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Whirlpool may add additional pollution monitors near Fort Smith TCE area
2014-08-06 01:58:33| Waste Management - Topix.net
Whirlpool has proposed additionally monitoring and testing of water and soil samples at sites near its now-shuttered manufacturing facility in south Fort Smith following detection of trichloroethylene in the area.
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Farming practices & climate change root Toledo water pollution
2014-08-03 20:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The toxins that contaminated the water supply of the city of Toledo leaving 400,000 people without access to safe drinking water for two days were produced by a massive algae boom. But this is not a natural disaster. Water problems in the Great Lakes the worlds largest freshwater system have spiked in the last three years, largely because of agricultural pollution. Toledo draws its drinking water from Lake Erie. Residents were warned not to drink the water on Saturday, after inspectors...
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Worlds Largest Plastic Bottle Structure Draws Attention to Global Plastic Pollution Crisis
2014-08-02 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The message of cu.podu is simple: Plastic bottles should not end up in the water. After a flood created a dam where one could cross the Nera River by stepping on plastic bottles at the point of Danube where it enters Romania, the cu.podu project was born, explained Radu Rusu of EcoStuff. The goal of the project is to do something big enough to draw attention to the enormous quantities of litter dumped every day in the rivers and oceans around the world, like other organizations are doing including...
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Miners testify pollution controls could push coal jobs overseas
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times: Coal miners clad in United Mine Workers of America camouflage T-shirts passionately described Friday how the Environmental Protection Agencys proposed Clean Power Plan will devastate the U.S. coal industry. If I lose my job, I wont have the money to make purchases, said Mike Payton, a Marion County, W.Va., coal miner testified during the last day of EPA hearings about its proposal, part of President Obamas Climate Action Plan, which would cut hundreds of millions of tons of carbon pollution...
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MIT study links climate change, air pollution and decreasing food supplies
2014-08-02 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: MIT research published in the journal Nature Climate Change warns that rising temperatures and air pollution will combine to have negative effect on crop yield, placing pressure on the food system. Several separate pieces of research of linked falling crop yields with climate change. Research from Stanford University suggests that climate change makes it 20 times more likely for corn and wheat crop production to decrease, whilst a study from the University of Leeds found climate change could have...
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