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Pier Pressure
Dockworkers' union pressures seaports to cut emissions |
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01 Feb 2006 |
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| Pier Pressure Dockworkers' union pressures seaports to cut emissions Sittin' on the dock of the bay, gettin' lung cancer ... wait, that's not how the song goes? Tell it to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 60,000 dockworkers on the West Coast, which this week is kicking off a campaign to pressure ports and shipowners to cut diesel emissions. The massive seaports in Los Angeles and Long Beac ... |
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| Topics: news, pollution and waste, West Coast (all these topics) |
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Fine and Randy
Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines |
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31 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines A Bush administration deal announced yesterday will allow thousands of factory farms to evade pollution fines. The U.S. EPA has signed consent agreements with nearly 2,700 companies in the egg, poultry, dairy, and hog industries, exempting them from paying major daily fines for toxic air emissions. The companies will ante up a flat $2,500 to pa ... |
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| Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The End is Nigeria
Oil pollution, corruption contribute to hostage-taking in Nigeria |
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20 Jan 2006 |
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| The End is Nigeria Oil pollution, corruption contribute to hostage-taking in Nigeria In Nigeria, oil, corruption, pollution, and violence have produced a drama rich with 21st-century portent. Last week, militants in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region took four Western oil workers hostage. Their demands include more local control of Nigeria's massive oil wealth -- the proceeds of which typically end up in the ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, Nigeria, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Mercury Revising
New mercury plan from local regulators would be stronger than Bush's |
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14 Nov 2005 |
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| Mercury Revising New mercury plan from local regulators would be stronger than Bush's Prompted by concerns that the Bush administration's plan to battle mercury pollution wouldn't do much to, uh, battle mercury pollution, two groups of state and local air-quality regulators (bet the parties rock at that convention) have crafted a stronger plan -- and they say at least 20 states are interested. The Bushies' new federal reg ... |
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| Topics: news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gaggin'
China's economic boom leading to dreadful air quality |
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31 Oct 2005 |
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| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gaggin' China's economic boom leading to dreadful air quality China's zooming economy is a wonder of the modern world, but the eco-toll is becoming increasingly severe. Acid rain affects about a third of the country, approximately 70 percent of its lakes and rivers are polluted, and more than 400,000 Chinese a year are estimated to die prematurely due to extreme air pollution. And th ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Boy Vey!
Air pollution may cut number of boy births |
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24 Oct 2005 |
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| Boy Vey! Air pollution may cut number of boy births Looking to score, fellas? The secret may be moving to a highly polluted area. Turns out air pollution may skew the ratio of female to male births in favor of the former, by altering the proportion of sperm that carry an X vs. a Y chromosome. A team of Brazilian researchers divided Sao Paulo -- Brazil's largest city, with a population of 17 million -- ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, population (all these topics) |
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We Mar the World
World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions |
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06 Oct 2005 |
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| We Mar the World World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions The World Bank is not the first institution that comes to mind when you're looking for hard-hitting environmental analysis. But a new report from the powerful development agency asserts that while alcohol, tobacco, and unsafe sex are still the most common threats to human health in developing nations, millions of deaths and a full ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, pollution and waste, World Bank (all these topics) |
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We'll Always Have Parish
Louisiana faces massive trash and toxics cleanups |
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04 Oct 2005 |
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| We'll Always Have Parish Louisiana faces massive trash and toxics cleanups New Orleans' ecological recovery is likely to be both complex and lengthy. State environmental officials say Hurricane Katrina left around 22 million tons of debris in southeast Louisiana, 12 million of it in Orleans Parish. The ginormous load of trash ranges from organics like downed trees and rotting food to about 6 ... |
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| Topics: land degradation, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Let No Good Seed Go Unpunished
Exposure to heavily polluted air can damage sperm DNA |
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28 Sep 2005 |
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| Let No Good Seed Go Unpunished Exposure to heavily polluted air can damage sperm DNA Turns out air pollution can make a man into a eunuch. Research published this month in the journal Human Reproduction found that the sperm quality of 35 men in Teplice, Czech Republic, diminished significantly in the winter when more fossil fuels were burned and the area's air pollution reached or exce ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Czech Republic, news, pollution and waste, population (all these topics) |
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Giving Us the Business
World's biggest firms give lip service to cutting CO2 but lag on results |
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15 Sep 2005 |
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| Giving Us the Business World's biggest firms give lip service to cutting CO2 but lag on results More than 70 percent of the world's 500 largest companies by market capitalization volunteered information on how climate change is affecting their businesses for a survey this year, but the info they released is not exactly heartening. According to a new report by the Carbon Disclosure Project, a London-based initi ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Touch and Goshute
Feds approve nuclear-waste dump on Utah tribe's land |
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12 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Touch and Goshute Feds approve nuclear-waste dump on Utah tribe's land On Friday, the Bush administration approved a controversial $3.1 billion plan for a massive temporary radioactive-waste dump on a Utah Indian reservation -- a win for nuclear-power interests. A private firm and the sovereign Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians struck up the agreement for the repository, so the plan has ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, news, politics, pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics) |
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Bourbon Decay
Officials try to get grip on post-Katrina environmental problems |
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06 Sep 2005 |
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| Bourbon Decay Officials try to get grip on post-Katrina environmental problems Multiple environmental crises loom in Hurricane Katrina's wake. New Orleans floodwaters are diluting sewage, chemical, and fuel contaminants right now, but these substances are likely to concentrate and deposit as the waters drain. Some parts of the city may become de facto brownfields, so soaked in toxic crud that they'll be unfit for rebui ... |
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| Topics: Louisiana, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Freedom to Pollute Is on the March
New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more |
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31 Aug 2005 |
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| Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more The Bush administration may finally eviscerate the legal basis for many pesky air-pollution lawsuits against coal-fired power plants. A new proposal being drafted by the U.S. EPA would change the system for monitoring plants' emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide: after a plant modernized its equipment, ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Light, Fruity, With a Hint of Smog
Winemakers in San Joaquin Valley will soon have to curb emissions |
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22 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Light, Fruity, With a Hint of Smog Winemakers in San Joaquin Valley will soon have to curb emissions The 109 wineries in California's San Joaquin Valley -- home to the worst smog in the U.S. -- emit 788 tons of ethanol and other smog-forming gases a year, according to regulators. Plans are in the works to implement new air-quality rules by the end of 2005 that would mandate emissions controls on wine-f ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Diary of a Mad Black River
Millions of gallons of liquid cow manure flow into N.Y. river |
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16 Aug 2005 |
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| Diary of a Mad Black River Millions of gallons of liquid cow manure flow into N.Y. river At some point last week -- nobody's quite sure when -- one wall of an earthen reservoir on one of New York state's biggest dairy farms collapsed, releasing some 3 million gallons of liquid cow manure into the Black River. "That stinks," noted observant 15-year-old New Yorker Dustan Wisner. But the s ... |
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| Topics: New York, news, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics) |
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Lakes and Pains
Great Lakes beset by myriad threats |
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15 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Lakes and Pains Great Lakes beset by myriad threats This weekend, The Detroit News published a massive series on the latest threats facing the Great Lakes -- and we mean massive: close to 30 articles. The lakes, which hold a fifth of the world's freshwater, were once emblematic of America's environmental malaise, choked with algae and pollutants. While water quality has improved, a panoply of new threats now confront ... |
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One Meeellion Years
Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump |
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10 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| One Meeellion Years Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump The U.S. government has no plan for getting out of Iraq, balancing the budget, or repairing a hemorrhaging health-care system, but nuclear waste? It's got that covered for the next million years. Yes, responding to a 2004 federal court ruling that the previous standard of 10 millennia was insufficient, the U.S. EP ... |
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| Topics: environmental planning, Nevada, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Heifer Madness
Thanks to booming dairy biz, cows out-pollute cars in California valley |
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02 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Heifer Madness Thanks to booming dairy biz, cows out-pollute cars in California valley In California's San Joaquin Valley, air-quality regulators are squaring off against the area's lucrative dairy industry over cow gas: Each dairy cow in the valley emits nearly 20 pounds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) a year, according to official estimates. (Sadly, more of the gas comes from burps than f ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Mad in China
Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed |
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19 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Mad in China Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed Thousands of Chinese protestors battled police for hours on Sunday night in an effort to stop a polluting plant from resuming operations. Villagers in Xinchang, China, 180 miles south of Shanghai, say corrupt local officials have refused to do anything about chemical wastes from the Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co. that have ruined crops, ... |
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Green Chiles
As quality of life improves, Chileans get eco-active |
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12 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Green Chiles As quality of life improves, Chileans get eco-active Last Saturday, thousands of Chileans marched in 14 cities to celebrate two environmental victories. Green activists helped to shut down the Valdivia wood-pulp facility (owned by the country's biggest industrial firm, Copec) after pollution from the plant killed hundreds of black-necked swans in a nearby wetland; the plant own ... |
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| Topics: Chile, mining and drilling, news, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Is This What Rumsfeld Meant by 'Messy'?
Air pollution poses yet another crisis for Iraq |
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11 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Is This What Rumsfeld Meant by "Messy"? Air pollution poses yet another crisis for Iraq As if Iraq didn't have enough troubles, air pollution has hit alarming levels in the nation, exacerbating respiratory ailments among its citizens. War damage to the power grid has made state-produced electricity unpredictable, and reconstruction promises by the occu- uh, liberating forces have not panned out. St ... |
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Beyond Blunderdome
Secret plan would put U.K. nuke waste in 'interim' domes for 1,000 years |
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14 Jun 2005 |
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| Beyond Blunderdome Secret plan would put U.K. nuke waste in "interim" domes for 1,000 years The U.K.'s government-owned British Nuclear Fuels has developed an innovative solution to the nuclear-waste problem: procrastinate! The company wants to dump waste from nuclear power plants into giant domes designed to last up to 1,000 years -- at which point, presumably, f ... |
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| Topics: environmental planning, news, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Bond Ambition
Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again |
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10 Jun 2005 |
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| Bond Ambition Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again Small engines have a big impact -- when you use a standard gas-powered lawn mower for an hour, you've spewed as much pollution as 50 cars driving 20 miles each. Nevertheless, someone builds those small engines, and that means jobs -- specifically, jobs in Missouri, or more specifically yet, jobs at engine manufacturer Briggs & ... |
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| Topics: Missouri, news, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse
NYC considers tough e-waste bill |
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26 May 2005 |
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| An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill One of the toughest electronic-waste bills in the U.S. was introduced in the New York City Council yesterday. It would require producers of electronic equipment like computers and televisions to collect and recycle those devices -- that is, if they want to maintain selling rights within the city. City officials like council me ... |
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| Topics: green living, New York, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Situation Normal All Canucked Up
Air pollution on the rise in Canada |
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25 May 2005 |
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| Situation Normal All Canucked Up Air pollution on the rise in Canada Canada's self-image as North America's most enlightened steward of the environment has taken a blow with the release of a new report from the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Studying the period from 1998 to 2002, the report concludes that air pollution rose by 8 percent in the Great White North even as it fell by 21 percent in th ... |
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| Topics: Canada, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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