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Study warns on possible air pollution link to neuroinflammatory, Alzheimer and Parkinsons pathologies in megacity children
2014-09-12 14:30:43| Green Car Congress
Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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AOA report reveals UK airports are reducing noise pollution and carbon emission despite growth
2014-09-10 01:00:00| Airport Technology
A report released by the Airport Operators Association (AOA) has revealed that UK airports are reducing carbon emissions and managing noise while maintaining growth momentum.
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Suffolk cutbacks reduce water testing, pollution inspections
2014-09-09 12:06:30| Waste Management - Topix.net
David Mullen, a public health sanitarian with the Suffolk County Dept of Health Services, Division of Environmental Quality, tests water at a pumping station in Greenlawn on July 1, 2014. David Mullen, a public health sanitarian with the Suffolk County Dept of Health Services, Division of Environmental Quality, tests water at a pumping station in Greenlawn on July 1, 2014.
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Whirlpool submits - Final Remedy Work Plan' for TCE pollution cleanup
2014-09-09 03:35:10| Waste Management - Topix.net
Whirlpool submitted a proposed supplement to its Final Remedy Work Plan on Monday to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality that would add additional injections of chemical oxidant combined with soil removal to remedy an area near the northwest corner of the Whirlpool site where additional trichloroethylene has been found. The potentially cancer-causing TCE was used as part of a degreasing agent by Whirlpool until the 1980s at its now-closed Fort Smith plant.
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