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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association's "State of the Air 2013" report released today finds significant progress in the reduction of year-round particle pollution (soot) across the nation, but many cities that ranked among the most polluted had more unhealthy days of high ozone (smog) and short-term particle pollution than in the 2012 report. Despite that uptick, "State of the Air 2013" shows that the air quality nationwide continues the...
LAWRENCE ANTHONY EARTH ORGANIZATION (LAEO) PUBLISHES NEW STUDY CITING EPA MISGUIDANCE IS AT FAULT LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Year 3, Gulf Oil Spill Disaster -- An entirely new approach to oil spill problems associated with drilling, transport, pipelines and storage mishaps could find surprising common ground between the oil industry and environmentalists, according to a new position paper just released entitled: A Call for a Twenty-First-Century SOLUTION in Oil Spill...
LONDON, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brazilian ARLA 32 market is forecast to exceed one billion litres by 2018, according to Integer's new Brazil Diesel Emissions & ARLA 32 Market Study: 2013 Edition. [http://www.integer-research.com/environment-emissions/products/brazil-diesel-emissions-arla-32 ] Brazil adopted Euro-V-equivalent emissions legislation, known as PROCONVE P7, in January 2012. Euro-IV-equivalent standards were cancelled in 2009 amid concerns over...
Results from large cohort study presented at EuroPRevent 2013 The association between road traffic and heart disease has been suggested in several studies. In 2012 a large prospective cohort study from Denmark showed that traffic noise was significantly associated with risk of heart attack - for every 10 decibel increase in noise exposure (either at the time of the attack or over the five years preceding it) there was a 12% increased risk. Now, a new study presented at the EuroPRevent...
Property Closing Clears Way for Demolition Activity SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest chapter in a major Union Township, New Jersey redevelopment project is being written with the sale of the former National Envelope Corporation facility to EFG-Clermont Terrace, LLC, an EnviroFinance(®) Group company doing business in New Jersey. EFG-Clermont Terrace, LLC (EFG-CT) intends to change the nature of the site with the creation of a vibrant residential...
Costa Farms O2 For You: Houseplants with a Purpose lets anyone bring home Earth’s natural air purifiers for health and well being. Miami, FL (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 Houseplants do more than just look leafy and gorgeous, they also help clean the air. These leafy air filters remove indoor pollutants by absorbing them through microscopic openings in their leaves. To help spread awareness of the dangers of indoor air pollution and educate consumers on the health benefits of having plants in...
Sen. Erickson's bill would provide important option for local governments HARRISBURG, Pa., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PennFuture today praised the Pennsylvania Senate for passing Senator Ted Erickson's Senate Bill (SB) 351 as a wise move forward in giving local governments another tool to address flooding and improve stormwater management through the creation of municipal stormwater authorities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130211/DC57616LOGO) "SB 351,...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While much of the debate surrounding climate change has centered on the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, a new study in Nature Climate Change found that reducing the emissions of other greenhouse gases could have a profound influence on one of the major knock-on effects of climate change: sea level rise. As glaciers around the Earth’s polar regions melt due to higher temperatures, they are expected to contribute substantial...
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President Charles T. Drevna responded to the recent New Hampshire verdict in a case over the use of the gasoline additive MTBE: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120125/MM41823LOGO ) "The EPA has twice approved MTBE as an acceptable gasoline additive. More than 30 years later a jury labeled it a defective product, leaving the petroleum industry to clean up the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Fine particles in the air resulting from burning coal or volcanic eruptions can negatively affect coral growth, a team of climate scientists and coral ecologists from the UK, Australia and Panama has discovered. The study, which appears in this week’s edition of the journal Nature Geoscience, found that coral reefs respond to changes in the concentration of atmospheric pollution. Those particulates can shade the corals from...
Latest Pollution Reference Libraries
Acid rain is any form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that is possesses high levels of hydrogen ions. It can have harmful effects on aquatic animals, plants, and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules within the atmosphere to produce acids. Nitrogen oxides can be produced naturally by lightening strikes. Sulfur dioxide can be produced naturally by volcanic eruptions. The chemicals that are...
Water pollution is the contamination of bodies of water including rivers, oceans, lakes, aquifers and groundwater. Water pollution is when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into a body of water without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. Water pollution affects the plants and organisms that reside in these bodies of water. In almost all of the cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but to the natural biological communities as...
Today's soil contamination is a direct result of man-made chemicals or other changes in nature's soil environment. This contamination most commonly occurs from underground storage tanks bursting, use of pesticides, discarding oil and fuel illegally, leakage of dirty surface water, draining of wastes from landfalls and knowingly dumping industrial wastes into the soil. The most widespread chemicals found are petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, common pesticides, lead and additional heavy metals....
Arctic haze is a phenomenon that occurs in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic due to air pollution. What distinguishes Arctic haze from haze found elsewhere, is the ability of its chemical ingredients to endure in the atmosphere for a longer period of time compared to other pollutants. Due to limited snowfall, rain, or turbulent air to displace pollutants from the polar air in the spring, Arctic haze can continue for more than a month in the northern atmosphere. Arctic haze...
