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U.S. May Be Producing 50% More Methane Than EPA Thinks
2013-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Methane is the source of the gas we burn in stoves. You can also use it to make plastics, antifreeze or fertilizer. It comes out of underground deposits, but it also seeps up from swamps, landfills, even the stomachs of cows. And while methane is valuable, a lot of it gets up into the atmosphere, where it becomes a very damaging greenhouse gas. Scientists have been trying to find out, with varying success, exactly how much of this climate-warming gas gets into the atmosphere. A study published...
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EPA Names New Scientific Integrity Chief
2013-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday appointed Francesca Grifo as the agency's official in charge of scientific integrity. In addition to overseeing the scientific integrity program, Grifo will chair an internal committee that deals with issues of standards, transparency and scientific freedom. In 2009 President Obama issued a directive that ordered federal agencies to refocus on science and remove political pressure from science policy. Also Naturalists take a lizard safari...
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EPA Mercury Mandate Creates New $10 Billion Market
2013-11-26 18:49:35| Chemicals - Topix.net
Mercury is a serious threat to the environment and human health. Exposure to mercury can destroy the human nervous system and permanently damage the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system.
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Methane Emissions In The US Reportedly Exceed EPA Estimates
2013-11-26 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could be underestimating American methane emission levels by as much as 50 percent, according to new research appearing in this weeks early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Carnegie Institution researchers, along with colleagues from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Harvard University and other institutions, used atmospheric methane observations from throughout North American in...
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New study finds US anthropogenic methane emissions 1.5 times higher than previously estimated by EPA
2013-11-26 12:30:29| Green Car Congress
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