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Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:53 AM

Pollution

Type: Keyphrase
Name: Pollution
description: The contamination of a natural ecosystem, especially with reference to the activity of humans.
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Car buyers looking for low polluting vehicles have new tool
Website ranks cars by smog and greenhouse gas emissions SACRAMENTO: The today unveiled its revamped website, , which helps consumers choose the least polluting cars on the market.The new website, using information collected for , offers a practical system ... [California Air Resources Board - 7 hours ago]
Entities: Pollution, Smog, Emission
First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 3 Documents (in Politics)
Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports Pose Health Risk
Category: Environmental HealthFont SizePrint CommentsAir pollution may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports, scientists have said.Those airports are becoming an increasingly important ... [MedIndia - 44 mins ago]
First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Graphic Pollution Ad Shows Polar Bears Falling From The Sky
Plane Stupid, a UK grassroots group advocating for tougher laws against aviation expansion and pollution, have released a new ad showing polar bears falling from the sky and onto city streets. To be sure, this isn’t a commercial that pans away from ... [ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip - 13 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Air pollution: An important health concern for people living near regional airports
Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution - a well-recognized problem at major airports - may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. Those airports are becoming an increasingly ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Environment)
Hundreds Speak Out In Support of EPA Global Warming Rule
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API's Howard Feldman looks on.This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its , which we call ... [Treehugger - 13 hours ago]
First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Bangalore kids cycle to school
BANGALORE: A group of girls near the busy Old Airport Road in India's tech hub Bangalore bicycle to school every day as a lifestyle statement -- green transport is cool. 'Eight of my friends and I ride our bicycles to school every day. We don't use public ... [Times of India - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
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MMC Norilsk Nickel Group
Norway fund kicks out Norilsk Nickel over Siberian pollution controversy
Norway’s NOK2,385bn (€280bn) Government Pension Fund has excluded Norilsk Nickel, the Russian metallurgical and mining company, from its investment portfolio after its Council on Ethics accused the company of causing serious environmental damage at its ... [Responsible Investor - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 9 Documents (in Environment)
Australia govt not ruling out snap polls: minister
Australia's government on Friday refused to rule out snap elections if emissions trading laws are rejected for a second time, giving it the power to dissolve parliament.Trade Minister Simon Crean said "all options" were open as the government bids to ... [France24 - europe - 21 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Are Short Flights Polluting Your Neighborhood?
Image credit: √oхέƒx™ /Flickr A major air hub, with constant take-offs and landings and dozens of vehicles and large buildings is an obvious source of pollution. These huge airports may be strains of the atmosphere as a whole, but their immediate impact ... [Treehugger - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Ship pollution curbs to stoke global warming - study
OSLO (Reuters) - Shipping is slowing climate change by spewing out sunlight-dimming pollution but a clean-up needed to safeguard human health will stoke global warming, experts said on Friday."So far shipping has caused a cooling effect that has slowed ... [InSing.com - 12 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Waters of Indonesia's N Sulawesi polluted by mercury
Increases the bookmarktwitterfacebookdiggGoogleWindowsliveDeliciousbuzzfriendfeedLinkedindiigoredditstumbleuponWaters of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province is threatened by mercury pollution allegedly from gold mining activities in Bombana regency, Kompas.com ... [People's Daily Online - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
International wetlands body investigates PNG pollution
An international body for the protection of wetlands is investigating acute toxic pollution and a PNG government approved plan for a $15.6 billion mining project at Lake Kutubu  — a world listed site.The Ramsar Secretariat, responsible for the Ramsar ... [Crikey Media - 21 hours ago]

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"The site is more than 25 years old, with more than 25 lakh tonne of waste stored in it. As per CPCB rules, a disposal site should have four types of cover - soil, vegetation, drainage and polythene, to prevent pollution. This being a big site, proper planning was badly needed. Majority of waste has degraded having huge quantity of methane gas" EH Pathan, head of solid waste department (SMC), said
SMC to re-develop waste disposal site at Bhatar, Gujarat [DNA India - 10 mins ago]
On the issue of the tax exemptions for pollution and fire equipment, he said, "It's not a significant item for us, but it is of some consequence."
WY: Committee rejects tax measures [Stateline - 38 mins ago]
...5 times higher at distance equal to about six football fields. The study suggests that "current land-use practices of reduced buffer areas around local airports may be insufficient."
Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports Pose Health Risk [MedIndia - 44 mins ago]
...And so, like WMD and "Death Panels" now we have the " CRU email scandal ", discussed earlier by Kevin Grandia . Just two weeks from Copenhagen the British Climate Research Unit computers are hacked, their emails downloaded and sent off into Deniaworld. There, just as in the leadlead upup to the Iraq War, words are cherry picked, context removed, common sense abandoned, outrage simulated, war declared, counter views demonised. Vials of imaginary anthrax are displayed, trucks become mobile laboratories, aluminum tubes become nuclear bombs, rockets are ready to launch at New York in ten minutes.And suddenly, it seems, temperatures are no longer rising, the Arctic is no longer melting, glaciers don't retreat, droughts don't happen, record temperatures are no longer set, marine acidity doesn't increase, sea levels don't rise, plants don't flower at different times, birds don't breed at different times, firestorms no longer erupt.It was, apparently, all just a dream.But I'm a wake upup on The Watermelon Blog . " More on Climate Change
David Horton: Dream of money-bags tonight [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 47 mins ago]

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SMC to re-develop waste disposal site at Bhatar... [DNA India - 10 mins ago]
Dutch tourists polluting more [Expatica Netherlands - 36 mins ago]
Chartis Brings Out Coverage for Environmental R... [Individual.com - 38 mins ago]
WY: Committee rejects tax measures [Stateline - 38 mins ago]
Elevated Pollution Levels Near Regional Airport... [MedIndia - 44 mins ago]
Botanical Whales [Science News Online - 46 mins ago]
Pennsylvania residents sue Texas natural gas co... [Star-Telegram - 1 hour ago]
Not angry enough [Asian Age - 1 hour ago]
Norway fund kicks out Norilsk Nickel over Siber... [Responsible Investor - 1 hour ago]
Bangalore kids cycle to school [Times of India - 1 hour ago]
Green lifestyle statement: Bangalore kids cycle... [Yahoo! India - 2 hours ago]
The Gentle Giant [Manila Bulletin - 2 hours ago]
Honda tops in efficiency on roads [Economictimes - 2 hours ago]
People unaware of sea pollution [National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 2 hours ago]
PSI marks five years as SmartWay affiliate [Trailer / Body Builders - 2 hours ago]
Conservation Organizations Join Legal Effort to... [Pacific Environment - 2 hours ago]
Ozone bubble method to remove polluted oil shee... [NewKerala.com - 3 hours ago]
DIESEL REDEFINED [Manila Times - 3 hours ago]
A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade [BusinessWeek - 3 hours ago]
Sardinian Travel Tax falls foul of EU law [Chartered Accountants Ireland - 3 hours ago]
Middle East coastline faces devastation if clim... [Lebanon Daily Star - 3 hours ago]
Sky's the limit as Beijing's smog lifts [CHINAdaily - 3 hours ago]
Burning peat in Borneo pollutes the atmosphere [San Francisco Chronicle - 3 hours ago]
Assocham, ministries join hands to handle hazar... [Indian Express - 4 hours ago]
European Union: Fading Presidential Ambitions [Sofia News Agency - 4 hours ago]
A trade center in West Africa: Benin’s c... [Zaman - 4 hours ago]
Pollution peaks after power station black out [Malta Star - 4 hours ago]
Azeri Fishermen Lament Vanished Shrimps [IWPR - 4 hours ago]
Why is green business decades away? Better ask ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 4 hours ago]
City cuts power to major polluters [Thanhnien - 5 hours ago]
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David Horton: Dream of money-bags tonight [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 47 mins ago]
All of us who concerned about the future of the planet have misunderestimated the opposition from those who are not. We thought that the flooding of web ...
Information and Crude Complexity [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 57 mins ago]
This is a guest post by WebHubbleTelescope. Scientific theories get selected for advancement much like evolution promotes the strongest species to survive. New ...
Monsanto aims to stop leaks at Idaho mine dump [Economy-Finance - 2 hours ago]
BOISE, Idaho— Monsanto Co. is installing a water management system at an Idaho phosphate mine the company depends on to make its Roundup weedkiller to stop the leakage ...
Tweetmeme launches buttons for re-tweetable adv... [Venturebeat - 5 hours ago]
Twitter said it’s planning a large-scale advertising network soon, but U.K.-based Tweetmeme beat them to the punch with a monetization effort of its own today. The ...
The East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) ha... [Larvatus Prodeo - 6 hours ago]
This is the BBC’s report of the great hacking scandal, whereby hackers breached the security of East Anglia University and stole a vast amount of private email communication. ...
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Audio/Video

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Attack Ad Distorts the Truth About Energy [Rep. Denny Rehberg - YouTube Channel - 9 hours ago]
Inside Story - US - China relations - 18 Nov 09 [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
What impact do rockets have on the environment? [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
Dirty Rockets [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
Sustainable Salads [Slate Magazine - 11/10/2009]
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