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EPA Launches New Voluntary Program to Help Reduce Harmful Soot Pollution

2013-01-17 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

PM Advance, voluntary clean air program, helps communities continue to meet soot pollution standards, improve air quality, and protect public health. Focusing on working with communities to develop strategies for reducing harmful fine particle emissions, PM Advance requires participants to commit to taking such specific steps as putting school bus retrofit program or air quality action day program in place; EPA supplies technical advice, outreach information, and other support. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:

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EPA Enforcement In 2012 Protects Communities From Harmful Pollution

2013-01-10 05:04:05| pollutiononline Home Page

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its fiscal year (FY) 2012 enforcement results. The results highlight EPA’s civil and criminal enforcement efforts to address pollution problems that have the greatest impact on communities and public health, including a reduction of 1.7 billion pounds of pollution to the nation’s air, water and land, 191,645 pounds of hazardous waste, and $34,876,733M in civil/judicial and criminal penalties to deter violations of the law.

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Harmful algae blooms increase as water warms in the world's major lakes

2013-01-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: The warming waters of one of central Europe's most popular holiday destinations, Switzerland's Lake Zurich, have created an ideal environment for a population explosion of algae including Planktothrix rubescens, a toxic cyanobacterium. It has the potential to harm humans, animals and the tourism that pumps up the economies of lake districts. Although harmful algal blooms have been documented for more than a century, recently the number and frequency of cases have drastically increased. According...

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