On April 29, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a set of regulatory proposals under the Clean Air Act that address emissions from boilers, process heaters, and certain solid waste incinerators. The proposed emissions regulations would cut U.S. mercury emissions by more than half and significantly reduce emissions from boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators, according to...
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Pollution
Regulators Target Toxic Emissions from Boilers, Waste Incinerators
EPA Rejects Proposed New Source Review Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to revoke a January 2009 rule altering the way existing industrial facilities combine upcoming construction projects to determine if Clean Air Act permits are needed. New Source Review is a pre-construction permitting program to ensure air quality is maintained when factories, industrial boilers and power plants are built or modified. The...
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EPA Gets Serious About Pollution from Large Ships
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has raised the standard for large U.S.- flagged ships with harmful marine diesel emissions. The new regulation will bring the U.S. into accord with international standards and result in susbtantial air-quality improvements for the nation. “There are enormous health and environmental consequences that come from marine diesel emissions, affecting...
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Plastic Bottle Recycling Reaches Record High
Plastic bottle recycling by consumers climbed by 3.2 percent in 2008 to a record high of more than 2.4 billion pounds, according to figures released jointly today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR). The 19th annual National Post-Consumer Plastics Bottle Recycling Report also found that the results reflect a...
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EPA Orders Review of Pesticides Impact on Endocrine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first test orders for pesticide chemicals to be screened for their potential effects on the endocrine system last week. Testing, conducted through the agency’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program , will eventually expand to cover all pesticide chemicals. “After years of delay, EPA is aggressively moving forward by...
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E-ZPass Kills Congestion, Saves Babies – Literally
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a new working paper yesterday called Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass that provides evidence of the significant health problems caused by traffic congestion. The paper, written by Janet Currie and Reed Walker, tracks the influence of the introduction of electronic toll collection on highways – E-ZPass – on the health of infants born to mothers living near...
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EPA Funds Abestos Removal in Louisiana
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provided $150,000 to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to reduce asbestos exposure in schools and state buildings through compliance monitoring, compliance assistance and public outreach, inspections, enforcement, and ensuring asbestos abatement workers are property trained and accredited.
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