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Pork Producers Receive Environmental Stewards Award Recognition
2014-03-10 20:32:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Pork Checkoff Four farms were honored as recipients of the Pork Industry Environmental Stewards Award at the annual National Pork Industry Forum in Kansas City, MO, last week. The award, now in its 20th year, recognizes producers who demonstrate a firm commitment to safeguarding the environment and to serving their local communities. read more
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EcoVision Environmental launches waste storage products
2014-03-10 15:23:00| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines
EcoVision Environmental has launched a new line of waste storage products that focus on high-capture, high participation and low contamination.
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China prepares next wave of environmental regulations
2014-03-10 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The Chinese government is poised to further strengthen a host of green regulations, raising the prospect of major new environmental taxes or fines for polluters. A new report published yesterday confirmed long-anticipated plans to revise the country's 1989 Environmental Law to give regulators more teeth and potentially impose significant new financial penalties on those firms that contribute most to the country's ongoing smog crisis. According to Reuters' reports, the revised law would make...
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Peru to eliminate key environmental rule for oil and gas firms, says minister
2014-03-08 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Peruvian government is planning a new law loosening the social and environmental checks on companies exploring for oil and gas, according to a controversial announcement by the Energy Minister. Current law states that companies must research and write Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) of proposed operations before submitting them to the government for approval and then beginning exploration. However, Energy Minister Eleodoro Mayorga Alba announced this week that oil and gas companies...
Over 95 pct of Chinese cities failed to meet environmental standards: minister
2014-03-08 08:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Almost all Chinese cities monitored for pollution last year failed to meet state standards, the vice-minister of environmental protection said on Saturday as he outlined the country's plans to redress the environmental consequences of rapid industrialization. Out of the 74 cities that Beijing monitored, 71 had various degrees of problems, Wu Xiaoqing said at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual parliament session in Beijing. Only Haikou in the island province of Hainan, the Tibetan...
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