Tag: Air
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How You Can Harness the Sun, Mitigate Climate Change and Support Clean Water
MARC YAGGI — Increasingly, we have opportunities to become our own power plants and mitigate the environmental devastation caused by traditional energy sources. In particular, we can harness the power of the sun …
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New EPA Study Shows Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters—Are They in Your Backyard?
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday released plant-by-plant data on 2011 emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping air pollutants. The data show once again that …
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Will Nations Embrace Opportunity to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions and Slow Arctic Warming?
EARTHJUSTICE — Arctic nations have an extraordinary opportunity to show global leadership to slow regional warming and melting by embracing a proposal to launch talks on …
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Will Nations Embrace Opportunity to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions and Slow Arctic Warming?
EARTHJUSTICE — Arctic nations have an extraordinary opportunity to show global leadership to slow regional warming and melting by embracing a proposal to launch talks on …
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How Fracking Impacts Local Food
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — “Should the moratorium on hydrofracking in New York State be lifted, the 16,200-member Park Slope Food Co-op, in Brooklyn, will no longer buy food from farms anywhere near drilling operations …