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Scientists with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say in their latest report to Congress that the incidence of acid rain events throughout the country has been in sharp decline over the past few years. The document, while optimistic, highlights the need for even more action.
The most important efforts to cu... |
20 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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The Environemntal Protection Agency (EPA) is benefiting from a new asset in fighting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions all across the US. The agency has recently introduced its online interactive map, allowing people to track some of the major polluters in their state by simply entering their ZIP code.
The new... |
13 January 2012
02:36 GMT |
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Governments and organizations have a new reason to support strict standards seeking to curb greenhouse gas emissions generated by polluting cars.
A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres indicates that there is a strong connection between tornadoes and hailstorms and the to... |
4 January 2012
07:50 GMT |
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The plan revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), called The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) aims to protect the American families from alarming levels of arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, chromium, and cyanide.
The measures marks the beginning of hard times for major polluting power plants... |
22 December 2011
10:37 GMT |
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Major polluting companies that refuse to comply with the new regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have to take a significant amount of money out of their pockets. This appears to be the case of CalPortland, a cement plant located in in the vicinity of Mojave, whose owners will have to pay a... |
19 December 2011
06:58 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is keen on improving the lives of people living in the US, since it is highly concerned about the current situation of urban waters in this country. Through its Urban Waters program, the organization will put $1.8m (€1.3m) on the table for the development of projects meant... |
8 December 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Studies conducted using satellites confirm ground-based measurements indicating that sulfur dioxide levels across the eastern seaboard of the United States are decreasing. The fact that such investigations can be conducted from space has great implications for global SO2 monitoring.
Sulfur dioxide is a dangerous po... |
2 December 2011
02:25 GMT |
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a list of tricks and trips that will make our Christmas spirit even more eco-conscious. Its ideas mainly guide us to water preservation through easy-to-follow steps, also helping us minimize the ecological footprint of our winter shopping session.
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24 November 2011
10:17 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency decided to announce the winners of its earth-friendly contest which supported the birth and development of new and creative smartphones and web applications that combined a high level of utility with the respect for the environment and the wellbeing of 7 billion people who will ... |
11 November 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Air pollution is a global phenomenon which affects the lives of seven billion people worldwide. After the Environmental Protection Agency faced criticism in 2004, under the Bush administration, for not succeeding in adopting effective solutions to this problem, the organization elaborated a secret list which isn'... |
7 November 2011
07:12 GMT |
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Nowadays, the US coal industry burns approximately 900 million metric tons of coal every year. This entire process in responsible for spreading billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, substantially decreasing the air quality.
Since the carbon footprint reaches alarming rates, the governments scale up their eff... |
7 November 2011
02:42 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TRAIN Act, affecting EPA’s Clean Air Act. A similar story is now causing a stir among environmental groups, this time involving the agency’s rules related to cement plant emissions. The bill affects three specific EPA rules, including th... |
7 October 2011
02:06 GMT |
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The latest agencies to join the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the fight against imports that violate the public safety regulations are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).The two are now par... |
3 October 2011
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) committed to give $1.5 million (€1.11 million) to an estimated 125 local, state, and tribal governments who register before October 28, 2011, for the creation of sustainable communities.The money will be given through two separate programs – the Smart Growth I... |
30 September 2011
09:32 GMT |
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An engine certification services consulting firm that allegedly caused the importation of more than 24,000 uncertified recreational vehicles that do not comply with the Clean Air Act’s requirements has been sued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).MotorScience, Inc., located in California, reporte... |
30 September 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Following various severe cases of poisoning, various law enforcement agencies began a joint undercover investigation of the illegal sale of toxic pesticides in and around New York City.
That ended today with the arrest of twelve defendants charged for illegal distribution and sale of unregistered and misbranded p... |
20 September 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is continuing its efforts to include environmental justice into the Agency’s programs, policies, and activities with the launch of a three-year plan aimed at protecting people’s health in communities overburdened by pollution.Plan EJ 2014, as it is dubbed by ... |
15 September 2011
04:29 GMT |
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Recent tropical storms have caused significant disruptions of the fuel supply to the Pittsburgh area, forcing the EPA to temporarily waive certain federal clean gasoline requirements for parts of Pennsylvania.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the Department of Energy, acted to alle... |
13 September 2011
06:59 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently took an extra step in reaffirming its dedication to fighting the problem of electronic wastes at an international level. On Sunday, May 1, it signed a cooperative agreement with the United Nations University.The signing of this document essentially raised its inte... |
2 May 2011
11:13 GMT |
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A decision made under the Bush Administration, in 2008, held that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should not regulate levels of perchlorate in drinking water. The substance, which is heavily used in rocket fuel, will now make the object of such regulations, EPA decided. The agency decided that the issue ... |
4 February 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they reopened an additional 4,213 square miles of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to royal red shrimping. All the reopened surface is located off the coast of Louisiana, in federal waters. The new decision significantly reduces th... |
2 February 2011
06:46 GMT |
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In a new scientific research, an investigator in the United States is the latest voice to join a chorus of experts citing a class of newly-introduced pesticides as one of the main factors promoting the collapse of honeybee populations in the country.These controversial chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, are one of t... |
25 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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By 2013, the first national limits on Mercury and other toxic emissions from cement plants will be effective. The EPA has steeped in to control air pollution from cement plants, as they are the third largest source of Mercury air emissions, coming from cement kilns. As each year, almost 23,000 pounds of airborne Merc... |
10 August 2010
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a complete report on the quality of the air around the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill area yesterday, July 21. The document is based on measurements that the agency collected around the disaster site in June. More than 100 air polluta... |
22 July 2010
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Representatives from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have just dispatched a new research airplane to the Gulf of Mexico. The measure was taken in order for experts to ensure that the best available data of the ongoing disaster are collected. These sets of information w... |
10 June 2010
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Taken separately, gasoline and diesel fuel both bring a unique set of advantages and disadvantages to internal combustion engines. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have therefore seen no reason why the two should not be combined in their experiments, in an attempt to harvest the best of both world... |
4 August 2009
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Round Rock, Texas-based Dell has just announced the first of its PowerEdge server models to comply with the new specifications of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star. According to the company, which worked closely with the EPA to develop the new energy-efficiency specification, users of the company�... |
26 June 2009
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According to a growing consent among academics in the United States, the country is ill-equipped to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, in terms of protecting both the environment and the safety and health off its citizens. That is to say, the existing agencies, far from being incapable, simply find i... |
28 April 2009
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to its senses following its period of submission to political will during the Bush administration, and has finally put all the permits of mountaintop mining operators on hold, pending further investigation. As Bush left the White House, he granted his personal f... |
25 March 2009
07:38 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a very important step in fighting global warming recently, when it forwarded a proposed finding to the White House, which stated that climate change and the greenhouse effect were threats to America's financial and health security. If the proposal is approved by ... |
24 March 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Breaking loose from its wrong, Bush-era policies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to ask all companies in the United States to reveal exactly how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit in the atmosphere. This is a first for the federal agency, which has been tied up by the previ... |
11 March 2009
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On Tuesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a set of rules that determined the maximum amount of radiation allowed at the Yucca Mountain nuclear disposal site complex for the next 1 million years, although planning so far ahead may seem pointless to some. The current allowed radiation limits were ... |
18 February 2009
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The House and Senate approved on Friday the final stimuls bill, which awards more than $1.5 billion to agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the National Park Service (NPS) and the Forest Service for various ongoing projects, as well as for the beginning of cleaning operations in various parts of the ... |
16 February 2009
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
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Over the course of his term, President George W. Bush seemed to be spearheading a crusade to destroy the American environment, despite serious efforts on behalf of several organizations to stop him. He went on and removed regulations, changed decisions, and eliminated the necessity of scientific opinions from various... |
7 January 2009
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The failure to measure its sulfur content in some gas streams generated by burning natural gas took its toll on the Exxon Mobil oil company, as officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the firm would have to pay in excess of $6.1 million in civ... |
18 December 2008
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it was seeking to revise regulations set in place last June, which forced refineries to be very careful about the amounts of emissions they pumped into the atmosphere. Following the lobby of several major oil associations, EPA seeks to give companies ... |
13 December 2008
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Here are just a few of the most important achievements that environmental organizations managed to obtain or lead to during 2008. The list of successes is much longer, but the current row of accomplishments only highlights the most important or groundbreaking of them, as seen by Planetsave. The Environmental P... |
10 December 2008
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Last week, the Bush administration again favored the fossil fuel industry over the environment, when it allowed for new legislation, regulating the amount of debris that mountaintop mining companies could throw away into adjacent streams in valleys. As soon as the decision was announced, environmental groups started ... |
8 December 2008
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The investigative arm of Congress announced on Friday that more governmental control was needed in the manufacturing and distribution of genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in the nation's crops. The number of accidents involving modified organisms has been fairly low over the last years, but the Government Acc... |
8 December 2008
02:56 GMT |
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With only one more month in office, the Bush administration seems bent on destroying the US environment and ecosystems thoroughly, as proven by the recent pressures the former president has made on the Supreme Court, to allow the country's power plants to continue sucking billions of gallons of cooling waters, w... |
5 December 2008
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The Bush administration seems to thoroughly lack common sense in its decision-making process, as evidenced by the fact that, in the last few weeks, more environment-damaging bills were passed than during the entire duration of its office. The latest proposal, which was already accepted by the Environmental Protection... |
3 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is forced by a Supreme Court decision to start regulating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of all states, under the new Cleaner Air Act bill. Its proposal for the state of Texas was met with extreme hostility by Governor Rick Perry, who said yesterday that implementing the me... |
26 November 2008
04:30 GMT |
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On January 28th, 2008, Intel reached comprehensive investment in 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy. This fact makes the company the single largest corporate acquirer of green power in the United States. Intel leads in a challenge issued in December 2006 by EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), i... |
31 January 2008
13:08 GMT |
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It seems that people have started thinking "green" in the past years, with the demonstration against forest reclamation and against cars that consume a man's weight in liters of fuel every day. Hybrid cars are starting to catch on, solar panels have been widely accepted as an alternative, recycling is starting t... |
27 November 2007
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Microsoft Virtual Earth is a mission-critical geospatial and mapping platform and in this context it should be no surprise that the U.S. government is interested in the product. The Redmond company has applauded a new agreement inked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the licensing of Virtual Ea... |
13 September 2007
11:17 GMT |
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Most hardware manufacturers and vendors, from processors to hard disk drives manufacturers, are claiming that their products are going green, which means better energy efficiency while keeping performance at a high level. While this may very well be the truth, the high power to performance ratios are not enough to st... |
6 August 2007
05:42 GMT |
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It looks as if the entire computer manufacturing industry is having a collective green "fit". It is not something really new, some power regulations were installed long ago, but not until now were they so closely observed and respected. Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of a greener and environment frien... |
26 July 2007
09:58 GMT |
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A big step forward from HP is staying in line with rules and regulations, and one of those is the ENERGY STAR 4.0 specification. It is set to hit the market on July 20th, 2007, and being something set by the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), you don't want to mess with these guys. Theref... |
29 March 2007
06:13 GMT |
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While playing the role of top dog in the x86 processor industry, Intel still keeps a down to Earth attitude regarding protecting the environment and trying to keep this world as clean as possible. It has done this by working and developing a new implementation guide in conjunction with the United States Environmental... |
20 March 2007
11:35 GMT |
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