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EPA Releases Top 25 List Of Cities With Most Energy Star Buildings / Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New York, San Francisco Make Top five, Cutting Energy Costs While Increasing Efficiency, Protecting Health, Reducing Pollution
2014-04-14 03:36:33| pollutiononline News Articles
Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the sixth annual list of thetop 25 U.S. metropolitan areaswith the mostEnergy Starcertified buildings
Pollution Fears Crush Home Prices Near Fracking Wells
2014-04-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Whether or not fracking causes groundwater pollution, people fear the risk enough that property values have dropped for homes with drinking-water wells near shale-gas pads, according to new research. Researchers from the Unviersity of Calgary and Duke University studied property sales from 1994 to 2012 in 36 Pennsylvania counties and seven counties in New York. They mapped sales against the locations of shale-gas wells, and they compared homes connected to public drinking-water systems to homes...
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Reducing car pollution easier than UN experts thought
2014-04-09 17:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Reducing pollution from cars has been cheaper and easier than UN experts thought, a draft report says. The UN's climate panel has admitted it underestimated the huge gains in weight and fuel efficiency achieved by car manufacturers. But the panel says all the improvements will be swamped by the future growth in global traffic. That is unless governments improve public transport, tax motorists and plan cities for walking and cycling. The report, seen by BBC News, warns that transport will...
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EPA Called To Investigate Link Between Fracking And Pollution
2014-04-08 12:00:49| oilandgasonline News Articles
The EPA is studying how fracking may harm drinking water, but House Democrats are calling on the agency to take stronger steps to crack down on this industry.
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UK air pollution 'major threat to biodiversity
2014-04-07 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Nitrogen pollution, which played a major role in the UKs recent air quality crisis, represents a potentially deadly threat to many animal and plant species, according to a government adviser. Nitrogen oxide (NO2), which is mostly emitted by traffic vehicles and industry, is one the main causes of the air pollution that engulfed parts of Britain last week, affecting many peoples health. However, experts have said that pollution does not only affect humans, but is threatening wildlife as well....
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