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Arctic finance initiative to invest in projects that cut pollution and waste
2014-03-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A new financial initiative that will fund operations working to prevent and mitigate pollution of the Arctic has been launched this week. The Arctic Council Project Support Instrument (PSI), a funding mechanism managed by the Nordic Environmental Finance Corporation (NEFCO), became operational on Wednesday. It will provide loans and grants to support initiatives that will help eliminate pollutants such as black carbon and POPs and efforts to manage waste and mitigate climate change. The...
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Pollution Update 3-13-14
2014-03-13 10:20:46| Waste Management - Topix.net
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality recently sent PeaceHealth a warning letter for hazardous waste law violations discovered by DEQ during an unannounced inspection last month at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield.
Panasonic offers China pollution pay
2014-03-13 03:02:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Japanese electronics firm Panasonic announces it will pay its staff working in China a premium to compensate them for high levels of pollution.
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Nine Chinese Cities Outpaced Beijing in Air Pollution in 2013, Report Finds
2014-03-12 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: China's air pollution problems are more severe and widespread than previously thought, with nine cities experiencing more days of extreme air pollution than Beijing in 2013, according to a new analysis by Greenpeace's Energy Desk. Fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution plagued dozens of cities and millions of people in China most of them outside of Beijing, although the Chinese capital captured the most air pollution headlines last year. The city of Xingtai, southwest of the capital, fared worst, with...
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Traffic-related air pollution associated with changes in right ventricular structure and function
2014-03-10 13:30:33| Green Car Congress
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