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Shell Oil to Spend over $115 Million to Reduce Harmful Air Pollution at Houston Area Refinery ...
2013-07-10 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Shell Oil and affiliated partnerships have agreed to resolve alleged violation of the Clean Air Act at a large refinery and chemical plant in Deer Park, TX by spending at least $115 million to control harmful air pollution from industrial flares and other processes, and by paying $2.6 million civil penalty. Shell has also agreed to spend $1 million on a state-of-the-art system to monitor benzene levels at fence line of refinery and chemical plant, making data available to public through ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
China's Air Pollution Significantly Shortening Lives of Those Exposed
2013-07-09 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: China's high level of air pollution consisting of particulates produced by burning coal significantly shortens the lives of people exposed to it, according to a new study. The research is based on long-term data compiled for the first time and projects that the 500 million Chinese who live north of the Huai River are set to lose 2.5 billion years of life expectancy combined due to the extensive use of coal-to-power boilers for heating throughout the region. Meanwhile, using a quasi-experimental...
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Northern China's air pollution reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years
2013-07-08 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life expectancy. High levels of air pollution in northern China much of it caused by an over-reliance on burning coal for heat will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives, the authors predict in the study, published...
Europe must tackle air pollution, warn UN scientists
2013-07-04 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The health effects of air pollution have been underestimated and Europe should review its laws to tackle the problem, UN scientists have concluded after a major review of new evidence. Sixty international scientists, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, analysed eight years of studies to see how minute specks of soot, gases such as ozone and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and other pollutants from road and rail traffic, industry and indoor fires harm human health. In addition to premature...
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Air Pollution May Have Suppressed Storms, Research Suggests
2013-06-25 06:37:10| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: To the ever-growing list of ways humanity seems to have altered the earth, add another candidate: Air pollution may have had a major soothing influence on storm cycles in the North Atlantic. That is the finding of a paper published this week, suggesting that industrial pollution from North America and Europe through much of the 20th century may have altered clouds in ways that cooled the ocean surface. That, in turn, may have suppressed storms, and particularly major hurricanes, below the level...
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