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Pollution advisory, burn ban issued for Phoenix
2013-11-15 15:14:31| Waste Management - Topix.net
State environment regulators have issued a high pollution advisory and ban on wood-burning fires for Friday in metropolitan Phoenix.
Cleaning Up: China Reform Plan Tackles Pollution
2013-11-15 08:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: A number of episodes in recent months have added to growing public concern over the environment in China, including severe air pollution in January in Beijing and several other places, as well as the discovery of cadmium-tainted rice in supplies in the southern province of Guangdong. Environmental degradation is now seen as a threat to China's social instability and a key component in economic reform. In the economic and political roadmap released Friday, China said it wants to introduce a system...
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Green Powered Morse Drum Handlers Minimize Pollution and Long Term Costs
2013-11-14 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Environmentally friendly Morse drum handlers offer optional batteries that contain no lead, no acid, create no gasses during charge, and are lighter than lead-acid batteries. Plus, much longer life means fewer replacements, less maintenance labor and downtime, often reducing total costs. The batteries put out up to 2000 cycles, and achieve up to 8 times longer cycle life than lead-acid batteries with no maintenance. Store them for up to one year without recharging and typical design life of 5 ...This story is related to the following:Drum Handlers |
Anti-carbon pollution rally
2013-11-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: The EPA plans to roll out revised power plant emissions standards before President Obama leaves office, so is holding public hearings in cities around the country. Living on Earth's Emmett FitzGerald reports from a citizen's rally outside the EPA office in downtown Boston. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. Existing power plants are the biggest source of carbon pollution in the US, and new EPA rules to limit their emissions have been mired in controversy for years....
A Chinese Childs Lung Cancer Is Linked to Pollution
2013-11-08 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: An eight-year-old girl, living near a major road in the Jiangsu Province of Eastern China, has become the youngest person in China, and possibly in the world, to be diagnosed with lung cancer caused by pollution-the cause of her disease according to Chinese officials. And last month, the World Health Organization classified air pollution as a major human carcinogen. We talked with C. Arden Pope, economics professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research into the effects of air...
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