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WESTON AWARDED U.S. AIR FORCE AETC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CONTRACT
SAN ANTONIO – September 5, 2007 –Weston ) announced today the award of a second consecutiveÒSolutions, Inc. (WESTON Architect-Engineer (A&E) Environmental Services Contract from the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command (AETC) to be administered out of AETC Headquarters at Randolph AFB, Texas. WESTON is one of four companies awarded this indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity ...
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G8 + 5 Environment Ministers Confer on Climate, Biodiversity
POTSDAM, Germany (ENS) - The environment ministers of the eight leading industrialized countries, the G8, have wound up two days of consultation focused on ways to preserve biological diversity and combat climate change. At the invitation of German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who chairs the G8 group this year, the environment ministers of the five major newly industrializing countries ...
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Meet the regulators at air quality & emissions event
The Air Quality and Emissions event AQE 2017 (Telford 24th-25th May) will provide an opportunity to meet the UK’s regulators, with representatives in attendance from the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland. “The Regulators’ Stand will be located in the Exhibition Hall close to ...
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UN Experts Issue Dire Warning about Climate Change
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today issued its latest report with an urgent call to action. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The IPCC is telling us in no uncertain terms that we are running out of time -- but not out of solutions -- if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change. ...
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IPCC Report is Roadmap for Collective Action to Curb Climate Change, NRDC Says
WASHINGTON The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is scheduled on Sunday to release its “synthesis report” documenting the expert consensus on climate change and its growing impacts around the world. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “This report should galvanize the world to take urgent and ...
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Climate Leaders’ Bill Could Complement Ongoing EPA Climate Action
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) introduced legislation today aiming to put Congress on record for taking decisive action against the growing threat climate change poses to our children and future generations. The following is a statement by David Goldston, director of Government Affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “Senators Whitehouse ...
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Court rules in favor of cleaner fuel in California
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of a policy that advances the adoption of cleaner fuels in California’s marketplace. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard will reduce carbon pollution while providing Californians with cleaner alternatives to oil. These pollution reductions contribute to goals outlined in AB32, the nation’s premier climate change law, which aims to ...
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New Law Saddles Kentuckians with Big Electricity Bills; Aims to Block Benefits of Fighting Climate Change
A new Kentucky law approved late yesterday will raise Kentuckians’ electricity bills. This bill mirrors efforts that big polluters and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have unsuccessfully pushed in other states to undermine upcoming federal standards reducing carbon pollution from dirty power plants—the key driver of climate change. David Doniger, director of the ...
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NRDC: Blockbuster Clean Air Cases Can Protect Americans’ Health, Save Tens of Thousands of Lives
Oral arguments will be heard in two crucial cases today when the U.S. Supreme Court considers a federal rule to limit power plant sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that blow across state lines, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court addresses another rule to curb their unhealthy mercury and toxic air pollution. John Walke, Clean Air Director, Natural Resources Defense ...
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Supreme Court Reaffirms EPA Authority to Curb Power Plant Carbon Pollution
Building on two prior decisions affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards like those recently proposed for power plants, the Supreme Court today upheld the core of EPA’s associated permitting requirements for new carbon pollution sources. At issue was whether large new industrial facilities emitting carbon pollution – including ...
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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Strong Health Standards for Soot Emissions
A federal appeals court today unanimously upheld EPA’s latest health-based clean air standards for fine particulate matter, or soot. Inhaling soot pollution can have serious health consequences, ranging from increased asthma attacks, to heart attacks and premature death. The following is a statement by John Walke, Clean Air Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council: “This ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Can Help Power Plants Reduce Carbon Pollution
Carbon capture and storage technology has a proven track record and is ready to be deployed to help new power plants meet proposed federal standards to limit dangerous carbon pollution, a Natural Resources Defense Council climate expert told Congress on Wednesday. “All aspects of…carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems have been demonstrated at commercial scale industrial ...
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Teva Pharmaceuticals USA to Pay $2.25M Civil Penalty for Air, Water, and Hazardous Waste Violations at Mexico, Mo., Facility
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. has agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the State of Missouri’s Air Conservation Law, Clean Water Law, and Hazardous Waste Management Law at the company’s facility in Mexico, Mo., the Justice Department, EPA ...
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Climate Change Threatens California Economy by Changing Ecosystems
Climate change is likely to harm California's economy by reducing the types of natural, non-irrigated vegetation available for livestock forage and the ability of forest ecosystems to store carbon dioxide, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the scientific journal Climatic Change. The ability of ecosystems to store carbon dioxide is a key part of implementing the state's climate law, ...
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Supreme Court rules against Port of Los Angeles clean trucks program
The Port of Los Angeles may not implement its “off-street parking” and “placard” requirements contained in the Port’s pioneering clean truck program, according to an opinion issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court. The remaining parts of the Port’s clean truck program adopted in October 2008, including its requirements that cleaner, less polluting trucks serve ...
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New NRDC Report Finds Progress On Promises Made At Rio+20, But Calls For More Accountability
There has been significant progress on many of the key globally negotiated and voluntary commitments made at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in June 2012, according to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Stakeholder Forum. “Fulfilling the Rio+20 Promises: Reviewing Progress Since the UN Conference on Sustainable Development” ...
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New Mapping Tool Reveals Thousands of Record-Breaking Extreme Weather Events in 2011
In 2011, there were at least 2,941 monthly weather records broken in communities throughout the U.S., as detailed in a new interactive extreme weather mapping tool and year-end review released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The powerful web-based tool allows Americans to draw the connections between climate change (http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climatebasics.asp) and extreme ...
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NRDC Experts: EPA Carbon Pollution Limits for New Power Plants Workable, Popular and Would Address Climate Change
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed limits on carbon pollution from future power plants are realistic, would deliver real results and have attracted broad support nationwide, experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council will say today in a public hearing. The EPA is holding a daylong hearing in Washington to take public comments on its proposed standard to limit carbon ...
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Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida Lead List of
Residents of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida live in states with the most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The study used publicly-available data in the Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The analysis, entitled "Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States" ...
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Survey: Latinos Reject Rubio Approach To Climate Change, Clean Energy
Aboutthree out of four Latinos believe that climate change is a serious problem and a substantial majority support President Obama using his authority to reduce its main cause: dangerous carbon pollution, according to a national poll of 1,218 registered voters conducted after last week's State of the Union speech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The poll included an oversample ...
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