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Colorado Governor Hickenlooper Touts New Air Pollution Rules For Oil And Gas Industry
2014-02-26 19:22:07| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is touting the state's new air pollution curbs on the oil and gas industry - but he insists that local efforts to curb drilling run afoul of constitutional property rights.
Tar Sands Air Pollution May Be 2-3 Times Higher Than Industry Reported
2014-02-04 07:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: A new study suggests the environmental health risks of oilsands operations in Alberta's Athabasca region have probably been underestimated. Researchers say emissions of potentially hazardous air pollution that were used in environmental reviews done before approving some projects did not include evaporation from tailings ponds or other sources, such as dust from mining sites. The study, by the University of Toronto's environmental chemistry research group, looked at reported levels of polycyclic...
Idling cars can turn schools into air pollution hot spots
2014-01-30 23:31:05| Waste Management - Topix.net
Research shows idling can turn schools into air pollution hot spots, as parents gather in large numbers outside with engines running.
Huntsman, Veolia fined for air pollution violations
2014-01-30 22:26:12| Waste Management - Topix.net
Texas environmental regulators fined two Southeast Texas industrial sites for air pollution violations at its regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday in Austin.
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Asia's Pollution Affecting Global Air Circulation
2014-01-22 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Asia's air pollution has become so bad researchers warn that it is affecting global air circulation in such a way that it could be intensifying storms - including those far beyond the continent itself. "Huge amounts of aerosols from Asia go as high as six miles up in the atmosphere and these have an unmistakable impact on cloud formations and weather," said Renyi Zhang, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, uses both climate...
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