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United Kingdom: Saharan dust & pollution: confusion over health risk from smog cloud
2014-04-02 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Healthy schoolchildren were being kept indoors on Wednesday as government experts' conflicting messages about the dangers of smog led to widespread confusion. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs warned of "very high' levels of pollution due to a mixture of dust from the Sahara and industrial emissions from Europe arriving on a south-easterly breeze. But its own advisers at Public Health England admitted that the "vast majority of people' would feel no effects and independent...
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England braced for 'very high' levels of air pollution this week
2014-04-02 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: People should be braced for very high levels of air pollution over the next few days, experts have warned. The East of England and Midlands were the worst-affected areas on Tuesday, but large swathes of England and Wales will see high levels of pollution on Wednesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said. The elevated pollution levels have been caused by a combination of light south-easterly winds, the continental air flow and dust which has blown up from the...
Pipeline Backlog Expected to Ease as Texas Backs Off Pollution Fight
2014-03-31 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: For close to 18 months, Mike Heim watched the construction site outside Decatur where his company planned to build a natural gas processing plant sit idle. He was waiting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to OK air pollution permits. You just got in the queue and sat at your desk, said Heim, chief operating officer of the Houston pipeline company Targa Resources. We were able to move some of the gas to other midstream stations that had space in their plants. We were fortunate to...
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Selma company files suit in Mississippi over competitor's air pollution permit
2014-03-30 11:57:14| Waste Management - Topix.net
Selma's Globe Metallurgical is suing Mississippi for what the company contends was improperly granting a competing Mississippi company an air-pollution permit.
Air pollution causes 7 million deaths a year, report finds
2014-03-29 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: What do you think is the worlds largest cause of preventable deaths? Smoking? Poor diet? Blood pressure? It is air pollution, which led to a staggering 7 million deaths in 2012, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Findings revealed it was the cause of one in eight global deaths, more than doubling previous estimates and confirming pollution as the worlds biggest environmental health risk. Exposure to fumes both indoors and outside leads to strokes, heart disease, cancer and...
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