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Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in LA; gasoline engines main source of VOCs
2013-04-19 23:30:16| Green Car Congress
Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in Los Angeles
2013-04-19 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: What is the origin of the volatile hydrocarbons, other than methane, present in city air? Mainly gasoline-powered vehicles[1], according to a study carried out by a French-US team[2] including French researchers from the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA/IPSL[3], CNRS / UPEC / Université Paris Diderot) and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL, CNRS / CEA / Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). The study also shows...
Chevron grills U.S. lawyer in $19 billion Ecuador pollution case
2013-04-16 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chevron Corp on Tuesday sought to persuade a New York federal judge to punish a U.S. lawyer representing Ecuadorean villagers who won a $19 billion environmental damages award, saying the lawyer is withholding documents from the oil company. In an unusual court proceeding, a Chevron lawyer sharply questioned Steven Donziger, who represents residents of the Lago Agrio region who claim the company is responsible for contamination that sickened people in the Ecuadorean Amazon area. At issue is...
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Pollution Control Catalyst targets PTA manufacturing plants.
2013-04-16 18:42:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Base-metal Halocat™ SC29 reduces up to 99% of VOC and toxic organic compounds from PTA (purified terephthalic acid) manufacturing plants. Able to be installed in new plants or replace existing PGM catalysts, this product does not contain platinum group metals (PGM) such as platinum, rhodium, or palladium. Catalyst targets pollutants in PTA plant exhaust streams, including carbon monoxide, methyl bromide, acetic acid, benzene, toluene, alcohols, acetates, formates, and xylenes. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of: Catalysts
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Research Recanted in Oil Pollution Case in Ecuador
2013-04-12 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: An environmental case that has pitted Chevron against Ecuadorean Amazon villagers for two decades has taken another bizarre twist, with an American consulting firm now recanting research favorable to the villagers claims of pollution in remote tracts of jungle. The consulting firm, Stratus Consulting of Boulder, Colo., announced late Thursday that it had originally been misled by Steven R. Donziger, a lead lawyer for the Ecuadorean villagers, and had decided to disavow its contributions to scientific...
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