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Coal Boomtowns Fade as China Declares War on Pollution
2015-03-18 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The streets of this northwestern Chinese city were once packed with Ferraris, BMWs and other luxury cars. Now, they are all gone. Average housing prices here have dropped by a quarter in two years. Driving across the city's downtown, you see vacant buildings and empty restaurants. "The business of coal companies here turned south since late 2012," Yang Cheng, a local driver, explained while passing by a closed hotel. "Yulin is a coal boomtown," Yang went on. "Once coal businesses are not...
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Eiffel tower shrouded in smog as Paris pollution spikes
2015-03-18 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Eiffel tower disappeared behind a brown smog on Wednesday as Paris and much of northern France suffered a spike in pollution. The pollution levels are consistent. If we dont go over the alert level, we wont be far away, said Airparif, the body responsible for monitoring air quality in the greater Paris region. In Paris, authorities measure the concentration of particulates with a diameter of less than 10 microns so-called PM10 in the air to determine pollution levels. These particulates...
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Ten companies directly responsible for third Australia's greenhouse gas pollution
2015-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has taken aim at the coal-fired power industry and the mining sector in a report naming and shaming Australia's top 10 worst polluters. Australia's worst polluters 1. Energy Australia Emissions: Yallourn power station, Victoria; Mt Piper power station, New South Wales. 2. Macquarie Generation Bayswater and Liddell power stations, New South Wales. 3. AGL Energy Loy Yang A power station, Victoria; Bayswater and Liddell power stations,...
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Jorin and Perle Join Forces to Reduce Oil Pollution in the Water Supply
2015-03-18 11:31:13| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NASHVILLE, TN Perle Systems, a manufacturer of advanced Ethernet over Fiber and secure device networking solutions, reveals that Perle Media Converters have been integrated into Jorin's Visual Process Analyzer (ViPA). ViPA instruments provide real-time analysis of particles, droplets and bubbles in water produced...
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San Diego sues Monsanto over PCB pollution
2015-03-17 22:20:00| Chemicals - Topix.net
The City of San Diego has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company and two related companies over long-standing chemical pollution in San Diego Bay.
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