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EPA Proposes New Commonsense Measures To Cut Methane Emissions From The Oil And Gas Sector/Proposal Cuts GHG Emissions, Reduces Smog-Forming Air Pollution And Provides Certainty For Industry
2015-08-19 07:16:55| oilandgasonline News Articles
Continuing the Obama Administration’s commitment to take action on climate change and protect public health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing commonsense proposed standards recently that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) from the oil and natural gas industry.
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Berkeley Earth study calculates that air pollution contributes to 1.6M deaths per year in China
2015-08-14 12:55:33| Green Car Congress
Supreme Court of Canada will not hear CN's appeal over coal tar pollution lawsuit
2015-08-12 18:14:00| Railroads - Topix.net
OTTAWA - Canada's highest court recently announced it will not hear an appeal from Canadian National Railway Company, which in 2014 had a 25-year-old lawsuit - arising from a requirement to clean up land polluted more than 55 years ago by coal tar - dismissed due to delay.
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Ohio Land Owners Settle Whirlpool Pollution Lawsuit
2015-08-11 09:39:48| Appliances - Topix.net
A lawsuit against Whirlpool Corp. has been settled over contaminated land in northern Ohio near where dozens of children were sickened with cancer. The land owners settled their suit earlier this summer - months after the children's families dropped their lawsuit against Whirlpool linking the company's washing machine plant with the cancer cluster.
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Heathrow to trial steeper approach to reduce noise pollution
2015-08-11 01:00:00| Airport Technology
UKs Heathrow Airport plans to trial steeper angles of approach to runways for landing aircrafts in an effort to reduce noise pollution.
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