The EPA's Endangerment Finding
Today, not unexpectedly, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued Endangerment and Cause or Contribution findings that will set in motion a slew of regulations under the federal Clean Air Act....
View ArticleGood Emissions News from the Port of L.A.
We've written before about the Port of LA's sustainability efforts. According to the port's just-released emissions inventory for 2009, diesel particulate matter emissions fell by 37% from the previous...
View ArticleTruck Idling and APUs
From Earth & Industry, an article drawing attention to one of the key environmental problems for the transport sector: truck idling. Federal regulations require that truckers rest for 10 hours out...
View ArticleEPA, Air Pollution and (Whose) Reality
Yesterday, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency proposed that it would relax the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule for 10 of the 23 states to which it is intended to apply, but that proposed rollback...
View ArticleToxic 100 List Released
The Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has just released its "Toxic 100" list, a ranking of the world's biggest corporate air polluters. At the top of the...
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New Chinese Smartphone App Pinpoints Worst Polluters
An environmental group in China has launched a smartphone application that enables users to view regional pollution levels and factory emissions in real time. Around 15,000 factories in China report...
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