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Michigan utilities work to comply with air pollution rule
2015-06-28 13:18:24| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to release a decision this week about new mercury and toxic air emissions standards for power plants, but Michigan's utility companies have already been working toward compliance. The case against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is led by Michigan, which was joined by 20 other states.
Power utilities reach $160m settlement with US EPA to reduce pollution from Four Corners Power Plant
2015-06-26 01:00:00| Power Technology
Utility firms in Arizona and New Mexico agree to a $160m settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice to reduce harmful carbon emissions from the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant.
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Successful Airborne Pollution Compliance Monitoring of Ships at Sea
2015-06-25 12:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Andor Newton cameras and Shamrock spectrographs combined in state-of-the-art optical remote sensing and measurement technique to tackle Gross Polluting Ships Belfast, UK Despite new legislation that requires ships to burn low sulphur marine oil in EU and US coastal waters, the economic benefits of continuing to...
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Global Fine Particulate Air Pollution on the Rise Despite Regional Improvements
2015-06-24 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Air pollution from fine particulate matter has decreased significantly in North America and western Europe over the past two decades, but increases in East and South Asia have more than made up for those improvements, as these maps based on NASA satellite data show. Fine particulate pollution (PM 2.5) is released into the atmosphere through fossil fuel combustion and the burning of forests and agricultural land, and it can easily infiltrate human respiratory and circulatory systems, contributing...
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In Santiago, Climate Change Fuels Choking Air Pollution
2015-06-23 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Thick clouds of heavy smog hung low in Santiago on Monday, a day of exceptional filth in Chiles pollution-stricken capital city. The haze forced more than 1,300 businesses to close after authorities declared an environmental emergency, the first of its kind since 1999. Approximately 80 percent of the citys 1.7 million cars were forced to park, and 100 percent of the citys 7 million people were warned to avoid outdoor activity. The warning was prudent one of the last times this happened, an...
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