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Sprint to the Finish Beijing struggles to clear air in time for Olympics		31 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:21 PM on 31 Dec 2007 The good news: Beijing narrowly achieved its air-pollution goal of 245 "blue sky days" in 2007. The bad news: Skepticism abounds that the city will offer wholly breathable air when it hosts the upcoming Summer Olympics. "We're definitely hoping for the best," says Jon Kolb, a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, "but preparing for the worst." While Beijing ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, sports (all these topics)

Flying By Nitrogen Ammonium drifts into national parks		28 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:24 PM on 28 Dec 2007 You may not be able to smell cow poop in Yellowstone, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain National Parks, but the air there has become increasingly contaminated with nitrogen compound ammonium, says a recent report from the National Park Service. Possibly originating in concentrated animal feeding operations, ammonium in the three parks -- as well as six other parks in Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, and Utah -- was m ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, industrial ag, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

On the Ball: Ready for the Olympics? It's almost 2008, and Beijing's air is still polluted	Sarah K. Burkhalter	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The city of Beijing has been striving to clear its air for the sake of the Olympic athletes who will descend upon the city this coming summer -- but whether it will be able to pull off blue skies remains to be seen. Beijingers were warned to stay inside today, as pollution hit 'as bad as it can get,' according to a spokesperson from the city's Environmental Protection Bureau, who adds, 'This is as bad as it has been all year.' The International Olympic Committee ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, green living, sports (all these topics)

Those Dental Bills Will Kill You Health officials concerned about mercury pollution from crematories		26 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:54 PM on 26 Dec 2007 More and more Americans are electing to be cremated, teeth and all. Stay with us here: Many dental fillings contain mercury, and health officials across the U.S. are raising concerns that mercury emissions from crematories will have adverse health effects on those still living. In one Colorado county, officials won't allow a mortician to move in unless he install ...
Topics: air pollution, mercury, news, toxics (all these topics)

Johnson's staff	David Roberts	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Reporting in the L.A. Times, Janet Wilson confirms (as Juliet Eilperin did earlier) that EPA staff unanimously recommended granting California's waiver, and that they were shut out of the final decision: [EPA staff] advised him to either grant the waiver outright or give California a temporary one for three years. Instead, three sources said, Johnson cut off any consultation with his technical staff for the last month and made his decision before having the ...
Topics: air pollution, California, shenanigans, politics, US EPA, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Waxman investigates	David Roberts	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Per his threat yesterday, House Oversight Committee chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has initiated an investigation into the EPA's decision to deny California's waiver.
Topics: US EPA, California, politics, air pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

More on EPA's waiver decision	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Juliet Eilperin's got a really crackerjack story on the California waiver in the WaPo. It's devastating to Johnson. It also confirms a lot of stuff that I, a mere blogger, could only speculate about irresponsibly. First of all, the EPA staff was foursquare against this decision: EPA's lawyers and policy staff had reached the same conclusion [that the decision is 'legally and technically unjustified and indefensible'], said several agency officials familiar with the ...
Topics: US EPA, California, air pollution, fuel efficiency, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Johnson's nuts Analysis of the EPA's decision to deny California's waiver	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned below, today the U.S. EPA denied California's request for a waiver exempting it from federal fuel economy standards, allowing it to implement its own standards. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced the decision in a rushed press conference following President Bush's signing of the energy bill. The announcement came with a veritable torrent of dishonest spin. Let me try to disentangle some of it. 1. Johnson leaned heavily on today's passage of t ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA, California, climate, energy (all these topics)

Breaking: EPA announcing ruling on California waiver at 6:30 Eastern	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The EPA just sent out an email advisory saying that Administrator Stephen Johnson will announce the agency's decision on the California air standards waiver ... in about 30 minutes. (Background on the waiver issue here, here, and here.) The lack of lead time might lead one to believe that they want to bury this news. Which might lead one to believe that they're going to deny California the waiver. Boxer and Waxman have both said they expect that outcome. That would ...
Topics: US EPA, air pollution, politics, California, energy, climate (all these topics)

Annals of irritance Feinstein agrees with Big Auto about federal fuel efficiency standards	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
UPDATE: Feinstein is now trying to dig out of this.In all the galling news of today, this probably ranks as a mere annoyance, but still: Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) has her imprimatur on an expression of opinion that could, if it became law, void her own state's pioneering tailpipe pollution laws, just when the courts are explicitly upholding them. Some background: As you probably know, one of the fondest dreams of the American auto industry is to get something passed ...
Topics: legislation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, US EPA, Big Auto, air pollution, politics (all these topics)

A Thorn in Our Sulfide U.S. EPA considers regulating hydrogen sulfide, industry not into the idea		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:29 PM on 11 Dec 2007 It may be shocking to learn that a gas with the odor of rotten eggs is actually not good for you, but sure enough: the U.S. EPA is considering regulating hydrogen sulfide, a nasty-smelling gas that emanates from oil refineries, paper mills, landfills, CAFOs, and any other place where organic material containing sulfur decomposes. Hydrogen sulfide is known to be dead ...
Topics: air pollution, health, jackassery, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner More amendments	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Inhofe amendment No. 13 would require the Commerce Secretary to report annually whether L-W would cost 10,000 automotive jobs in the year to come. It failed. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) amendment No. 1 would cap and ratchet down noncarbon pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Amendment is withdrawn for now.
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The tropical global warming solution Bali conference could end deforestation overnight	Glenn Hurowitz	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post was co-written with Dorjee Sun, the head of Carbon Conservation, a company that works to protect forests in Indonesia from destruction. ----- Photo: www.viajar24h.com Bali, Indonesia, is the perfect backdrop for this week's climate summit. No country better embodies the immense peril of inaction -- and the immense opportunity this meeting has to make massive and immediate progress in stemming the climate crisis. Indonesia is the wo ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Not-so-smooth sailing New study finds that pollution from ships kills 60,000 a year	Kit Stolz	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
It's surprising how much pollution ships emit: over 2,000 tons of diesel soot a year in southern California, for example, about 10 percent of the total in the region. Worse, a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Rochester Institute of Technology finds that the burning of cheap, dirty, sulfurous "residual oil" on ships kills an estimated 60,000 people around the world. "Premature mortality" is the phrase used in the study. A ...
Topics: air pollution, health, scientific research (all these topics)

Beijing Dispatch: Olympic preview? Beijing temporarily clears the air	Christina Larson	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I arrived in Beijing in late October, in time for the last days of the Communist Party's 17th National Congress. That's the top political conference that takes place once every five years, and the city was swarming with national and international visitors and press. That day there were blue skies in Beijing. No kidding. The streets were swept clean, the sidewalk vendors gone, the DVD hawkers on holiday. There were many more police on the street, fewer cars. The ...
Topics: air pollution, China (all these topics)

Cool things happening at the local level California 'cool cities' are taking the lead on climate change	Rep Jane Harman	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Now in her seventh term, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice) represents California's 36th Congressional District. Jane Harman. Even sunny skies and pleasant ocean breezes over much of our state can't mask the fact that Californians breathe some of the most polluted air in the nation. California is the world's 12th largest source of carbon dioxide, the chief heat-trapping gas that causes global warming. As dirty as our air is, we are taking the lead nati ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Fire This Time Researchers quantify U.S. wildfire carbon emissions		01 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:47 AM on 01 Nov 2007 The estimations are in on the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from Southern California's recent wildfires. And the winner is ... somewhere between about 6 million tons and 8 million tons. Which sounds like a lot, but on average, wildfires in the United States each year spew some 300 million tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to about 5 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions from ...
Topics: air pollution, California, news, United States (all these topics)

Loony behavior Mercury pollution is driving loons crazy	Erik Hoffner	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This year I spent some lazy late-summer days watching loons patrol a wilderness area lake I'd backpacked to. I should have been totally relaxed and enjoying this gorgeous and remote spot in the Adirondacks, but I couldn't help wondering if these birds had succeeded in hatching a brood, with no sign of little ones about. A friend at the Biodiversity Research Institute had told me of a paper they were soon publishing, which demonstrated the negative impacts of methyl merc ...
Topics: air pollution, mercury, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I've been a Republican my whole life, but I'll be doggoned if Al Gore isn't right. Is it fair for you and me -- this generation -- to pollute for all the generations to come when we're already seeing the effects -- global warming, mercury, particulate matter?' -- newly minted environmentalist Sammy Prim
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, quotables (all these topics)

Everything: Still going to hell Brundtland update finds problems unsolved	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
How about a big, gristly, indigestible hunk of bad news? Yeah? OK! Everything that was going to hell 20 years ago is still going to hell (sub rqd): Twenty years after the seminal ... Brundtland Commission report "Our Common Future" warned of persistent global environmental degradation, the most pressing concerns facing the world's climate and ecology show no signs of improvement. ... "On all the fundamental major challenges and tr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, endangered species, fishing, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

All the Ooze That's Fit to Print Printers emit hazardous particles, says study		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 23 Oct 2007 You thought the office was a safe refuge for your lungs, a place to escape from the smoggy outdoors? You were wrong. Beware the polluting printer, says a new study. No one is safe! From the Archives Doing the Hunt Work. Less hunters mean less funding for conservation, states find. Assuming There Will Be a Future, Of Course. New report makes suggestions for su ...
Topics: air pollution, business, news (all these topics)

Liar, Liar, Purifier California bans in-home ozone air purifiers		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:20 PM on 28 Sep 2007 In-home air purifiers that emit more than a tiny amount of ozone will be banned under a new California regulation. While manufacturers of ozone air purifiers claim that their products can relieve asthma and other respiratory symptoms, thousands of studies have shown that ozone exposure can actually worsen such conditions. "There are reports of ozone being generated in someone's living room ... ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, news, ozone, regulation (all these topics)

Health Class L.A. building schools close to freeways		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ...
Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Fear to Tread Alt-fuel industry recycles rubber tires, contributes to air pollution		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:12 PM on 18 Sep 2007 A decade-old industry that recycles old rubber tires into fuel is chipping away at the stockpile of 1 billion retired tires in the U.S. But the laudable recycling effort is balanced by a negative impact on air pollution, as the U.S. EPA's clean-air regulations for burning solid waste include a loophole loosening requirements for facilities that "recover energy." Now a r ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, news, politics, recycling, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

What the Hail? Air pollution makes hail bigger		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 13 Sep 2007 Caution: air pollution causes big ol' hail. From the Archives Trouble Cropping Up. Climate change will cause agricultural output to decline significantly, says study. Can You Greenwash Yourself With It? Talking Rain adds organic water flavors. Permanent Depress. Top 10 most polluted places on earth tallied by Blacksmith Institute. News Archives
Topics: air pollution, news, severe weather (all these topics)

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