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Marathon Petroleum to invest $334.6m to cut air pollution at US refineries
2016-06-10 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Marathon Petroleum has signed an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice to reduce air pollution from the company's petroleum refineries.
Air pollution now major contributor to stroke, global study finds
2016-06-10 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution has become a major contributor to stroke for the first time, with unclean air now blamed for nearly one third of the years of healthy life lost to the condition worldwide. In an unprecedented survey of global risk factors for stroke, air pollution in the form of fine particulate matter ranked seventh in terms of its impact on healthy lifespan, while household air pollution from burning solid fuels ranked eighth. Valery Feigin, director of the National Institute for Stroke and...
Urgent action needed to stop terrifying rise in air pollution, warns OECD
2016-06-09 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution is becoming a terrifying problem around the globe, one of the worlds leading economic organisations has warned, and will get much worse in the coming decades if urgent steps are not taken to control the pollution. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday that pollution of our air from industry, agriculture and transport was set to cause as many as 9 million premature deaths a year around the world in the next four decades, and the economic...
OECD warns of rising premature deaths, costs of air pollution
2016-06-09 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths and represent an economic cost of around $2.6 trillion a year by 2060 unless action is taken, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a report released on Thursday. The OECD examined the economic consequences of air pollution and found that it could cost 1 percent of gross domestic product - or $2.6 trillion a year - by 2060. The economic cost would rise with a surge in related annual healthcare...
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Marathon Petroleum, U.S. reach agreement on refinery pollution
2016-06-09 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum Corp will spend about $334.6 million on pollution abatement at refineries in five states and pay a $326,500 civil penalty, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday. The agencies said Ohio-based subsidiary Marathon Petroleum Co will spend $319 million to install state-of-the-art Flare Gas Recovery Systems and $15.55 million on projects to reduce air pollution at three facilities. They said the settlement was filed Thursday...
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