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Carbon emission limits set for Washington polluters

2016-06-02 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Media Juss: In this February 25, 2016 photo, a truck carries a load at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. Washington state is releasing its second take of a proposed rule to require the state's largest polluters to reduce their carbon pollution in an effort to tackle climate change. On Wednesday, the Washington State Department of Ecology released an updated draft of the Clean Air Rule, a reintroduced plan to make the state's biggest polluters cut their greenhouse gas emissions that was retracted earlier this...

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Washington to force states biggest carbon polluters to cut emissions

2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Seattle Times: With some concessions to business concerns, Gov. Jay Inslees administration is pushing ahead with a plan to force greenhouse-gas cuts by some 70 of the states biggest industrial emitters. The state Department of Ecology on Wednesday rolled out a new Clean Air Rule, replacing a draft withdrawn by the agency in February after criticism from industry and environmentalists. Like the earlier proposal, the rule would require dozens of affected industries -- ranging from Anacortes oil refineries...

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Polluters have to pay full cost of emissions after bill passes final hurdle

2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Stuff: Polluters won't be getting a half-price deal on the cost of their greenhouse gas emissions any longer. A bill to get rid of the two-for-one measure in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has passed its third and final reading in Parliament on Friday. The measure allowed companies across fossil fuel, industrial, energy and waste sectors to surrender one New Zealand Unit for every two tonnes of carbon emitted, halving their costs. It was brought in during the global financial crisis in 2009 to help...

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5 percent of polluters create 90 percent of toxic emissions. Guess where theyre located?

2016-01-28 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: With the way the Flint water crisis is unfolding, the reality of environmental racism is front and center in the news. As Aura Bogado explained so well earlier this week, environmental justice is closely tied to segregation and inequality. It seems like every month theres a new study telling us that pollution is higher in black and low-income communities. Well, January did not disappoint. A new study published in Environmental Research Letters looks into the connections between pollution, race,...

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