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Livestock Production Pollution Underestimated
2013-01-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - Latest figures reveal that the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia emissions of China's livestock and poultry breeding in 2010 accounts for 45 per cent and 25 per cent of national total emissions respectively.
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Biofuel boom could lead to life-threatening ozone pollution
2013-01-09 23:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Not long ago biofuels were seen as one of the major tools to combat climate change, but a large number of studies in recent years have shown that many first generation biofuels may have little climate benefitand some are actually harmfuland are also linked to rising food prices. Now, a new study in Nature Climate Change warns that biofuels using fast-growing trees (polar, willow, and eucalytpus) could also exacerbate ground-level ozone pollution. "Concerns about climate change and energy security...
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Perdue Seeks Up To $2.5M In Poultry Pollution Case
2013-01-09 20:58:17| Food - Topix.net
Perdue Farms is seeking up to $2.5 million in attorney fees following its victory in a poultry pollution case that had been closely watched by environmentalist and agriculture interests for its potential impact on the industry, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Pollution fears rise as economising Greeks burn wood for fuel
2013-01-09 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Facing economic hardship, Greeks are burning wood for fuel potentially endangering the environment and their health. Simon Hanna reports.
Deep In Canadian Lakes, Signs Of Tar Sands Pollution
2013-01-09 00:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Canadian researchers have used the mud at the bottom of lakes like a time machine to show that tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada, is polluting remote regional lakes as far as 50 miles from the operations. An increasingly large share of U.S. oil comes from Canada's tar sands. There are environmental consequences of this development, but until recently, Canadian regional and federal governments left it to the industry to monitor these effects. A new study follows other recent rigorous...
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