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Air Pollution May Have Suppressed Storms, Research Suggests
2013-06-25 06:37:10| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: To the ever-growing list of ways humanity seems to have altered the earth, add another candidate: Air pollution may have had a major soothing influence on storm cycles in the North Atlantic. That is the finding of a paper published this week, suggesting that industrial pollution from North America and Europe through much of the 20th century may have altered clouds in ways that cooled the ocean surface. That, in turn, may have suppressed storms, and particularly major hurricanes, below the level...
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U.S. Supreme Court to Review Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
2013-06-24 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The U.S. Supreme Court today indicated it will review an appeals court rejection of the U.S. EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which sets limits for emissions from coal-fired power plants that move across state lines, polluting the air of downwind states. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' overturned the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule last August in the case of EME Homer City Generation v. EPA. That case concerned emissions from the coal-fired Homer City Generating Station in southwestern...
Supremem Court Justices to hear EPA appeal over air pollution rule
2013-06-24 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the lawfulness of an Obama administration effort to regulate air pollution that crosses state lines. At the request of the administration, the American Lung Association and environmental groups, the justices will review an appeals court ruling that invalidated the Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency implemented to enforce a provision of the Clean Air Act. The rule sets limits on nitrogen oxides and...
Malaysia declares emergency as Indonesia smoke pollution thickens
2013-06-24 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indonesian police on Monday arrested two farmers for illegally starting fires to clear land in Sumatra, the first detentions linked to blazes that have blanketed neighboring Singapore and Malaysia with thick smog for days. Police said the two farmers were not linked to any of the eight companies the government suspects are responsible for Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis in years. The parent companies of those firms included Malaysia-listed Sime Darby, which has denied wrongdoing....
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Mich. beachgoers lost 755 days to pollution in '12
2013-06-24 07:51:51| Waste Management - Topix.net
Michigan beachgoers lost 755 days of water access in 2012 because of pollution, down 17 percent from 2011 and about half the number from five years earlier, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality said in a report released Monday.
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