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The largest, dirtiest coal plant west of the Mississippi announces major closures
2016-07-13 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two coal-burning units that the Sierra Club calls "the largest, dirtiest coal plant west of the Mississippi" will close by 2022, according to a settlement reached between the coal plant`s operators and environmental groups. These closures, reports the Sierra Club, will reduce carbon emissions to the tune of 5 million tons per year, the equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the road. The plant in Colstrip, Mont., has supplied energy across the state and the Pacific Northwest since the 1970s....
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Clean air advocate: California has nation's dirtiest air
2016-04-20 03:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Millions of Californians live in places with dirty air, according to an annual report card issued Wednesday that ranks two major urban areas in the state as the nation's most polluted. Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles spewed by highway traffic, diesel trucks, farm equipment and fireplaces, the American Lung Association's State of the Air 2016 report says. Los Angeles remains the nation's leader in harmful ozone pollution from car tailpipes emitting...
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Drinking fountain buttons the dirtiest in airports, says Travelmath report
2015-09-09 14:10:00| Airport Technology
Drinking fountain buttons are the dirtiest places in an airport, with 1,240 colony-forming units (CFU) per square inch, compared to 172CFU on a home toilet.
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50 Dirtiest U.S. Power Plants Huge Contributor to Carbon Emissions
2014-09-18 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: U.S. power plants are an outsized contributor to the world`s carbon pollution, a new report released by Environment America Research & Policy Center and the Frontier Group says. It found that in 2012, they added more climate change-causing carbon to the environment than the entire economies of any nation other than China. The report, "America`s Dirtiest Power Plants: Polluter on a Global Scale," demonstrated that U.S. power plants produced more than six percent of worldwide global warming emissions....
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Dirtiest Fuel Threatens 700-Year-Old Villages in Europe: Energy
2014-08-06 07:20:59| Appliances - Topix.net
Europe's energy dilemma -- burning the dirtiest coal while meeting pollution targets -- is crystallizing in opposition to a plan that would uproot 700- year-old villages and dig two pits the size of Manhattan.
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