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Pollution Update 12-18-14
2014-12-18 15:59:28| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has once again found Pacific Recycling to be in violation of the Clean Water Act at its facility on Cross Street in Eugene .
China's largest coal power plant violating air pollution levels every week
2014-12-18 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Chinas largest coal-fired power plant has been violating national emission standards for chemicals that cause dangerous fine particulate matter pollution, official figures show. The Waigaoqiao coal-fired power plant located in Shanghai has been violating Chinas national standards for nitrogen oxides every week since new standards came into force in July, according to analysis of publicly available government data by researchers at Greenpeace East Asia. The data shows that phase two of the...
Judge clears Exxon in Baytown pollution suit
2014-12-18 02:10:22| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil was cleared of paying any additional penalty for air pollution from a refinery complex outside Houston by a federal judge Wednesday. Environment Texas and the Sierra Club sued the Irving-based company in 2010 .
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Great Lakes pollution no longer driven airborne sources; land, rivers now bigger factors
2014-12-17 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: 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. According to Rainer Lohmann, professor of chemical oceanography at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, water quality in the Great Lakes has been slowly improving for...
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Washington governor proposes cap on carbon pollution
2014-12-17 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday proposed an ambitious cap-and-trade program to require the state's largest industrial polluters to pay for every ton of carbon they release. The proposal was part of a broader package that the Democrat said would help the state meet a 2008 mandate to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. It sets an overall limit on heat-trapping gases similar to a program that California launched nearly three years ago. "It is primarily...
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