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White House Attacks Heat-Trapping Methane, Second Biggest Climate Pollutant
2014-04-03 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: The White House recently released its long-awaited Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions. Promised in President Obama's Climate Action Plan last June, the methane strategy is a big step in the right direction. Methane (CH4) is a powerful heat-trapping pollutant, much more potent pound for pound than carbon dioxide, and is the second most important climate pollutant overall. Curbing the big sources of methane is essential to meeting the Presidents climate protection target of reducing U.S. heat-trapping...
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Snow's a pollutant, potentially, so no random dumping allowed, Michigan DEQ reminds
2014-01-30 14:17:23| Waste Management - Topix.net
But the mountains of snow cleared from streets and parking lots can include de-icing agents such as salt and sand, automobile exhaust and litter, heavy metals, asbestos, petroleum products, nutrients, organic debris such as leaves and grass, bacteria, and pesticides.
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01.29.14 -- Electric Drive Vehicles Have Little Impact On U.S. Pollutant Emissions
2014-01-28 05:28:38| pollutiononline Home Page
01/29/14 Pollution Online Newsletter
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Electric Drive Vehicles Have Little Impact On US Pollutant Emissions
2014-01-27 04:55:13| pollutiononline Home Page
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides
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'Ecological concerns' from pollutant levels in Lake Conway-area soil samples
2013-10-09 23:02:20| Waste Management - Topix.net
State agencies say preliminary reviews of soil and sediment samples in and around Lake Conway and the oil-fouled Northwoods subdivision in Mayflower show levels of hydrocarbons and metals below those necessary to constitute a public health hazard.
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