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AFPM Responds To EPA Proposal To Update The Toxic Air Pollution Standards For U.S. Refineries
2014-05-19 09:11:26| pollutiononline Home Page
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President Charles T. Drevna responds to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to update the toxic air pollution standards for petroleum refineries.
EPA Loopholes Allow Biomass to Emit More Toxic Air Pollutants Than Coal, Study Says
2014-04-09 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: A new study charges that government regulations for biomass plants are riddled with loopholes that allow wood-burning facilities to spew more toxic emissions in the air than coal-fired power plants. The findings are refueling a controversy over whether biomass should be treated by regulators as a renewable energy fuel and able to qualify for green incentives, or be treated as a fossil fuel like coal. The study, conducted by the Massachusetts-based Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), found that...
Fracking boom spews toxic air emissions on Texas residents
2014-02-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor's office in San Antonio she makes sure her inhaler is on the seat beside her, then steers her red GMC pickup truck southeast on U.S. 181, toward her home on the South Texas prairie. About 40 miles down the road, between Poth and Falls City, drilling rigs, crude oil storage tanks and flares trailing black smoke appear amid the mesquite, live oak and pecan trees. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, a yellow-brown haze might stretch across the horizon,...
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Texas Officials Turn Blind Eye To Fracking Industry's Toxic Air Emissions
2014-02-18 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In January 2011, with air quality worsening in Texas' booming oil and gas fields, state environmental regulators adopted rules to reduce emissions. The industry rebelled. So did the state legislature. A few months later, lawmakers passed SB1134, effectively preventing the new regulations from being applied in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, one of the nation's biggest oil and gas booms. Since then, more than 2,400 air emissions permits have been issued in the Eagle Ford without additional...
Toxic compound air emissions from Anheuser-Busch brewery show steady decline
2014-01-29 03:15:59| Beverages - Topix.net
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory shows that ammonia releases at the Anheuser-Busch brewery decreased in 2012 to 20,657 pounds.
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