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Move Your Bloomin' Ash
Curbing air pollution from coal plants can lead to more ash in landfills |
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28 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Move Your Bloomin' Ash Curbing air pollution from coal plants can lead to more ash in landfills The growing pressure to clean up emissions from coal-fired power plants is good for air quality, but it's got a sooty lining: pollution capture could end up filling landfills with millions more tons of toxic ash. More than one-third of the ash currently generated by coal plants is recycled for other uses, but the chemicals commonly u ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Rhymes With Blagojevich
Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S. |
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02 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Rhymes With Blagojevich Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S. Mercury emissions in the U.S. fell by nearly 2 percent between 2003 and 2004, according to newly released federal data, but that small bit of good news masks a troubling trend. Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were actually up 4 percent over the same period, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis, thanks to i ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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That's Hot
States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the 'hot spots' they'll create |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the "hot spots" they'll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency's recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a "cap and trade" system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable threat to publi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Conquered in Concord
New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds |
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25 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Conquered in Concord New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds At risk of getting stuck with a number of toxic mercury hotspots under the Bush administration's new mercury cap-and-trade rule, New Hampshire's Senate approved a bill yesterday to adopt rules more stringent than the feds' and to ban the state's two coal-fired power plants from trading pollution allowances with cleaner ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, New Hampshire, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Scrubs
Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on |
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18 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Scrubs Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on The Bush administration's release of its Clean Air Mercury Rule this week has reignited debate over how well existing technology can remove mercury from emissions at coal-fired power plants. The rule mandates a 70 percent reduction in emissions by 2018, a number many enviros contend current mercury-removal technology can achieve within three to five years. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Kids Absorb the Darndest Things
Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says |
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01 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Kids Absorb the Darndest Things Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says The effects of mercury on fetal development are costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year, says a new study. Some 317,000 to 637,000 children born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to unsafe mercury levels in the womb, and many of them sustain diminished IQs, researchers reported in a National Institutes of Health jour ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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