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Tar-sands mining in Canada is unleashing mercury pollution
2014-01-03 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Drilling for tar-sands oil in Alberta has long been recognized as a driver of climate change, helping to nudge the mercury up in thermometers around the world. Now, it appears that it`s also dousing the Canadian province with straight-up mercury pollution. Canadian government researchers have discovered that oil-sands operations have puffed out mercury over 4.7 million acres of northeast Alberta, boosting levels to as much as 16 times higher than background levels. Mercury is a potent poison that`s...
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Sierra Club seeks review of pollution waiver
2014-01-03 03:33:44| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
An environmental group filed an appeal Thursday of an Illinois board's decision granting Dynegy Inc. more time to install pollution controls at five coal-fired power plants, calling it a "dangerous precedent."
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Stagnant air brings pollution alert for Tuesday
2013-12-30 23:06:23| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in Phoenix has issued a fine particle high pollution advisory for the greater Phoenix area for Tuesday.
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Power plants, refineries top Washington state carbon pollution
2013-12-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Power plants and refineries continue to rank among the biggest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington in 2012, according to the latest data reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2012, 90 large sources in the state reported releasing a total of 19.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases, about an 8 percent drop from the year before, the data shows. The TransAlta coal-fired power plant in Centralia continued to be the single largest...
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ADEQ issues final Whirlpool pollution mitigation plan
2013-12-28 06:27:52| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality released its final Remedial Action Decision Document for Corrective Action on Friday that requires Whirlpool to spend at least $6 million to clean up pollution at its shuttered Fort Smith plant.
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