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Eastern States Press Midwest to Improve Air In a battle that pits the East Coast against the Midwest over the winds that carry dirty air from coal plants, the governors of eight Northeastern states plan to petition the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to force tighter air pollution regulations on nine Rust Belt and Appalachian states. Read More |
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The Toxic Smog Cloud Hanging Over Shanghai Looks Just As Bad As It Sounds Shanghai is notorious for its terrible air quality, but the smog in this Chinese metropolis just hit absurd levels. Read More |
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Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming. Read More |
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Oil Company Caught Illegally Dumping Fracking Discharge In Central Valley For the first time, California has penalized an oil company over illegal fracking activity after the discovery of a video showing wrongful dumping of the fracking discharge. Read More |
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Climate Change's Biggest Threats Are Those We Aren't Ready For: Report Climatic changes -- and the results of those changes -- could occur within decades or even sooner, and they are becoming a greater concern for scientists, according to a new paper from the National Academy of Sciences. Read More |
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Urban Schools Aim for Environmental Revolution Nothing seemed special about the plates from which students at a handful of Miami schools devoured their meals for a few weeks last spring — round, rigid and colorless, with four compartments for food and a fifth in the center for a carton of milk. Read More |
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Short on Space, Taiwan Embraces a Boom in Recycling Twenty-five miles west of here on Taiwan’s rugged northwest coast, a cavernous warehouse under construction represents the new priorities for an island where the streets were once littered with piles of discarded electronics and other refuse. Read More |
