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EPA Awards $400,000 to Communities to Reduce Water Pollution, Build Resilience to Climate Change
2013-10-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA announced $400,000 will go to help 6 communities expand their use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution as well as boost resilience to impacts of climate change. Specific communities that will be receiving assistance include Providence, RI ($75,000); Detroit, MI ($65,000); Lincoln, NE ($65,000); Gary, IN ($65,000); Pima County, AZ ($65,000); and Spartanburg, SC ($65,000). Also, EPA released report analyzing economic benefits of green infrastructure in 13 locations. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Canada: Air Pollution and Cancer Spikes linked in Alberta
2013-10-24 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Alberta is Canada's industry epicenter and home to more than 40 companies that produce industrial emissions. Recent studies conducted by the University of California and the University of Michigan have indicated higher levels of contaminants which can potentially be linked to spikes in the incidences of cancer in the region. The findings by UC Irvine and University of Michigan scientists, published online this week, reveal high levels of the carcinogens 1,3-butadiene and benzene and other airborne...
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China: Air pollution can wreck your mental health too
2013-10-24 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When planning a recent trip to Beijing, I was delighted to see that the forecast predicted perfect weather: sunny, clear, highs in the 70s with no chance of rain. So imagine my surprise when on my first morning in the city I looked out the window and saw a dense, immobile ceiling of dark gray clouds. It wasnt that Weather.com got it wrong. It was that pollution was unusually high that day - the U.S. Embassy Air Quality Index (AQI) readings were over 400 parts per million of PM2.5, well into the...
China send air pollution inspection teams to provinces
2013-10-24 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China's Environment Ministry said on Thursday it will send inspection teams to provinces and cities most seriously affected by smog to ensure rules on fighting air pollution are being enforced. Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability-obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has poisoned much of the country's air, water and soil. China's smog crisis was thrown back...
Nitrogen pollution from farming lingers for decades
2013-10-23 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When a farmworker sprays fertilizer over a field, there`s a good chance he or she will be outlived by nitrogen pollution from that fertilizer. A 30-year study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that nitrogen could linger in soil for nearly a century after fertilizer is applied. Nitrogen from fertilizer helps crops grow, but it can be poisonous for humans and animals. When nitrates leach from farmed soil into groundwater, they can make it undrinkable....
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