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Tour de pig If you can't stand the smell, tough luck	Steph Larsen	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Duplin County, N.C. stinks. And no wonder. Its human population is just under 50,000 people, but it is also home to 2.2 million [PDF] of North Carolina's 10 million hogs [PDF]. Last week, I went on a bus tour of Duplin County as a part of the Politics of Food Conference to see how confined animal feeding operations impact rural communities. It was not pretty. Our guides on this tour were Dr. Sacoby Wilson, an assistant research professor at the University of South Car ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, animal welfare, health, industrial ag, livestock, North Carolina (all these topics)

Smog in Your Throat? Houston joins Los Angeles in having 'severe' smog problem		03 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 10:31 AM on 03 Oct 2008 Houston has received the dubious honor of becoming the second U.S. city to have a "severe" smog problem, as classified by the U.S. EPA. Los Angeles is its partner in grime. The downgrade from a "moderate" to "severe" smog problem gives Texas' largest city nine extra years to meet federal air-quality standards. Both Houston and L.A. have, however, taken re ...
Topics: air pollution, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Very serious study of where the Titanic's deck chairs should go CFL study argues against a mandate to switch from incandescents	JMG	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Choose your metaphor: losing sight of the forest for the details of the leaves in the trees, Pyrrhic victory, you name it. All could be applied to this study here, which looks at countries and states according to how much mercury would drop or rise in their air if they switched from incandescent lighting to compact fluorescent lighting. Astoundingly, they come out against a mandate to make the lighting switch, arguing that: 'All sustainability issues are local,' said Zimmerma ...
Topics: air pollution, electricty, energy, energy at home, scientific research (all these topics)

License and Sensibility Beijing extends traffic-control measures to keep smog away		29 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:57 AM on 29 Sep 2008 Beijing enjoyed its best air quality in a decade during the Olympic Games, thanks in part to strict traffic-control measures. Pleased by their success, city officials have unveiled ongoing modified measures in hopes of continuing to ward off the smog. Under rules that go into effect Oct. 11, privately owned vehicles will be banned from driving on one weekday, with the particular d ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, China, news, Olympics (all these topics)

Mad About Poo EPA slipping up on pollution control from factory farms, report says		24 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 5:07 AM on 24 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA has failed to control pollution from factory farms and has also been sluggish in determining risks to human health from huge concentrated animal-feeding operations, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. In recent years, the GAO said, consolidation in the livestock industry has spawned more and more factory farms that have also expanded i ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Smokey Joe rides again Texas Rep. Joe Barton kills effort to clean up power plants	Frank O'Donnell	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In 2003, a Dallas Morning News editorial dubbed Republican Congressman Joe Barton 'Smokey Joe' for his efforts to protect Texas polluters from pollution control requirements. Now Smokey Joe is at it again. He has blocked an attempt in Congress to make at least some progress towards cleaning up coal-fired power plants. The issue involves a compromise plan put together by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), and Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.)that w ...
Topics: politics, Congress, legislation, air pollution, coal, lobbying (all these topics)

Leave Yellowstone Unturned Judge tosses federal plan to allow more snowmobiles into Yellowstone		15 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:23 PM on 15 Sep 2008 A National Park Service plan to allow 540 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park has been tossed out by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Monday that allowing that many 'mobiles would increase air and noise pollution and be disturbing to wildlife -- conclusions drawn, he noted, by NPS's own data. Increasing the allowed number of snowm ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, National Park Service, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

A Matter of Import Palin asks Schwarzenegger to veto bill that would reduce port pollution		12 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:25 AM on 12 Sep 2008 One day before being catapulted into the running for GOP vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote a letter to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), urging him to veto a significant pollution-reduction effort. Specifically, she asked the Governator to not sign a bill that would impose container fees on ships entering the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakla ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, economy, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, state politics (all these topics)

The Longest Yard EPA requires emissions cuts by lawn mowers and speedboats		04 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Sep 2008 Gas-powered lawn mowers and speedboat engines will be cleaner under new regulations announced Thursday by the U.S. EPA. By 2011, engines in new lawn and garden equipment must emit 35 percent less smog-forming emissions, and recreational watercraft must cut emissions 70 percent by 2010. "EPA's new small engine standards will allow Americans to cut air pollution as well as grass," ...
Topics: air pollution, news, progress, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Was It All Just a Game to You? Beijing officials consider extending some clean-air measures beyond Olympics		25 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:59 AM on 25 Aug 2008 Beijing's emergency measures to clear its famously polluted air during the Olympic Games have been largely successful, with the city reportedly experiencing the cleanest summer air it's had for over a decade. But now that the Olympics are over, full-time city residents have been pointing out how pleasant breathable air has been and how nice it would be to ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, Olympics, politics (all these topics)

Olympic trials: The air not there Athletes play down pollution concerns, Beijing gives in to weather	Sara Barz	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Not so bad. That's what Olympic Canadian cyclist Svein Tuft thought of the air quality when he raced on Saturday, Aug. 9 (Air Pollution Index: 78) for six and a half hours outside of Beijing. As The New York Times reported, Tuft made short shrift of the pollution fears: Beijing. Photo taken Aug. 15. The pollution concerns, he decided, 'have been a massive hype.' And Tuft isn't alone in his pollution dismissal. Wimbledon champion and Spanish tennis player Rafae ...
Topics: air pollution, China, green living, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

What the Helmet? Anti-bike crusader halts San Francisco's cycle-friendly plans		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:45 AM on 20 Aug 2008 With a claim that bike lanes increase pollution, a San Francisco resident has managed to put the brakes on the city's pro-biking plans. In 2004, San Francisco unveiled a proposal to create more bike lanes and bike parking, aiming to have 10 percent of city trips taken on two wheels by 2010. Enter Rob Anderson, who doesn't own a car but is no fan of cyclists. "The behavior of the ...
Topics: air pollution, bikes, insanity, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

Heart Monitor Court tosses federal rule that limited air-pollution monitoring		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:01 PM on 19 Aug 2008 States can enact tougher-than-federal monitoring requirements for air pollution from factories and power plants, after a federal appeals court tossed out a U.S. EPA rule keeping them from doing so. Primary plaintiff Sierra Club celebrated the victory; defendants were the U.S. EPA and the American Petroleum Institute, which should seem like an odd pair, but somehow just doesn't surprise ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, news, Sierra Club, US EPA (all these topics)

Highway Near the Danger Zone One in three schools too close to highways for clean air, study says		18 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 5:38 PM on 18 Aug 2008 One third of American public schools are in an "air pollution danger zone," researchers at the University of Cincinnati found in a new study to be published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. They defined danger zones as areas within a quarter-mile of heavily trafficked highways. Diesel particles and other pollutants from highways can ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, scientific research, urban planning (all these topics)

Jogging with WaPo in Beijing A purely anecdotal, non-athlete's perspective of the air quality in Beijing	Sara Barz	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, China, Olympics, sports, video (all these topics)

The sky's the limit Why smoggy skies over Beijing represent the world's greatest environmental opportunity	Joseph Romm	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows, now living in China, has written a glass-is-half-full (air-is-half-breathable?) article, 'China's Silver Lining.' While I think he is a bit soft on China from a climate perspective, I think it is well worth reading because Fallows is terrific and thorough writer. And you have to like any story on energy that begins with an entrepreneur promoting Recycled Energy. Also, there is little doubt that given the decades-old refu ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, health (all these topics)

Olympic trials: Something's in the air Smog settles on Beijing for opening ceremony	Sara Barz	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Friday: On the day of the Olympic opening ceremonies, the Air Pollution Index reading was a moderate 94 (see the 'Beijing Air Quality' box on the right side of this page): View of Beijing's third ring road and CCTV building. Photo taken Aug. 8. And here's the same view one week earlier, when the API reading was a 27: View of Beijing's third ring road and CCTV building. Photo taken Aug. 1.
Topics: air pollution, China, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

It's Oly Temporary Olympic Games begin; pollution worries, haze hang over opening ceremonies		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:06 AM on 08 Aug 2008 The Beijing Olympic Games have officially begun. The opening ceremony kicked off at 8:08 p.m. local time on 08/08/08. So far, pollution readings are said to be moderate, with various Olympic officials and health authorities declaring the Games largely safe for athletes and visitors -- as long as they're just passing through and their sporting events last less than an hou ...
Topics: air pollution, China, international politics, news, Olympics, politics, sports (all these topics)

Olympic trials: The view from the stadium Athletes forgo masks; Beijing skies gray on Olympics eve	Sara Barz	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Athletes, journalists, and world dignitaries were greeted with a thick white haze yesterday and today as they descended upon Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games. Much to the Ministry of Environmental Protection's chagrin, the weather has not delivered the "clear and blue" skies as promised when Beijing was awarded the games. However, as CTV reported, today's haze may not be as bad as it looks. According to a Canadian Olympic Committee climatologist, Doug ...
Topics: air pollution, China, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

The shameful, polluted Olympics IOC and multi-nationals complicit in subjecting world class athletes to world class pollution	Joseph Romm	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
You can't criticize awarding the Olympic Games to China just because their rapacious coal-building policy has now made them the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. By that standard, America should never have been awarded the games. But awarding the games to a city that is one of the most polluted in the world -- let alone in a country that has such a shameful record on human rights -- is simply unconscionable. And quite unfair to the athletes. Co ...
Topics: air pollution, China, coal, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

Green Groups Doing a 'Face Plant' Two coal plants given go-ahead by green groups after concessions negotiated		07 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 7:00 AM on 07 Aug 2008 Environmental groups dropped their opposition to two different coal-fired power plant expansion projects in Wisconsin and Texas this week after the utilities agreed to a range of concessions designed to limit the environmental impacts of the plants. In Texas, power company NRG reached an agreement with Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition and the Environment ...
Topics: air pollution, business, climate, coal, Environmental Defense Fund, news, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Olympic trials: The air up there Beijing skies vary days before Olympics	Sara Barz	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Monday: Taken from a Beijing apartment on Aug. 4: Tuesday: Proving that the weather and pollution levels are completely unpredictable, the weather of Aug. 5 was sunny and clear: A silver lining to all this pollution pandemonium? After the Olympic games China will start to monitor two pollutants not currently figured into the Air Pollution Index: ozone and small particulate matter PM2.5. And James Fallows of the Atlantic reports that at least one of the n ...
Topics: air pollution, China, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

Crush into you Crusher credit: one of many savvy short-term solutions	David Roberts	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In case you missed it, noted economist Alan Blinder made the case for a crusher credit in the NYT last week. The idea is to pay fair market value to buy up old, polluting cars. (If you read Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece from a while back, you'll remember that a fairly small core of very old cars produces most of the air pollution.) This would serve to stimulate the economy, redistribute wealth downward, and reduce air pollution, with a total social benefit that d ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, economy, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Olympic trials: Air, air, everywhere, and not a bit to breathe Gray skies loom over Beijing as Chinese officials announce emergency air-pollution measures	Sara Barz	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Beijing. Photo: melosh A haze descended on Beijing for four consecutive days earlier this week and made a fitting backdrop for state environmental regulators to announce emergency measures that they'll put in place if air pollution remains a problem. More power plants and manufacturing facilities could be shut down, and more cars pulled from the roads, according to a news release from the Ministry of Environmental Protection. This second wave of shut-downs wou ...
Topics: air pollution, China, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

A Sporting Chance Beijing skies clear a little, but Olympic athletes still wary		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:03 AM on 29 Jul 2008 After a disconcertingly smoggy weekend, wind and rain cleared some haze from Beijing's skies on Tuesday. But with just a week and half left until the Olympic Games begin, officials are considering emergency measures to keep the smog at bay. The city has already kicked half the cars off its roads, halted construction, planted trees, and closed down some factories; officials said Monda ...
Topics: air pollution, China, green living, health, news, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

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