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EPA to Congress: Toxic Air Pollution Has Dropped Dramatically
2014-08-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency has made substantial progress in reducing toxic air pollution since 1990, reducing many pollutants by more than half, regulators told Congress Thursday. On a national basis, reductions include a 66 percent drop in benzene, a nearly 60 percent reduction in mercury from man-made sources and an 84 percent drop in lead. The Thursday report is the second and final update required under the 1990 updates to the Clean Air Act, which mandated that the EPA work to...
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Trains carrying toxic chemicals collide in US, 2 dead
2014-08-18 02:02:03| Railroads - Topix.net
Two freight trains transporting toxic chemicals smashed into each other in the US state of Arkansas early Sunday , killing two people and injuring two others, police said.
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Apple Lays Down Law on Toxic Chemical Use
2014-08-15 00:09:29| TechNewsWorld
Apple on Thursday reiterated its commitment to safe working conditions in its supply chain, and announced stricter rules for the use of benzene and n-hexane, two toxic chemicals. It also published its Regulated Substances Specification, pointing out that it sets occupational exposure limits for the two toxic chemicals that follow standards bodies' recommendations.
Toxic Toledo Algae Bloom Seen from Space
2014-08-11 13:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: An algae bloom in Lake Erie that left hundreds of thousands of people in Toledo, Ohio, and its surroundings without water for two days is visible in new satellite imagery. The bloom appears as a cloudy green mass in the blue of Lake Erie. Toledo is in the lower left of the image, along the lake's shore. The mayor of the city lifted a ban on drinking Toledo's water on Monday (Aug. 4), after two days in which residents were warned that water from the Collins Park water treatment plant was contaminated...
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Global Warming Will Make Toxic Algae Blooms Worse
2014-08-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Columbus Dispatch: Scientists say climate change is exacerbating toxic-algae problems in Lake Erie and across the country. They say more-intense storms are dumping heavy rains onto farm fields, causing more fertilizer runoff than in the past, and that lake-water temperatures are rising, making a perfect home for the toxic blue-green algae that plague Lake Erie every summer and caused Toledos recent drinking-water woes. When you have a gentle rain, where you get maybe an inch ... over a 24-hour period, you dont...
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