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Environment agency warns government over climate change damage
Lord Smith, the new head of the Environment Agency, this week gave a cautionary warning to the government over the folly of continuing with climate damaging super projects like the third runway at Heathrow, and the proposed new coal power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. He also highlighted the threat that climate change induced sea level rises and coastal erosion will have on the UK’s coast line ...
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Sustainability and global warming decisions are best made with universal rating system
Corporations and governments are making major decisions relative to sustainability issues including energy efficiency, employee relations, global warming, health and safety. A number of sustainability evaluation tools have been developed. However, compartmentalization is a major flaw in all of them. It allows fair comparison of one cigarette company to another but not fair comparison of a ...
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Statement from EPA on coal ash
WASHINGTON - EPA's pending decision on regulating coal ash waste from power plants, expected this month, will be delayed for a short period due to the complexity of the analysis the agency is currently finishing. As part of her commitment to ensuring the protection of public health and the environment regarding coal ash, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson had set a deadline to complete the ...
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Coal/Biomass combination with CO2 capture greener than renewables but not most eco-efficient
If a combination of coal and biomass provided the energy source for electricity and the CO2 from the combustion was captured, there would be more carbon extracted from the atmosphere than returned to it. The best global warming reducer would be a 100 percent biomass boiler with 90 percent CO2 capture, but there is not enough biomass to generate the electricity the world needs. However, a ...
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International engineering firm attracts environmental permitting talent
ARCADIS, the international consulting and engineering company, today announced the hire of Robert Everard as a senior utility program manager. Mr. Everard has more than a decade of environmental studies and permitting experience for a wide range of projects. In recent years, he has specialized in permitting and due diligence activities for projects in the energy sector, particularly wind energy. ...
By Arcadis
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Dirtiest Power Plants in the USA Named
WASHINGTON, DC, July 26, 2007 (ENS) - Nevada Power's Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant has a higher emission rate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than any other power plant in the United States, according to a new ranking issued today by the Environmental Integrity Project. The report ranks the 378 largest power plants in the country based on company-reported data. When it comes to total ...
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China, US, India push world carbon emissions up
Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons (36.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. That is 778 ...
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World leaders urged to kick killer coal habit
Leaders of G7 countries at this weekend’s summit in Germany are being called on today to show leadership by pledging to end all coal burning for electricity generation in the industrialised world. “Let Them Eat Coal”, a report by the international relief charity Oxfam, explains how it can be achieved without financial difficulty, and warns that continuing to burn coal will kill ...
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New York Subpoenas Five Energy Companies for Climate Risks
ALBANY, New York, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Friday sent subpoenas to five of the nation's largest energy companies, demanding that they disclose the financial risks of their greenhouse gas emissions to shareholders, specifically to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Attorney General Cuomo sent letters to the top executives of AES Corporation, ...
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Minamata Convention will help China and India avoid mercury emissions in 2050
Under the United Nations Minamata Convention on mercury, China and India could avoid a combined 242 tonnes of mercury emissions in 2050 from coal-fired power plants, a new study predicts. This amount is equal to approximately 12% of total emissions in 2010. While the benefits will be mostly regional, lower mercury deposition in surrounding oceans is good news for Europeans who eat fish sourced ...
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DOE awards $84M for 18 carbon-capture projects
The Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded $84 million to 18 projects across the country to help limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. The projects focus on so-called carbon-capture technologies intended to limit pollution blamed for global warming. "Coal and other fossil fuels still provide 80 percent of our energy, 70 percent of our electricity and will be a ...
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EPA denies politics delayed pollution rules
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency denied Thursday that the agency delayed formal publication of carbon pollution rules for new power plants for political reasons, as Republican senators have claimed. The proposed rules would impose tough requirements on new coal-fired power plants, setting the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide and other pollutants blamed for global warming. EPA ...
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China Air Pollution Hits Record Levels; Relief May be as Close as the Nearest Five Star Hotel
Air Pollution is a major problem in China due to the country's rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, growth in car ownership and disregard for environmental laws. "The Beijing Shijitan Hospital received 20 percent more patients than usual at its respiratory health department, most of them coughing and seeking treatment for bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory ailments," Dr. ...
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Can the World Bank lead on climate change?
“The World Bank needs to demonstrate leadership to steer investment towards low carbon, environmentally sustainable development choices,” said Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute, which produced the analysis. “This will be difficult to achieve while simultaneously investing in many ‘business as usual’ projects, such as coal-fired power.” At the Gleneagles Summit in 2005, ...
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Mercury Hotspots Detected in Eastern U.S. and Canada
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) – U.S. sources of mercury emissions, particularly coal-fired power plants, are the major cause of five biological mercury hotspots identified in New England, New York and Nova Scotia, according to two new scientific studies. The findings indicate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is greatly underestimating local and regional impacts of mercury emissions, but ...
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House passes bill to block Obama climate plan
Aiming at the heart of President Barack Obama's strategy for fighting climate change, the Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to block the administration's plan to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. The bill targets Obama's proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency to set the first national limits on heat-trapping carbon pollution from future power plants. It's part of ...
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New Montana Power Plant Permit Appealed
HELENA, Montana (ENS) - Two citizens groups are appealing the air permit for the Highwood Generating Facility, a new coal-fired power plant proposed for construction on top of the Great Falls Portage National Historic Landmark outside of Great Falls, Montana. On behalf of the Montana Environmental Information Center and Citizens for Clean Energy, the public interest environmental law firm ...
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US, Japan miss UN Climate Change Fund Deadline
A key U.N. climate fund hit a snag Thursday as major donors including the United States and Japan failed to meet a deadline for converting their pledges of climate aid into signed agreements. Green Climate Fund - intended to become the main international channel of climate finance for developing countries - said it had inked deals for 42 percent of the $10 billion that governments pledged last ...
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Australian businesses set to reduce emissions 30% by 2010
In a major step towards becoming a green community, commercial energy users in Victoria’s Castlemaine district have officially began work on an innovative project to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The project is the first of its kind in Victoria and sees KR Castlemaine, Flowserve, Victoria Carpets and the Mount Alexander Hospital commit to collectively reduce 2006 greenhouse gas ...
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Unmask my City: Anti-air pollution campaign launched in Europe
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is calling on city authorities to clean up the air in Europe as part of the “Unmask my City” campaign launched today on World Asthma Day 2017. Unmask My City (1) is a global initiative by doctors, nurses, public health practitioners, and allied healthcare professionals dedicated to improving air quality and reducing emissions in our cities. ...
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