Air Quality

Bob Dold Keeping Close Eye on Environmental Votes, If Not the Environment

Ellen Gill | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Farm Dust, Tar Sands, Air Quality, Illinois-Tenth-District, Bob Dold, Keystone XL Pipeline, Bob Dold Environment, h.r. 910, Energy Tax Prevention Act, Farm Dust Bill, Politics News

So, Bob Dold managed to vote against the environment seven (7) times in 2011 and 2012 and voted with his party 7 out of 11 times on the environment, but going up on a bucked lift impressed the Lake County New-Sun.

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Connecting The Dots Between Extreme Weather And Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Lebanon Pollution, 350.Org, Earth Day, Global Weirding, Air Quality, Pakistan Floods, Climate Impacts Day, Connecting the Dots, Climate Impacts Day 2012, Climate Change, Santa Fe Fire, Bill Mckibben, Extreme Weather, Slidepollajax, Global Warming, Green News

Colorful photos and live video streamed in from events held in more than 100 countries on Saturday where citizens are "connecting the dots” between ...

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New Study Says Soot And Methane Reductions Will Save Lives And Slow Global Warming

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Video, Global Warming Soot, Soot Methane Reduction, Air Quality, Climate-Change, Industrial Air Pollution, Air Pollution, Air Pollution Premature Deaths, Global Warming Methane, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON — An international team of scientists says it's figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of death...

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Roasting by an Open Fire: Eco-Friendly or Health Threat?

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Tacoma, Biofuel, Air Quality, Puget Sound, Pollution, New York City, Wood Stoves, Cookstoves, Epa, Seattle, Pacific Northwest, United Nations Global Alliance, Particulate Pollution, Indoor Smoke, Fireplace, Lewa, Yule Logs, Green News

Some of our local experts see wood as a future fuel, a serious source of biomass energy. But the realities and science of air quality could cause us to question some of our long held assumptions about the wholesomeness of a fire.

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Giving Thanks for Regulations

Terry Tamminen | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Clean Air, Water, Air Quality, Air Pollution, Pollution, Clean Water Act, EPA Regulation, US Epa, Green News

I'm not against domestic natural gas development, but it can and must be done sustainably, because one thing that all environmental degradation has in common, regardless of nationality, is that it is far costlier to clean up a mess than to prevent one. In other words, regulation saves money.

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EPA Petitioned Over Air Quality In Western States

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Air Pollutants in Western States, Denver News, Epa, Epa Nonattainment Area, Air Quality, Air Pollution, Wildearth Guardians, Air Pollutants, Air Quality Standards, Denver News

DENVER -- An environmental group has petitioned the federal government to reduce air pollutants in eight western states. WildEarth Guardians says tha...

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The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days

John B. Townsend II | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Abolishing the Epa, Air Quality, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Code Red Day, Code Orange Day, Defunding the Epa, Epa, DC News

You don't have to know much about global climate change to realize our summers are hotter than ever before. Yet, there has been a significant reduction in the pollution caused by automobiles in the Washington metro region.

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Heating and Air Pollution

Marcelo Mena | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Fresno, Chile, Santiago, San Joaquin Valley, Wood Burning, Air Pollution, Pm2.5, Chimney, Air Quality, Residential Wood Burning, Wood Burning Pollution, Wood Stoves, Green News

What's the point of spending money on all clean technology, when it is clearly more cost-effective to clean up residential wood burning?

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Commentary on Comments: Wolves, Pipelines, and Dams, Oh My

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: u.s. Department of State, Nebraska, Transcanada, Air Quality, Texas, Keystone XL, U.S. Department of the Interior, South Dakota, Public Comment Period, Endangered Species Act, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Idaho, Air Toxics, Sheila Jackson Lee, Montana, Oklahoma, Wyoming, U.S. Congress, Federal Register, Keystone Species, Klamath River, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Endangered Species, Wyoming Wolf Recovery Program, Air Pollution, Greg Abbott, Environmental Protection Agency, Gray Wolf, Kansas, Green News

Everyone has something to say about something these days, on blogs, Twitter and Facebook. All fine and dandy. But there's another way to get heard: by putting your two cents on the record through what's known as the public comment period.

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White House Doubles Down On Pledge To Defend Clean Air Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: White House, Smog, Epa, Ed Whitfield, Environment, Air Quality, Obama Administration, TRAIN Act, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation that would delay the implementation of certain air quality standards by furt...

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Obama: A No-Go on Ozone

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Air-Quality Standards, Air Quality, Air Toxics, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Barack Obama, Obama Clean Air Act, Obama Epa, Obama Smog, Green News

In the wake of recent White House decisions, one has to wonder if that jobs pivot also includes a calculated pivot away from the environment?

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Post-Katrina, Mold Worries Subside But Hardly Disappear

Susan Buchanan | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Fungicides, Air Quality, Orleans Parish School Board, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mold, Mold Katrina, Katrina, Post-Katrina Mold, Green News

This article was published in The Louisiana Weekly in the Aug. 8, 2011 edition. Buildings with bathtub rings and musty smells are less prevalent than...

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Will Stricter EPA Standards Really Kill Jobs?

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Energy Lobbying, Environment Lobbying, Epa, Public Health, Environment, Air Quality, Jobs, Epa Lobbying, Pollution, Ozone, Green News

How important is clean air, really? There is a polarizing debate taking place between environmentalists and industry lobbyists over the Environment...

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Ground Level Ozone Alert In Front Range Today

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Car Emissions, Boulder News, Ground Level Ozone Alert, Denver News, Ground Level Ozone, Front Range, Air Quality, Denver Air Quality, Boulder Colorado, Denver Colorado, Colorado News, Denver News

An "Ozone Action Day Alert" that was first issued on Sunday afternoon is still in effect Monday until 4 p.m. for the Front Range, The Colorado Departm...

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Visions of a Car-Free Los Angeles: Lessons from Carmageddon

Paul Tullis | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Los Angeles, Carmageddon, Los Angeles Traffic, Traffic, Traffic Jams, Los Angeles Air Pollution, Air Quality, Air Pollution, Carpool, Los Angeles News

Carma-no-geddon presented Los Angeles with a stunning vision of what it could be (and once was, I'm told).

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UPDATE: AZ Fire 2nd Largest In State History; Smoke In CO

The Huffington Post/AP | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Arizona Air Quality, Wildfire Air Quality, Denver News, Arizona News, Colorado Wildfires, Air Quality, Arizona Wildfires, Denver Air Quality, Colorado Air Quality, Colorado News, Denver News

SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- A ferocious wildfire that has driven thousands from their homes in eastern Arizona grew to 486 square miles Tuesday and s...

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The Struggle for Change: Activism vs. Cynicism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Coal-Powered Plants, Clean Air, Toxic Air Emissions, Air Quality, Green Living, The Way We Were, Coal, Epa, Casablanca, Activated Carbon Injection, Activism, Moms Clean Air Force, Clean Water, Green News, Mercury, Environmental Defense Fund, Mercury Emissions, Envirionment, Green News

Mercury is poisoning both our air and our water -- big time. Even if you don't live right near a coal plant, the wind drifts. There's too much at stake.

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How Bad Is The Air You Breathe?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: State of the Air 2011, Fred Upton, American Lung Association, Health, State of the Air Report, Environment, Air Quality, Air Pollution, State of the Air, Janice Nolen, Clean Air Act, Green News

NEW YORK -- The American Lung Association's newest State of the Air report is a bit like getting a 53 on your math test after you got a 49 on your las...

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Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins

William Spear | Posted 06.24.2011

It's a whole new ballgame, folks. Nearly every community in the modern world is facing an invisible enemy. Constant exposures to toxic loads in our en...

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Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 05.28.2011

Despite common assumptions and practices that have permeated our psyches for some time now, the Earth, as our Native peoples have always said, cannot be owned.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations, Chesapeake Bay, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Air Quality, United States, Pollution, Mike Beard, Betty McCollum, U.S. Military, Todd Stern, John Shimkus, Religion, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Nascar, Oil, Unfccc, Coal Ash, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Offshore Energy, Ted Poe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

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Obama's Budget Axes Clean Diesel School Buses Program

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green School Bus, School Buses, Clean Diesel School Bus, Asthma, Air Quality, School Bus, Pollution, Clean Diesel Bus, Clean Diesel, School Bus Pollution, School Bus Safety, Video, Education News

This week, Obama unveiled his budget proposal, which carries with it drastic cuts for almost all sectors of American life. NPR reports 100 percent of...

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NYC Nature 101: Urban Ecology

Marielle Anzelone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exotic Species, Nyc, Impervious Cover, Air Quality, Native Plants, New York City, Sustainable, Plants, Planyc, Water Pollution, Nature, Wetlands, Urban Ecology, Development, Cities, Urban Heat Island Effect, New York News

Ecologists have begun to do their field studies closer to home. In the process, they have discovered that nature survives, and even thrives, in the city limits.

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Fighting to Improve Mother's Air Quality

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air Quality, Clean Air Act, Epa, Green News

We want Congress to reject any measure that would block or delay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing its job to protect all Americans from life-threatening air pollution.

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Ten Cities With The World's Worst Air

Daily Finance | Douglas McIntyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Santiago, New Delhi, Air Quality, Mexico City, Polluted Air, Beijing, Pollution, Climate Change, Business News

With the latest round of global climate change talks set to begin this week in Cancun, Mexico, the assembled delegates should be thankful they're not ...

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