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CountryMark Refining And Logistics, LLC To Install $18M In Pollution Controls To Resolve Clean Air Act Violations At Indiana Refinery
2013-03-01 03:23:50| oilandgasonline News Articles
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Countrymark Refining and Logistics, LLC has agreed to pay a $167,000 civil penalty, perform environmental projects totaling more than $180,000, and spend $18M on new pollution controls to resolve Clean Air Act (CAA) violations at its refinery, located in Mount Vernon, Ind.
Houston loses air pollution permit lawsuit
2013-02-22 13:06:22| Waste Management - Topix.net
The justices agreed with Southern Crushed Concrete that Houston's 2007 law restricting the location of concrete-crushing facilities violates state statute by nullifying a permit issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
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Chinese Air Pollution Triggers Steep Rise in Nitrogen Deposition
2013-02-21 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A spike in Chinese air pollution over the last three decades has caused a 60 percent increase in the levels of nitrogen pollutants that ultimately end up back on the nations land and in its water, a new study has found. In an analysis of 270 monitoring sites across the country, researchers found that the annual deposition of nitrogen, as measured in precipitation, had increased from 13.2 kilograms per hectare in 1980 to about 21.1 kilograms per hectare in 2010. Scientists say so-called nitrogen...
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Study finds oil and gas drilling caused air pollution in West
2013-02-20 07:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: A comprehensive analysis of emissions and ozone pollution in the Uintah Basin in eastern Utah concluded that the primary source is oil and gas operations. The oil-field operations created about 99 percent of the volatile organic chemical emissions and about 70 percent of the nitrogen oxides emitted in the basin. "It isn't surprising, this is a rural area," said Brock LeBaron, who managed the study for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality. Across the West -- from Colorado's Front...
Briefing explores associations between air pollution and health outcomes
2013-02-17 20:55:34| Biotech - Topix.net
Lance Waller, PhD, chair of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, will present preliminary work that explores relationships between high-levels of air pollution exposure and health effects at a press briefing hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science on February 17, at 2 p.m. EST, in ... (more)
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