage of scrutiny before the parliamentary vote, during which...
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New Tool Calculates Air Emissions Treatment Costs
2013-02-19 15:37:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: University of Minnesota Owners and operators of livestock and poultry operations have a new tool to calculate the costs and benefits of installing technologies to treat odors and gases emitted from the facilities: a feedlot air emissions treatment cost calculator. The calculator comes with three how-to videos. read more
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