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BP Has a Deal it Hopes we Can't Refuse: Benzene Releases and Refinery Expansion Plans

Henry Henderson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Benzene, Bp, Lake Michigan, Bp Dirty Fuel, British Petroleum, Air Pollution, Pollution, Energy, Bp Whiting Refinery, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

BP seems to be proposing that to fix the current health-threatening pollution, they need to increase their refinery operations to refine even dirtier petroleum. Does that make any sense?

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Breast Cancer Risk and the Dirty Air We Breathe

Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: California Air Pollution, Breast Cancer, Diesel, Air Pollution, Smog, Breast Cancer Gene, Health, Pahs, Green News
Frances Beinecke

There are also over 200 chemicals in air pollution -- called PAHs -- that may also lead to cancer, including cancer of the breast.

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US Supports Reducing Pollution, But Takes It Slowly

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Micronesia, Obama Environment, Climate Change, Environment, Air Pollution, Cfcs, Pollution, Hfcs, Global Warming, Green News

UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threa...

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America's Most Polluted Cities: Try Breathing This!

forbes.com | Brian Wingfield and Joann Muller | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Most Polluted Cities, Pollution, Polluted Cities, Air Pollution, Business News

This time of year, many Americans are concerned with sunburns. In some areas, they should pay more attention to smog. The reason? Though it's often i...

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It's Not Just AIG, Friends

Paula Gordon | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Microparticulates, Southern Company, Bad Air, Sonny Perdue, Asthma, Toxicity, Johnny Isakson, Crony Capitalists, Saxby Chambliss, Heart Disease, Pollution, Air Pollution, Georgia Power, Green News
Paula Gordon

I don't think being outdoors should be life-threatening. Southern Company, a power company behemoth providing some 5% of the United States' electricity, acts on a very different premise.

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Global Dimming: Pollution Dims Skies, Could Threaten Solar Energy

AP | Posted 04.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Dimming, Light Pollution, Air Pollution, Pollution, Solar Power, Green Technology, Green News

WASHINGTON — The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the p...

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Study: Air Pollution Shortens US Life Span

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Smog, Pollution, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the United States, according to a...

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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Nature Has a Way with Black Swans

Harry Fuller | Posted 02.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Environment, Depression, Climate Change, Solar Energy Projects, Environment, Tva, Air Pollution, Pollution, Stimulus, Global Warming, Economy, Green News
Harry Fuller

How the money's spent matters not just because the "stimulus" might work or fail... It matters because we're despoiling the planet at an ever greater rate and we don't have a replacement.

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Is Your Child Being Poisoned At School?

Sloan Barnett | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Air Pollution, Children, Toxic Schools, Green News
Sloan Barnett

We should all be asking our educators an important question: where are the concerns for indoor air pollution, which schools can actually control?

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Not Home Yet: The Terrible Carnage of Bush's Final Days

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, White House, Water Pollution, Doj, Environment, Endangered Species, Hhs, Air Pollution, Endangered Species Act, Bush, Epa, Obama Administration, Bush Environmental Policy, Clean Air Act, Bush Final Weeks, National Parks, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

As if eight long years of hell under Bush were not enough, we now have to suffer this accelerated push to destroy our future in the last days of his reign of terror.

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Midnight Regs: Pollution in National Parks And More!

ProPublica | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Hud, Midnight Regulations, Fda, Air Pollution, National Parks, Epa, Politics News
ProPublica

Today's additions to our Midnight Regulations chart include rules that affect our national parks, the approval and labeling of genetically-modified food, and public access to information.

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What Dangerous Particles Did LA Residents Breathe During The Fires?

LA Times | Bettina Boxall | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green

Read More: California Air Quality, Southern California Fires, California Fires, Green News, Smoke Particles, Pollution, Air Pollution, Los Angeles, California Air Pollution, Wild Fires, California, Green News

The Los Angeles times reports on some Californians' worst fears -- that the wildfires put something bad in the air: It was full of tiny particles -- ...

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Health Effects of Pollution Cost California Economy $28 Billion Each Year

LA Times | Louis Sahagun | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: California Air Quality, Economy, Public Health, Coalition for Clean Air, Los Angeles County, Diesel, Pollution, California, Health, California Air Resources Board, Green News, Environment, California Economy, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Air Pollution, Federal Air Quality Standards, Green News

The California economy loses about $28 billion annually due to premature deaths and illnesses linked to ozone and particulates spewed from hundreds of...

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California Air Pollution Kills More People Than Car Crashes, Study Shows

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, California Air Pollution, Auto, California, Air Pollution, Green News

FRESNO, Calif. — Lowering air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor v...

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Life Cycle: Burn, Baby, Burn (The Eco Impact of Candles)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead, Honey, Wax, Mango, Green, Emissions, DéCor, Wick, Soy, Green Living, Carbon, Life Cycle, Fossil Fuels, Fragrance, Beeswax, New Scientist Magazine, Burn, Sarah Smarsh, Wine, Air Pollution, Paraffin, Tea, Shoulder Rub, Pier 1, Petroleum, Crude Oil, French Vanilla, Hanukkah, Romance, Sex, Environment, Candles, Toxicity, Simran Sethi, Fragrance-Free, Green News
Simran Sethi

Most candles are made from paraffin wax, which is derived from crude oil. Demand for these products plays into our reliance on fossil fuels.

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Day Two: The Pollution Inside Your Own Body

Sloan Barnett | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Air Pollution, Pollution, Indoor Air Pollution, Health, Green News
Sloan Barnett

Most of us think air pollution is an outdoor problem. Smokestacks, cars, smog. But indoors--where we spend 90% of our day--that's where the air can be really bad.

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Challenging the Naysayers: Global Warming Solutions Make Sense

Howard Learner | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Climate Change Program, Chicago, Environment, Cfl, Lighting, Clean Energy, Plug-in Hybrids, Pollution, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Green News
Howard Learner

Naysayers keep arguing that reducing global warming pollution is too expensive, too hard, will cost too much money and will irreparably harm our economy. We've heard this refrain before.

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US Olympic Cyclists Fly Into China Wearing Face Masks

Reuters | Doug Hamilton | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Beijing, China Air Quality, China Pollution, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Environment, Air Pollution, Cycling, Green News

BEIJING - Some members of the U.S. cycling squad arrived for the Olympic Games on Tuesday wearing black respiratory masks, apparently concerned over r...

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Beijing's Air Is Fine, Outside Of Pollution, Pollen, Heat And Humidity

New York Times | Gina Kolata | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Sports, Olympics, Beijing, Olympic Athletes Pollution, Beijing Air, China, Beijing Olympics, Pollution, Air Pollution, China Pollution, 2008 Olympics, Green News

And it is hard to dismiss the cautionary tales. Tom Fleming, who won the New York Marathon in 1973 and 1975, is an experienced runner and coach. He wa...

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$17B, 1 Million Cars Lighter, China Still Mired In Smog

Wall Street Journal | Shai Oster | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: China Smog, China Air Quality, Beijing Smog, Beijing Olympics, Air Pollution, Pollution, China, China Pollution, Olympics, Green News

BEIJING -- China has gone to Olympian lengths to try to ensure that its skies are clear for the Summer Games, which formally kick off in 10 days. It h...

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Pollution In China: Is China's Industry Poisoning Its Children

Scientific America | Dan Fagin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Air Pollution in China, Environmental Pollution, China Pollution, Water Pollution, Beijing Pollution, Air Pollution, Pollution, Pollution in China, Green News

ILL WIND: A young boy wears a mask against pollution in Linfen, China. Preliminary results from a study conducted in Tongliang, China, reveal that ch...

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Environmental Racism Takes Hold In California

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, Los Angeles, Oil Refining, Racial Politics, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental, Environmental Racism, Los Angeles Pollution, Environment, Asthma, Racism, Air Pollution, Green News
Olivia Zaleski

Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...

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A Month Before Games, Beijing's Air Worst in China

Sinobyte | Graham Webster | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, China Pollution, Beijing Pollution, Air Pollution, Pollution, China, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Green News

Despite advertised measures to decrease pollution, as we approach the one month countdown to the Beijing Olympics, the government's numbers rank Beiji...

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High-Emission Vehicles Banned from Beijing Roads

China Daily | Zhang Haizhou | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: High-Emission Vehicles, China Emissions, Beijing Olympics, China Pollution, Beijing, Pollution, Air Pollution, China, Olympics, Green News

High-emission or yellow-labeled vehicles will be banned from Beijing roads from July to September to ensure green Olympics and Paralympics as promised...

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