Archive for January, 2008
Court: NC can proceed with lawsuit against TVA (The Daily Comet)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina can proceed with a lawsuit that accuses the Tennessee Valley Authority of causing a “public nuisance” with pollution from its coal-fired plants, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read More..>>N.C. can sue TVA over power plant pollution (The News & Observer)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
The state of North Carolina will be allowed to sue the Tennessee Valley Authority to clean up its power plants and reduce air pollution blowing into North Carolina, a federal appeals court ruled today.
Read More..>>Abrogation of vehicle pollution charge might lead to financial misbalance in 2009 (Nine O’Clock)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
The abrogation of the motor-vehicle pollution charge would trigger many financial claims that would be sending shockwaves into the 2009 state budget, Economy and Finance Minister Varujan Vosganian has stated recently, according to Rompres.
Read More..>>Environmental Protection Agency Gets Tough on Greka (Santa Barbara Independent)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Fines of $32,000 a day until compliance with pollution control act.
Read More..>>Conservation strategies must shift with global environmental change, says CU-Boulder study (PhysOrg)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Sustaining and enhancing altered ecosystems has become the new mantra for conservation and restoration managers as ecosystems continue to change in response to global warming and other environmental changes, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Read More..>>Learn about environmental training for CAFOs Feb. 5 (Tri-State Neighbor)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
BROOKINGS, S.D. - Environmental training for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations is set for Feb. 5 in Huron, S.D. The program is the first of three offered in 2008 and producers and consultants are encouraged to attend this event.
Read More..>>Tom Harris: Words key weapon in climate war
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
University of Florida linguist M. J. Hardman tells us ( Language and War , 2002) that “language is inseparable from humanity and follows us in all our works. Language is the instrument with which we form thought and feeling, mood,…
Read More..>>100 per cent pure? Er, not quite
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
New Zealand’s reputation as a clean green country remains intact but is under siege, a stocktake of the country’s environmental status shows.
The Environment 2007 report, released yesterday, said the purity of New Zealand’s soil,…
Read More..>>Baikal pollution by pulp mill to cost Russia $80 mln per month (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti) - The contamination of the world’s largest freshwater lake by the Baikal pulp mill will cost Russia 2 billion rubles ($80 million) per month, the country’s environmental watchdog said on Thursday.
Read More..>>Air pollution at an unhealthy level (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Curbing Pollution, Environmental Pollution, General, Global Warming, Land Pollution, Ocean Pollution, Pollution News, Water Pollution
Local officials issued an air quality warning Wednesday after recording particularly high readings of pollution
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