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Most money for air pollution division restored in compromise
2016-04-13 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Durango Herald: State budget writers on Wednesday reached what they framed as a compromise on funding for air quality regulations. The Joint Budget Committee agreed to slash funding to the Air Pollution Control Division by nearly $112,000, though no staff would be cut. The move stems from controversy over implementation of the Clean Power Plan. The Environmental Protection Agency rule requires carbon-dioxide emissions be reduced by 28 percent in Colorado and 32 percent nationally by 2030. The state is charged...
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Environmental groups file lawsuit over pollution from US aircraft
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to press for faster action in setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. aircraft. Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth filed the lawsuit to force the agency to complete its "endangerment finding," a step in the EPA rule-making process that would allow the agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. aircraft. Any "unreasonable delay" in...
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Carbon pollution seen as key driver of sea level rise
2016-04-12 15:11:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As storm surges and floodwaters push further into neighborhoods from Miami to Melbourne, scientists have revealed how greenhouse gas pollution became the main cause of sea level rise during the late 20th century. New computer modeling has shown that human influences were responsible for two-thirds of sea level rise from 1970 to 2005. By contrast, natural forces were responsible for about two-thirds of the rise in sea levels detected from 1900 to 1950. "We're driving sea levels at the moment,'...
Study: even relatively low levels of air pollution appear to affect a childs lungs
2016-04-12 10:56:14| Green Car Congress
DEQ: Bullseye Glass Will Resume Burning Cadmium, After Installing New Pollution Control
2016-04-12 10:09:17| Waste Management - Topix.net
After weeks of voluntarily suspending the metal amid public outcry, Bullseye Glass is burning cadmium again. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality tonight tweeted out a notice it received from the Southeast Portland art glass factory.
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