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- Fishing banned despite low levels of toxic slick in Russia's Amur
- VLADIVOSTOK, Russia AFP — Russians will be denied fishing in the Amur river in the Far East for half a year though levels of toxic elements flowing from China are low, officials said. "The region's inhabitants are once again reminded that fishing in the Amur is prohibited," the Khabarovsk...
- Research articles 2005-12-25
- China's Harbin endures third day without water, environmental fears
- HARBIN, China AFP — Millions of residents in China's Harbin city endured their third full day without running water due to a toxic chemical spill, as concerns grew over the long-term impacts of the disaster. Harbin's taps remained turned off as an 80-kilometer (50-mile) slick of the carcinogen benzene...
- Research articles 2005-11-24
- 35 Years and Counting: IPAA's Environment and Safety Committee Fights For Reasonable Regulation
- As president of Kelley Engineering, IPAA Environment and Safety Committee chairman Roger Kelley has been helping independent oil and natural gas producers all over the U.S. deal with environmental issues for more than a decade."My company represents our clients as their contract environmental staff," Kelley says. "When an issue comes...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Ground Zero helpers sue government over air quality 'lies' after towers fell.
- By Thomas Zambito, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 24--Several Ground Zero workers sued the federal government yesterday for allegedly lying about air quality after the World Trade Center attacks. The suit accuses officials of the...
- Research articles 2004-11-24
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Air Toxic Rules for Refiners.
- A federal court agreed with the Environmental Protection Agency EPA that its rules to curb oil refiners from increasing toxic gasoline emissions was appropriate and dismissed challenges to the rulemaking from environmental groups as "ill founded." The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in its...
- Research articles 2003-04-29
- The humbugs of the anti-regulatory movement.(myths of absurdly expensive environmental regulation)(cost-per-life)
- It is so hard to get beyond cynicism these days. Even a symposium devoted to this goal has, as reflected in the articles by Professors Cynthia Farina, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Mark Seidenfeld, succeeded primarily in suggesting that regulators are not so much selfish as they are...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Federal Prosecutors Compromise on Pollution Case against Kansas-Based Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jan. 3--Attempting to simplify the pollution case against Koch Industries Inc., federal prosecutors set aside 86 counts Tuesday and asked a federal judge to move forward with 11 charges. Officials hope the pared-down indictment against the petroleum giant satisfies U.S. District Judge Janis Jack...
- Research articles 2001-01-03
- ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Government of Canada acts to further reduce air pollutants.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 June 1999-ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Government of Canada acts to further reduce air pollutants C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:310599 OTTAWA -- Environment Minister Christine S. Stewart kicked off Environment Week 1999 today by announcing proposed new regulations to give Canadians cleaner...
- Research articles 1999-06-02
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- Protestors blame Serbian government for deadly pollution
- BELGRADE AFP — Around 1,000 angry residents of a Serbian industrial town have staged a protest in Belgrade against government inaction after an alert caused by a gas cloud of cancer-causing pollution. The demonstration by residents of Pancevo, about 15 kilometres (10 miles) northeast of Belgrade, was organised by local...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- Benzene Standard Affirmed
- AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Health Administration official says the agency has no plans to tighten the current standard for benzene exposures. The government is looking at other chemicals that pose greater risks and are present at much higher levels t AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Health Administration...
- Research articles 1997-03-10
- New EPA rules eye toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rule targets toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- PHILIPPINES: Invitation to bid on construction of $100,000,000 refinery unit is tentatively scheduled to be issued in late 2002 including the possible addition of an isomerization unit, PETRON CORP. [Philippines] - Order #: 037402.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local PETRON CORP. currently operates an 180,000-barrel per day (b/d) refinery in Bataan that has 3 crude distillation units. However, the government recently enacted new clean air standards that require that benzene and other aromatics in gasoline be reduced to...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Oil recycling site clean-up to cost $8.9m?:
- An abandoned oil reclamation facility in Wyoming is to be cleaned up by five oil firms at a cost of $4.4-8.9 million. The US Government has reached a settlement with Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc., Conoco Pipe Line Company, Eighty-Eight Oil Company, True Oil Company, and ...
- Research articles 1994-05-01
- Water cut off in China's Harbin city amid chemical scare
- BEIJING, AFP — Water supplies were cut off in one of China's biggest cities, as the government confirmed a potential chemical leak into river water from a factory blast was behind the "emergency" measure. Water to the urban districts of Harbin, the capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province, were stopped...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- ‘Cash For Clunkers': Did It Work?
- Sure, the program boosted sales and put more-efficient cars on the road. But a look behind the numbers reveals some surprising side effects. ...
- Articles 2009-08-24
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