Tag: Air Pollution - Page 8
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Latinos Speak Out Against GOP Assault on EPA, Clean Air Act
In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants -- after all, as a group largely
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Assaf Biderman on Creating SENSEable Cities (Podcast)
Assaf Biderman and his team at MIT's SENSEable City Lab are pushing the boundaries of how we organize and visualize the metropolis. They've embedded GPS sensors into household trash and tracked it through the waste stream, conceived aquatic robots that
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EPA Unveils First Nationwide Rules to Limit Toxic Air Pollution from Power Plants
There's a lot of noise on the environmental front right now -- besides the nuclear crisis in Japan, there's an attack on climate science led by US politicians and widespread conflict in the Middle East driving up the price
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GOP Moves to Slash 29% of EPA's Funding
I know, I know -- I already penned a post with a very similar headline last week. The GOP wants to gut the Environmental Protection Agency, stripping out a huge chunk of its funding. So what's the news? Well, that chunk
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2,000 Health Pros & 2,500 Scientists Ask Congress to Enforce New Clean Air Act Standards
The EPA has been put through hell this week -- first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air
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Enforcing Clean Air Act Rules Will Create 1.5 Million Jobs, Study Says
Who wants clean air? How about 1.5 million jobs? I know someone who does ... America! Well, this fine nation of ours is in luck. According to a new study, enforcing the new Clean Air Act requirements would create a jobs
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Cancer Alley: Big Industry & Bigger Illness Along Mississippi River
There's a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge
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Madrid's Mayor Fiddles Air Pollution Results
The Mayor of Madrid is very proud of the reductions in air pollution achieved during his term of office. "We have better air quality in Madrid than ever before", he boasted this year.
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New York City About to Get New Regulations for Cleaner Heating Oil
This Should be Done Everywhere According to a piece in the NYT's Green blog, new regulations for heating oil in NYC were proposed today and could phase out the dirtiest types of heating oil used by about 10,000 buildings in New York: "No. 6, the
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Should Coal Ash Be Getting LEED Credits?
Coal ash never ceases to amaze: despite being radioactive and loaded with mercury, not only does the EPA claim it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, its use in construction is also a source of LEED credits in green building. Public
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L.A. Metro Retires Last Diesel Bus, Now Relies on Cleaner CNG Buses
Reducing Air Pollution The last diesel bus in the 2,228 vehicle fleet of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) was recently retired, making Metro the first major transit agency in the world to
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EPA to Ambulances: Lay Off the...Pesticides?
The EPA has ordered a hospital services company in New Jersey to stop applying disinfectants in ambulances using a fogging system because the process "is not an approved use for any of the EPA-registered pesticides used by [the
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Southwest Airlines Announces More Energy-Efficient Landings
Southwest Airlines is changing its landing procedures in the hopes of reducing emissions, delays, and of course, costs. The move is driven in part by changes mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration that
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Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution
Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra
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Urban Light Pollution Boosts Air Pollution
Living in Manhattan, where on a good night you only see a couple stars in the sky and it's never truly dark due to light pollution, this one particularly hits home for me: BBC News reports that a new
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Airplanes = Largest Source of Lead Air Emissions
Get on a small plane, and carbon emissions aren't the only environmental problem to think about. Aviation fuel is the largest source of lead emissions, and Friends of the Earth is calling on the EPA to get it under
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Pollution Making 'Male Birds Mate With Each Other': Scientists
Pollution has long been known to bear various impacts on animals' reproductive behavior. But rarely is the effect so pronounced as what scientists have observed happening to bird populations that
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1/3 of Lead Air Pollution Found in San Francisco Originated in Asia
Regulating pollution is a notoriously difficult enterprise, and that's largely because particulates or emissions spewed in one place may end up impacting folks thousands of miles away. In a new study,
