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'Threat map' aims to highlight worst of oil and gas air pollution

2016-06-17 14:05:35| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: Environmentalists have launched a new mapping tool that allows people in the U.S. to see whether they live and work in areas at risk of harmful air pollution from nearby oil and gas activities. According to the map, which was published online Wednesday by the advocacy groups Earthworks and the Clean Air Task Force, a lot of people do: about 12.4 million people live within a half-mile of active oil and gas wells and related facilities that could release harmful pollutants such as benzene and formaldehyde...

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Supreme Court rejects case challenging key White House air pollution regulation

2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a key Obama administration environmental regulation, refusing to take up an appeal from 20 states to block rules that limit the emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants that are byproducts of burning coal. The high courts decision leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that the regulations, put in place several years ago by the Environmental Protection Agency, could remain in effect while the agency revised the way it had calculated the...

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obama mercury air pollution rule

2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside the latest effort by a group of states led by Michigan to block Obama administration environmental regulations limiting power plant emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants. The justices opted not to hear the states' appeal of a December U.S. appeals court decision allowing the mercury rules to remain intact while the administration responded to last year's Supreme Court ruling that the government should have considered the compliance costs...

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Air Pollution Could Be Hurting Your Childs Mental Health

2016-06-14 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: A new study suggests that exposure to air pollution may be linked to increased mental illnesses among children. The research, which was published in the journal BMJ Open, found that even small increases in air pollution exposure were associated with an increase in psychiatric problems. In the study, researchers from Ume University in Sweden examined the pollution exposure of more than 500,000 young people in Sweden aged below 18 and made a comparison against records of medicines prescribed...

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