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EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that are already in use at more than half of the nation’s coal-fired power plants.
EPA estimates that the new safeguards will prevent as many as 11,000 premature deaths and 4,700 heart attacks a year. ... |
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The Durban Deal was done, but what next?
More than a week has passed since the dramatic conclusion of the Durban Summit, and still there appears to be little in the way of a consensus on whether the platform for action agreed in the early hours represents an historic breakthrough or yet another disastrous delay.
But the debate between the small band of obsessives who closely observe every twist and turn in the ... |
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Here’s what they’re saying about mercury and air toxics standards
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of ...
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Google shines on solar sector with $94m investment
Google has confirmed it will invest $94m in four large scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, edging the total amount invested by the search giant in ...
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Chevron used secret lab to hide dirty soil samples from ecuador court, say company documents
In an ever more stunning expose of Chevron`s fraud before the Ecuador court, a U.S. federal judge has ordered the disclosure of documents that demonstrate ...
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California tightens up transport fuel rules to block dirty oil
Californian oil refiners will be deterred from processing crudes from tar sands and other carbon intensive sources, under changes to transport fuel standards ...
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A 20-year wait for a disappointing revision of vehicle noise limits
The Commission has published its long-awaited proposals on reducing noise from cars, vans, buses and lorries, but the vast majority of cars already meet ...
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B&W Awarded $2.8 Million in DOE Funding for Carbon Capture Research
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC) announced today that its Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) ...
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NRCS California Allocates $1 Million to Fund Tribal-Specific Conservation Practices
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California has partnered with California`s ...
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China at Durban: first steps toward a new climate agreement
The UN Climate Conference in Durban, South Africa, concluded over the weekend with a consensus to negotiate an agreement that will include all major emitters ...
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Global initiative for sharing information takes off at Eye on Earth Summit
At the Eye on Earth summit in Abu Dhabi this week, many different global and national organisations committed to contributing large volumes of environmental ...
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Quebec joins carbon market in North America
Quebec`s Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Pierre Arcand, today announced the adoption of the Regulation respecting the ...
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Business leaders call on EU to protect the carbon price
Some of Europe`s largest businesses have demanded that the EU take urgent action to shore up its emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) as carbon prices dropped ...
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