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EPA releases final report on air toxics near Minneapolis middle school, finds pollutants below levels of concern (MN)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced today that the final report based on the school air toxics monitoring data from Minnesota International Middle Charter School in Minneapolis, Minn., has been posted on the Agency’s Website. Based on the monitoring results, EPA found no concern for risk of health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to diisocyanates or other ...
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New air toxic rules will require huge expansion of activated carbon, fabric filters and bag production
The U.S. EPA has just proposed rules to limit power plant air toxics in the U.S. These rules are expected to reduce 91 percent of the mercury from being released as well as greatly reduce emissions of hydrogen chloride and toxic metals such as arsenic and chromium. McIlvaine (www.mcilvainecompany.com) is providing continuing analysis of the impact of this regulation in Mercury Air Reduction ...
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Air toxics near St. Helens Elementary School are below levels of concern - EPA posts final air toxics monitoring report today (WA)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 announced today that the final report based on the school air toxics monitoring data from St. Helen’s Elementary School in Longview, Washington, has been posted on the Agency’s website. EPA found air toxics concentrations are below the levels of concern associated with health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near Lincoln Elementary School, no unsafe levels of manganese, Nickel or other toxic metals detected (IN)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced today that the final report based on the school air toxics monitoring data from Lincoln Elementary School in Warsaw, Ind., has been posted on the Agency’s website. Based on the monitoring results, EPA found no concern for risk of health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to manganese, nickel, or other toxic metals in the ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near St. Josaphat School, no unsafe levels of hexavalent chromium, lead or other toxic metals detected
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced today that the final report based on the school air toxics monitoring data from St. Josaphat School in Chicago, Ill., has been posted on the Agency’s website. Based on the monitoring results, EPA found no concern for risk of health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to hexavalent chromium, lead, or other toxic metals. EPA ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near Lincoln Park elementary school, no unsafe levels of Nickel, Cobalt, Hexavalent Chromium or other toxic metals detected (MI)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced today that the final report based on the school air toxics monitoring data from Lincoln Park Elementary School in Muskegon, Mich., has been posted on the Agency’s website. Based on the monitoring results, EPA found no concern for risk of health problems from short-term or long-term exposures to nickel, cobalt, hexavalent chromium, or ...
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EIP `Toxic 10` Report: Power Plants Emitting Most Mercury Account For Nearly a Fifth of All Such Pollution
Even though mercury and other hazardous air pollution from U.S. power plants are declining, the progress at the coal-fired power plants are uneven, leaving in place a significant remaining risk to the health of the public and environment, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Coal-burning power plants release millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air ...
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Experts to discuss benefits to kansas city metro area from EPA`s proposed standards for Mercury, air toxics pollution from power plants
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks will host a news conference with local environmental and health officials on Tuesday, March 22, in Kansas City, Mo., to discuss potential benefits to the metro area from EPA’s recently proposed national standards for mercury and air toxics pollution from power plants. The Agency is proposing a new rule that represents one of the strongest protections ...
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Air toxics near harriet tubman school are below levels of concern
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final report on analysis of air toxics monitoring data near Harriet Tubman School in Portland, Oregon. EPA and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will host a public meeting on the air monitoring report at Harriet Tubman School on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. EPA found that concentrations of the majority of air toxics ...
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New Report on `Green` Recycling Industry Exposes Unregulated Toxic Air Pollution Threat - California Agency to be First in the Nation to Regulate Toxic Air Pollution from Industry
EL CERRITO, Calif. - A new report by a leading California Environmental Justice group, Global Community Monitor (GCM), has uncovered a potentially massive problem from the nation's billion dollar metal recycling industry. The report finds that metal recycling, generally considered a green industry, both releases toxic air contaminants during processing operations and is currently unregulated. In ...
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Most Coal Plants Have Emissions Controls Needed to Meet Mercury Limits, EIA Reports
Seventy percent of coal-fired power plants have the necessary pollution control equipment to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency mercury and air toxics standards, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Another 6 percent are planning to install pollution controls, and 8 percent are planning to close rather than invest in the expensive equipment, the EIA said in a ...
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EPA proposes first national standard for mercury pollution from power plants // “mercury and air toxics standards” represent one of strongest health protections from air pollution since passage of clean air act
In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new Power Plant Mercury and Air Toxics Standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven ...
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EPA proposes first national standard for mercury pollution from power plants / mercury and air toxics standards represent one of strongest health protections from air pollution since passage of clean air act
In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven ...
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EPA study of toxic air pollution near Elizabeth, NJ Middle school finds air pollutants below levels of concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that a seven-month study of toxic air pollution outside the Mabel Holmes Middle School in Elizabeth, New Jersey did not find pollution levels of concern. From August 2009 to January 2010, EPA monitored the air for acetaldehyde, benzene, nickel and other metals, which are toxic air pollutants commonly associated with industrial facilities, ...
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EPA issues final report on toxic air pollution near Paulsboro High School, N.J.; finds pollutants below levels of concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that an eight-month study of toxic air pollution outside Paulsboro High School in Paulsboro, New Jersey did not find levels of concern. From August 2009 to February 2010, EPA monitored the air for acetaldehyde, benzene, nickel and other metals, which are toxic air pollutants commonly associated with industrial facilities such as oil ...
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EPA expected to treat coal ash waste like garbage
Environmentalists and industry experts widely expect the first federal standards for the waste generated from coal burned for electricity to treat the ash like household garbage, rather than a hazardous material. The Obama administration is under court order to unveil the rule Friday, ending a six-year effort that began after a massive spill at a Tennessee power plant in 2008. Since then, the ...
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