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Florida sugar growers win House vote on Everglades pollution payout
2013-03-08 06:31:14| Sugar Industry News
TALLAHASSEE The sugar industry won a round Thursday in the long fight over Everglades restoration, when a House panel approved extending a tax on growers that environmentalists say will leave South Florida taxpayers paying most of the cleanup cost.
Montana power plant sued over pollution controls
2013-03-07 14:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the owners of Montana's massive Colstrip coal-fired power plant, seeking to force the installation of more pollution controls at the decades-old facility. The Montana Environmental Information Center and Sierra Club also asked the U.S. District Court in Billings to issue penalties for alleged emissions violations. The center's Anne Hedges said the penalties could total many millions of dollars for violations over 20 years. Colstrip...
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Supreme court may force UK to act on air pollution
2013-03-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The supreme court could force the government to take steps to urgently reduce dangerous air pollution in many British cities to meet European limits, following a landmark hearing this week. The case, to be heard by five law lords, coincides with government warnings that toxic air pollution has been at "high" levels across much of England and Wales this week, including London, York, Manchester, Liverpool, Swansea, Bristol and other cities. ClientEarth, a group of campaigning lawyers that has...
Free trade explodes emerging markets' massive pollution
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Street: This week President Obama castigated his own country for not doing enough to control greenhouse gasses while at the same time not saying one word about the real polluters of this world. I am talking about the entire emerging markets world led by China who is exempt from doing anything about carbon emissions or any other kind of pollution. Environmentalists have the same head in the sand attitude and never protest what the emerging market is doing to foul their own air and water and to increase...
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The coal monster: Pollution forces Chinese leaders to act
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: What does growth smell like? What does the biggest economic miracle of all time taste like? In Guiyu, on the South China Sea, the smell of growth is a caustic, slightly nut-like odor emitted when a computer keyboard is placed on a hotplate. Electronic waste is processed in Guiyu, one of the most prosperous cities in Guangdong Province. In Xintang, on the Pearl River Delta, it is the bitterly acidic gases that are released when tons of denim material are bleached, dyed and washed. Xintang is...
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