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Speed up air pollution reduction
2013-07-31 14:37:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Climate change is a global scourge that requires action by everyone. American efforts to protect the planet are particularly vital to prevent the worst impacts. What most people dont realize, however, is that these efforts will be implemented by the states -- and that could be a very good thing. President Obamas plan for addressing climate change calls for reducing carbon pollution 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The cornerstone is his directive to the Environmental Protection Agency to...
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Plastic beads are the latest pollution threat to Great Lakes
2013-07-31 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tiny plastic beads from beauty products are showing up in North America's Great Lakes, and an environmental group is calling upon companies to stop using the plastic particles. Scientists have already been found the particles, known as microplastic, floating in the oceans but recently reported the same contamination in the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. The particles are often less than a millimeter (0.04 inch). A team of researchers with 5 Gyres Institute, a non-profit California-based...
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China to invest $375 billion on energy conservation, pollution: paper
2013-07-31 03:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China plans to invest 2.3 trillion yuan ($375 billion) in energy saving and emission-reduction projects in the five years through 2015 to clean up its environment, the China Daily newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a senior government official. The plan, which has been approved by the State Council, is on top of a 1.85 trillion yuan investment in the renewable energy sector, underscoring the government's concerns about addressing a key source of social discontent. China has set a target of...
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ERG Air Pollution Control Ltd-Industrial Gas Treatment, Flue Gas Cleaning and Industrial Odour Control Systems
2013-07-30 18:11:00| Power Technology
ERG is a leading independent supplier of air pollution control and odour control systems to a broad range of industrial sectors.
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Leaked EPA document raises questions about fracking pollution
2013-07-30 03:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The EPA doesn`t seem very interested in finding out whether fracking pollutes groundwater. The latest indication of this emerged over the weekend in the Los Angeles Times. Residents of the small town of Dimock in northeastern Pennsylvania have long been convinced that Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. was poisoning their drinking water by fracking the land around them. In July of last year, the EPA announced that although water from some local wells contained naturally occurring arsenic, barium, and manganese,...
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