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Trash Burning Worsens Air Pollution
2014-08-27 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Trash burning around the globe is worsening air pollution, pumping more emissions into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study. More than 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in such fires, emitting gases and particles that can substantially affect human health and climate change, estimates the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which led the study. The study looks at pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxide, and mercury that are emitted...
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Trash burning worldwide significantly worsens air pollution
2014-08-26 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Open burning of trash, as seen here in General Santos, Philippines, is a global phenomenon that has significant effects on air quality. Credit: Photo courtesy Global Environment Facility [Click to enlarge image] Unregulated trash burning around the globe is pumping far more pollution into the atmosphere than shown by official records. A new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates that more than 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in such fires, emitting gases...
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Scrap tires add to West Nile threat, air pollution
2014-08-26 06:40:48| Waste Management - Topix.net
More than 300,000 scrap tires are piled a few feet from the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville.
UK air pollution fuels official concern
2014-08-26 03:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A small group of politicians could be spotted in Parliament Square last month struggling to squeeze wires and tubes into jacket pockets and handbags. As traffic thundered around them, members of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) were being fitted with air pollution monitors. At the flick of a switch, tubes attached to collars and lapels began to suck in the same air as the MPs, in tests that recorded their exposure to air pollution in Westminster and their constituencies. Matthew Offord,...
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EPA to Congress: Toxic Air Pollution Has Dropped Dramatically
2014-08-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency has made substantial progress in reducing toxic air pollution since 1990, reducing many pollutants by more than half, regulators told Congress Thursday. On a national basis, reductions include a 66 percent drop in benzene, a nearly 60 percent reduction in mercury from man-made sources and an 84 percent drop in lead. The Thursday report is the second and final update required under the 1990 updates to the Clean Air Act, which mandated that the EPA work to...
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