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India court slams Delhi's worsening air pollution
2014-11-27 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indias environment court has slammed the government over the capitals horrendous air pollution, which it said was getting worse every day, and ordered a string of measures to bring it down. The National Green Tribunal directed all vehicles older than 15 years be taken off New Delhi roads, pollution checks undertaken for all state-run buses and air purifiers installed at the citys busy markets. Environmentalists welcomed the decision, saying policymakers were failing to heed the emergency...
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Obama to unveil new limits on ozone pollution in victory for health groups
2014-11-26 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Obama administration will unveil new limits on smog pollution bringing the US up to par with public health standards in other industrialised countries. The Environmental Protection Agency is under a court-ordered deadline to propose new rules for ground-level ozone by 1 December. The New York Times reported that the announcement would come on Wednesday. The new standards represent a victory for public health and environment groups which had sued the Obama administration for rejecting stricter...
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Air pollution costs EU up to $235 billion: EU agency
2014-11-25 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution, chiefly from coal-fired power plants, cost society up to 189 billion euros ($235 billion) in 2012 - equal to the gross domestic product of Finland, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in a report published on Tuesday. The agency provides research to guide EU policymakers, who are reconsidering proposals put forward last year by the European Commission, the EU executive, to tighten laws on air quality. It analyzed the impact of air pollution from industry on health costs,...
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EPA Rejects a Texas Clean-Air Plan, Orders Pollution Upgrades Some Big Coal Plants
2014-11-25 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: The partial rejection of Texas regional haze plan, a federally required strategy for reducing pollution that causes hazy skies, would require 15 coal-burning generating units at eight Texas power plants to install or improve controls that limit emissions of sulfur dioxide. The plants are mostly upwind of urban North Texas, meaning their emissions often drift to the metropolitan area and further north to Oklahoma. They include Luminants Big Brown, Monticello and Martin Lake plants. Luminant...
EPA's Clean Power Plan Calls For Reduction In Carbon Pollution Open For Comments From Now Until December 1st
2014-11-24 02:42:28| pollutiononline Home Page
With more and more people becoming aware of the growing threat of carbon pollution to the health of Americans, many are looking for ways to help slow down and even reverse the effects of this pollution
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