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China pledges pollution cut
2013-06-27 14:35:15| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asia Times: China has promised major steps to improve air quality as smog and greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow. On June 14, the State Council released a package of 10 anti-pollution measures to ease the emissions crisis, state media said. Topping the list is a pledge to cut pollution from six smog-producing industries by at least 30% per unit of output by 2017, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The government has already targeted producers of thermal power, iron and steel, petrochemicals,...
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Whirlpool groups says pollution plume stable
2013-06-27 01:35:32| Waste Management - Topix.net
According to a report submitted Monday to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, environmental consultants for Whirlpool claim that a plume of potentially cancer causing trichloroethylene on and around its former Fort Smith manufacturing facility has stabilized and may actually be shrinking.
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Underground pollution not spreading at Whirlpool
2013-06-26 22:03:32| Appliances - Topix.net
A consultant's report says a plume of underground pollution at the former Whirlpool Corp. factory in Fort Smith isn't spreading.
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Study links fracking to drinking water pollution
2013-06-25 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: While the EPA has been dumping and delaying studies of frackings effects on drinking water, new academic research reveals that people who live near natural gas wells in Pennsylvania are drinking the same gases that the frackers are pumping out from the shale beneath their feet. Researchers from Duke University, the University of Rochester, and California State Polytechnic University found dissolved methane, which is the main ingredient in natural gas, in water pumped from 82 percent of drinking...
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Obama aims to tackle pollution, climate change
2013-06-25 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming. In a major speech at Georgetown University, Obama warned Americans of the deep and disastrous effects of climate change, urging them to take action before it's too late. "As a president, as a father and as an American, I'm here to say we need to act," Obama said. Obama announced he was directing his administration...
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