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Credit: oquendo via Flickr.Nothing against New Jersey, but it's not the first place that comes to mind when you think of clean air in the United States. Maybe that's just not fair to the Garden State. In a 2009 "Best Places to Live" list of small towns from Money magazine, Jersey has nine cities in the Top Ten when it comes (Read More)
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YERINGTON, Nev. -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ominous sign on a neighbori (Read More)
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Source: EPAAbout TimeIt's been almost 40 years since the EPA's SO2 standards were strengthened. Sounds like a tightening was overdue... Until now. The EPA is look at a proposal to establish a new national one-hour SO2 standard, between 50 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). "The existing primary standards were 140 ppb measured (Read More)
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I was the second witness yesterday morning as the EPA opened its hearing process on Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse pollutants. The first was from the American Petroleum Institute (API). He made one point over and over: the EPA shouldn't use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide and other climate pollutants; i (Read More)
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MARIETTA, Pa. — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five year (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician r (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Eric BrennanUsing the right materials in your home can help preserve the environment and save you money in the long run.Whether you're building a new home from the ground up, or remodeling an existing structure, using energy-efficient building materials can save you hundreds, even thousands of do (Read More)
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KINGSTON, Tenn. — Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a massive ash spill."It is a tradeoff. In order to clean the air up, you create a landfill," the Te (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Ester NovemberIf you want to clean green but don't trust plain baking soda to do all the heavy lifting, here are some simple recipes for homemade green cleaning products that work.Many folks have jumped on the homemade green cleaning product wagon, only to discover that nothing cleans a bathtub l (Read More)
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A factory nearing completion in Brooklyn has raised protests over its potential effect on the neighborhood’s air quality and changing image.
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From Associated Content, by Amy Whittle:There are many improvements that can be made to the typical residence to increase its energy efficiency. Although LEED certification may be the ultimate goal for many environmentalists, there are many DIY green home improvement projects that can significantly lessen the energy and res (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Ilene Springer:If grown properly, your organic garden will produce higher quality, healthier foods '" and will be good for the environment and wildlife.Many people have high hopes for starting their own organic garden and reaping a small harvest from it. The problem is that many don't really know (Read More)
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With the average American spending almost two hours a day in a car, according to the Ecology Center, there is ample opportunity for exposure to toxic chemicals.
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Forbes has put out a list evaluating the toxicity of the 40 largest US metropolitan areas. The results may surprise you. Atlanta topped the list for most toxic city, while Las Vegas earned the distinction of being the least toxic. The New York metropolitan area, which is the most populous in the country, also found a spot (Read More)
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Should Shipping on the Yangtze be Made Safer and Cleaner?Even when everything's going according to plan, cargo ships can be major sources of air pollution (see "Just 15 of the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars"), but when things go wrong and they're carrying dangerous chemical (Read More)
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