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Coal Ash Can Be Re-used, But Its Management Practices are Beset with Complications
2014-05-28 18:33:00| Waste Age
Grace Schwartz Certain types of coal ash, such as fly ash and flue gas desulfurization (FGD) solids, are useful as raw materials in making concrete and dry wall. But a significant fraction of coal ash can be enriched with potentially toxic and bioaccumulative elements such as arsenic, selenium and mercury. The tendency for these elements to leach from ash is one of the key aspects of environmental risk for coal ash disposal. read more
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Malawi beset by challenges despite AGOA provision
2013-12-04 18:50:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A decision last year by the US government to restore the third country fabric provision under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was welcomed by Malawi's government. But serious challenges have undermined the country's ability to take advantage of it.
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Indonesia: Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park Beset with Deforestation
2013-10-07 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tempo: Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGGP) chief Herri Subagidi said the national park had been grappling with environmental degradation for 35 years. He added many farmlands in the area had transformed into housing settlements since 2001. "In 1972, the green areas totaled 187 hectares and there were only few settlements and industrial areas. Exploitation activities were also few, but things have changed now,' he said at the Biosphere Conservation Administrator Dialog Forum recently. During...
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