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Great Lakes Pollution No Longer Driven By Airborne Sources; Land, Rivers Now Bigger Factors
2015-01-13 15:54:40| pollutiononline Home Page
A chemical oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island who measured organic pollutants in the air and water around Lake Erie and Lake Ontario has found that airborne emissions are no longer the primary cause of the lakes’ contamination. Instead, most of the lakes’ chemical pollutants come from sources on land or in rivers.
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PA Environmental Groups: Time Is Ripe For Action On Methane Pollution
2015-01-12 01:32:50| pollutiononline News Articles
LeadingPennsylvaniaand national environmental organizations today encouraged Governor-electTom Wolfto improve the protection of environmental and public health by tackling methane pollution early in his tenure as governor
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Air pollution most deadly environmental challenge, says former deputy mayor of London
2015-01-09 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Former deputy mayor of London Nicky Gavron has described air pollution in the capital as the most deadly environmental challenge and heavily criticised the current leadership for failing to take strong action. Gavron, who was deputy under Ken Livingstone, wrote in the Guardian, Of all the environmental challenge the capital currently faces, air pollution is by far the most deadly. The remarks are made after campaigners claimed that Londons Oxford Street had breached its nitrogen dioxide...
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Groups Demand EPA Regulate Toxic Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
2015-01-08 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As my colleague Mary Anne Hitt noted in her highlights of 2014 column weve had some significant victories in the fight against the destruction of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia over the past year. But there is still so much to be done to stop this horrible practice from devastating our communities, our health and our wild Appalachian places. Thats why the Sierra Club joined a coalition of groups taking legal action this week to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Mayor failure clean up London air pollution 'risks children's health'
2015-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: London mayor Boris Johnson is risking childrens health by blocking action to clean up Londons poor air quality, the citys former deputy mayor has claimed. Nicky Gavron said the mayor had failed to deliver on his promise of an electric car revolution and is not cleaning up buses quickly enough. London has been in breach of EU pollution limits since 2010, and is not expected to reach safe levels for another 15 years, despite the threat of fines from the EU. Until we have political leadership...
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