industrial emissions Books and Publications

ELI Research Brief #1 - New Uses for Old Tools: Protecting Biodiversity and Preventing Pollution Under Existing Laws Report

Pollution prevention, rather than "end of the pipe" treatment of effluent, has recently emerged as the preferred strategy in the reduction of industrial emissions. By signing the Biodiversity Treaty in 1993, President Clinton signaled U.S. recognition that protecting the global ecosystem is one of the ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Technical Report Series No. 27 : Monitoring Industrial Emissions & Wastes

The purpose of this manual is to improve the ability of plant managers to optimize the use of raw materials and energy during production. This will lead to the generation of smaller amounts of discharges, emissions and wastes, and is an essential element in the cleaner production approach to ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Automotive Lubricant Testing and Additive Development

Twelve peer-reviewed papers focus on both the chemical and tribological aspects of automotive lubricant testing and additive development. In order to help the automotive industry meet lower emission standards, higher fuel economy goals, and longer drain intervals associated with a minimization of any ...

By ASTM International

Effective Control of Fugitive Emissions

With the EPA continually pressuring the industry to reduce emissions, control of fugitives is increasingly important to your overall emissions ...

By Catalytic Products International (CPI)

Cement Technology Roadmap 2009 : Carbon emissions reductions up to 2050

Cement Technology Roadmap: Carbon emissions reductions up to 2050” calls for strong national policies to activate known CO 2 mitigation actions that the cement industry can take now to reduce its emissions. It also issues a call to action to develop commercially-viable carbon capture and storage ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change

As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

New Types of Persistent Halogenated Compounds

The book gives an overview of properties and research methods of new persistent organic chlorine and bromine compounds which have been observed as potential environmental hazards especially as bioaccumulated xenobiotics, but intensively studied only recently. Sources from product uses, industrial processes, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change

As rising levels of mercury in the environment pose an increasing threat of toxicity to humans and wildlife, several laws already call for industries to reduce mercury emissions at the source. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination: Indicators of Change outlines the infrastructure and methods needed to ...

By Taylor & Francis Group (USA)

Environmentally Benign Approaches for Pulp Bleaching

is needed as the industry is under constant pressure to reduce environmental emissions to air and water. ...

By Elsevier Inc.

Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System

This balanced analysis presents news from the ‘climate-protection front’. On the down-side, neither the current 'Kyoto-Protocol' Climate Protection System with (legally binding) commitments by major countries to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions nor various proposals for improving the commitment ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

EPA Clamping Down on Ozone Standards

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to again lower its ozone standard. This action reduces the amount of ozone that is allowed in the air we breathe and thus forces more industrial sources to further reduce their air pollution ...

By Catalytic Products International (CPI)

Flexible Mechanisms for an Efficient Climate Policy

In the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, industrialized countries agreed on binding absolute targets for greenhouse gas emissions and on the admission of flexible market-economy instruments - such as emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism - ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States

The crisis of the Santa Barbara offshore oil spill in 1969 led to the passage of radically new environmental laws that made the United States an international leader in environmental protection at the time. Since then, environmental regulation has proved detrimental to both industrial and environmental ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Biotechnology for Environmental Protection in the Pulp and Paper Industry

performance is needed as the industry is also under constant pressure to reduce and modify ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

GEMS Environment Library No. 05: The Contamination of Food

The UNEP/FAO/ WHO Food Contamination Monitoring Programme (GEMS/Food) has been collecting data on food contamination through a network of participating institutes since 1976. In 1988, data from the monitoring programme and other sources covering the years 1971—85 were compiled, analysed and published by GEMS as a joint UNEP/FAO/ WHO document Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in Food. Since ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Surviving 1000 Centuries

The circumstances that will shape the long-term future of our planet will be constrained by what is physically possible and what is not. This book provides a quantitative view of our civilization over the next 100,000 years, in comparison to the 40-60,000 years it took for modern humans to emerge from Africa, on the basis of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. The first 5 ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Carbon Reduction: Policies, Strategies and Technologies

In this time of increasingly pressing concern about global climate change and its potentially irreversible and detrimental impacts on the world's population, it is considered urgent to find effective means for significantly reducing local, regional, national and international greenhouse gas emissions in ...

By The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)

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