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Court strikes down Bush administration pollution monitoring loophole
A federal appeals court has struck down an Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempted major industrial polluters from accurately measuring dangerous emissions. The court held that EPA violated the Clean Air Act in allowing the largest air pollution sources to avoid monitoring, recording and recordkeeping of air pollution emissions needed to assure compliance with clean air laws. The EPA rule actually barred permitting agencies from requiring any of these activities in clean air permits. Earthjustice challenged the 2006 EPA rule on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Project, ... |
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Water and climate change
Water and climate change is one of the standing issues being discussed at this year’s World Water Week, whose focus is on sanitation in response to the UN International Year of Sanitation. Vahid Alavian, World Bank water adviser, is attending the conference and will report on progress and preliminary findings of a two-year Bank study on water and climate change.
Worldbank.org talked with Alavian about his findings to date.
What’s the objective of the study?
In the water sector, water managers inherently have to deal with variability and uncertainty, but what’s new is the increased ... |
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