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- Edison Electric Institute Statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's Proposed Air Quality Standard for Ozone
- To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Dan Riedinger of the Edison Electric Institute, +1-202- 508-5483 WASHINGTON, June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from John Kinsman, director of air quality programs at the Edison Electric Institute EEI, on EPA's proposal to revise the national ambient air quality standard for ozone. EEI is...
- Research articles 2007-06-21
- TCEQ Update.(Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)
- By Liz Moucka Where Texas stands in air quality compliance. The EPA realizes that Texas is making tremendous improvements in air and water quality as compared to other states, even as we are growing far faster in population...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- NOx Reduction on a College Campus
- Strict emission requirements met with steam-boiler systemShown to pose a health risk in even small amounts through long-term exposure, ground-level ozone is the result oil the atmospheric interaction of oxides of nitrogen NOx and volatile organic compounds VOCs in the presence of sunlight. With the majority of VOCs formed from...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Science
- Scientists collect samples of air, water, soil, plants, and tissue to detect and monitor pollution. Pollutants are most often extracted from samples, then isolated by a technique called chromatography and analyzed by appropriate detection methods. Many pollutants are identified by their spectral fingerprints, unique patterns of absorbed or emitted radiation...
- Research articles 2005-10-25
- Ozone levels are falling in 19 states, EPA says
- WASHINGTON -- A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency says ozone levels are falling in 19 Eastern states where bad air is common in the summer. The reduction reflects what agency officials describe as a significant decline in emissions of nitrogen oxides, whose reaction with sunlight, other...
- Research articles 2005-08-19
- A Real "Super" Conference
- The Seventeenth Annual Texas Environmental SuperConference has come and gone - and most of the 525-plus registrants can hardly wait to get back and eat more ice cream - er, listen to more great lectures as they gain continuing legal education credits, laugh hysterically at the skits, enjoy the Four...
- Research articles 2005-08-11
- new rules, The
- This March, the U.S. EPA announced two additional air pollution rules that apply to coal-fired utility boilers: the Clean Air Interstate Rule CAIR and the Clean Air Mercury Rule CAMR. The intent of the CAIR is to reduce ground-level concentrations of criteria pollutants (PM2.5, ozone) to National Ambient Air Quality...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Corporations Honored for Climate, Ozone Protection
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Several of America's largest corporations, two cities and three individuals were honored Wednesday for their efforts to protect the Earth's climate and stratospheric ozone layer. American Electric Power, 3M, Cinergy, the California Energy Commission, and the cities of Boulder, Colorado, and Syracuse, New York,...
- Research articles 2005-05-06
- Coal-fired power in a restructured electricity market.(Environmental Regulation, Energy, and Market Entry)
- The last decade has seen a series of fierce, protracted battles over the regulation of air pollution from coal-fired power plants in the United States. These battles have been and are being waged by electric utilities, environmental groups, and the last two presidential administrations, among others,...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- Ohio Would Dump Federal Tailpipe Test
- COLUMBUS, Ohio ENS — --> The Ohio EPA has recommended ending the federal tailpipe emissions E-Check program in the Cincinnati and Dayton areas on December 31, 2005. The state says it is taking the opportunity of ending the unpopular emissions testing program when its 10 year contract with Envirotest...
- Research articles 2005-02-28
- Texas panel approves Beaumont-area plan to comply with Clean Air Act.
- By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--Southeast Texans should be breathing federally approved clean air by November 2005 or mid-2007, depending on which standard of the Clean Air Act is applied. Also, highway...
- Research articles 2004-10-29
- San Antonio Express-News David Hendricks column.
- By David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 16--S.A. CAN'T COMPETE WITHOUT MEETING AIR QUALITY STANDARD: Next year will be the first of a three-year test that will go a long way toward determining San Antonio's manufacturing future. ...
- Research articles 2004-10-16
- O2Diesel Cleans County Air
- (AMEX: OTD) -- According to the EPA, the United States has some 474 counties whose air quality standards do not meet revised EPA Clean Air guidelines for ozone ("smog") emissions as adopted in April of this year. This translates into approximately half the U.S. population, about 159 million people,...
- Research articles 2004-10-11
- Smog Cleanup Stalled in Many U.S. Cities
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — An internal report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA casts doubt on the repeated claim by the Bush administration that the nation's air quality is improving. Ground level ozone has not declined in most of the nation's seriously polluted areas during the past decade...
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Charting a path for cost-effective NOx control: evaluate the site-specific pros and cons of upstream combustion modifications versus end-of-pipe control technologies. Many applications will call for both.
- Implicated in the formation of ground-level ozone and acid rain, emissions of nitrogen oxides NOx represent an ongoing challenge for many chemical process and electric utility operators, who face unrelenting regulatory pressure to reduce such emissions in order to meet (in the U.S.) a combination of federal and state regulations....
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- U.S. agency gives southeast Michigan motorists pass on vehicle-emissions test.
- By Hugh McDiarmid Jr., Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--Vehicle emissions testing won't be required of southeast Michigan motorists, federal officials announced Thursday. In return, the state has promised to clean up smog emissions more quickly than...
- Research articles 2004-09-17
- Report: Northeast power plants cut emissions
- SYRACUSE - New York businesses and their counterparts across the Northeast are making significant strides in reducing nitrogen oxide NOx emissions, according to a new report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA.In its first annual "NOx Budget Trading Program 2003 Progress and Compliance Report," released Sept. 2, the...
- Research articles 2004-09-10
- SuperConference Highlights
- The Sixteenth Annual Texas Environmental Superconference is history - and one for the books. Next year, the big question will be who will be playing Spiderman, swinging from the rafters of the Four Seasons Hotel lobby. Yup! Next year's theme will be super heroes (including the mystery men?). Among...
- Research articles 2004-08-09
- Smog and Climate Change Connection False; NCPA Says NRDC Study Flawed; Allows Politics to Cloud Science
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new report from the National Resources Defense Council, a liberal environmental advocacy group, makes the erroneous claim that future ozone smog levels will increase thanks to human-induced global warming. According to experts from the National Center for Policy Analysis NCPA, the study...
- Research articles 2004-08-06
- RNC Ad Watch for MoveOn PAC 'Debate' Ad (4/4)
- WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is an "Ad Watch" released today by the Republican National Committee (Part 4 of 4): Kerry Was Slow To Jump On Bandwagon Of Giving All Americans Same Coverage Options As Congress When Idea Was Proposed In 1993, Kerry Was Skeptical And Expressed...
- Research articles 2004-07-20
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