positive Air Quality news
Missouri Ethanol Firm Signs $2 Million Clean Air SettlementThe Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the state of Missouri today announced a $ 2 million civil settlement with the Golden Triangle Energy, LLC, ethanol plant in Craig, Missouri for alleged Clean Air Act violations. |
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Duke Energy CEO proposes carbon taxDuke Energy Corp. will lobby for a tax on carbon dioxide emissions that would reduce fossil fuel consumption and begin addressing the global warming problem, the company's chairman and chief executive said Thursday. |
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Houston To Replace Some Of Fleet With Hybrid VehiclesHouston Mayor Bill White Friday announced the city will replace many of its vehicles with fuel-efficient hybrids in 2010. |
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EPA Says 21 Counties in Nine States Now Meet New Air-Quality StandardsThe Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that 21 counties in nine states are being removed from the government's watch list of areas in the country with the dirtiest air. |
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Automakers go green in Canada, curbing emissionsCanada and major automakers signed a pact Tuesday that is expected to lead to more fuel-efficient cars and trucks as part of the country's effort to combat emissions linked to global warming. |
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Alabama Power’s Clean Air IntitiativeAlabama Power announces plans to reduce emissions at Plant Barry. |
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Nine States Sue EPA Seeking Tougher Mercury RuleAttorneys General from nine states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that they allege fails to protect the public from harmful mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, which they say pose a grave threat to the health of children. |
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Unlikely Bedfellows Lobby against US Gas-GuzzlersA group of former national security officials Monday took up the cause of weaning U.S. drivers from their oil addiction -- normally the realm of environmental groups -- and asked the Bush administration to spend $1 billion on lighter, more fuel-efficient automobiles. |
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Sumitomo Chemical to Invest $2.5 mil. in BioCarbon FundSumitomo Chemical Co. said Wednesday it will invest $2.5 million in the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund by 2017 to obtain some 400,000 carbon credits, which count as greenhouse gas emission cuts. |
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Ohio Edison Signs Billion Dollar Clean Air SettlementOhio Edison will spend over a billion dollars to cut air pollution from a coal-fired power plant by 212,500 tons per year, under an agreement filed today to settle a federal-state lawsuit. |
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Purdue Engineers’ Discovery May Improve Natural Gas Combustion TechnologyA discovery made by chemical engineers at Purdue University may help improve a promising low-polluting technology that combusts natural gas more cleanly than conventional methods. |
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Smog-Busting Inventors Get Nation’s Highest Technology AwardThree scientists who helped this car-crazy world breathe a whole lot easier have been given the nation's highest technology award. |
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EPA orders smog reductions to benefit people downwind from plantsThe Bush administration on Thursday ordered reductions in smog and soot pollution across 28 states - including Minnesota - with the goal of making the air cleaner to breathe for people downwind of coal-burning power plants. |
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China starts trial calculation of green GDPChina has launched a trial calculation of its gross domestic product (GDP) that takes into account of environmental factors, as a way to check environmental deterioration and put its roaring economy on the track of sustainable development. |
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Environmental news headlines
- EU to ban pesticides in bee scare
- New law to protect Puerto Rico leatherback turtles
- China, world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbon
- New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia
- Gorillas to Be Protected with New Congo National Park
- From the brink of extinction: elephant seals stage remarkable comeback
- Nations agree on legally binding mercury rules
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- This week, a shark sanctuary the size of Australia has been established
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- Canada introduces new rules to curb future vehicle emissions
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- Australia outlaws illegally-logged wood from abroad
- Tokelau islands shift to 100% solar energy
- Another city in BC bans shark fins
- EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goal
- Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and Animals
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
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