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Houston mayor wants accurate emission calculations (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Houston Mayor Bill White asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change the way it calculates hazardous gas emissions in the city.
Houston Mayor Wants Accurate Emission Calculations (FOX 26 Houston) Houston Mayor Bill White asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to change the way it calculates hazardous gas emissions in the city.
Environmental group to sue EPA over BR air quality (The Advocate) A Baton Rouge environmental group informed state and federal officials Thursday it intends to sue government agencies over their alleged failure to clean up the city?s air.
There'll be more AIDS, HIV (The Hanford Sentinel) Editor: You know, everyone who has written into The Sentinel concerning the new law allowing for the "gay" folks who live together to get married has been setting the Bible or God as the reason that they believe it's wrong. God never intended for same-sex couples to live together.
Plants with a Purpose (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - Thank a plant today. Silent and always "working," these green heroes toil tirelessly to purify our environment and improve our lives, naturally cleansing the very air we breathe.
Mayor Asks EPA For Emission Changes (KPRC Local 2 Houston) HOUSTON -- As air quality meters continue to pick up high concentrations of benzene in the air in parts of Southeast Houston, mayor Bill White announced the city's next plan of action in the battle against hazardous emissions, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.
UOP Technology Selected by China's PetroChina for New Integrated Refining and Petrochemicals Complex (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) DES PLAINES, Ill.----UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the PetroChina Company Limited, has selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment for a new integrated refining and petrochemicals complex to be installed at its facility near Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Houston's mayor wants better system to measure for air pollutants (11 News Houston) In what may be a surprise for many, the statistics the Environmental Protection Agency to figure out the amount of harmful pollutants released into the air are actually estimates and not direct measurements.
Culligan's New Aqua-Cleer(R) Advanced Drinking Water System Provides Clean, Quality Water Customized For Every Home (Medical News Today) Health Canada estimates unsafe drinking water causes 90,000 illnesses and 90 deaths every year. News headlines warning of contaminants[1] (i.e. arsenic, benzene, chlorine) and pesticides in tap water have stirred controversy and confusion. Canadians are also learning that water in single-serve, disposable plastic bottles isn't an environmentally-friendly solution to their drinking water concerns.
Mayor White: EPA counts only 1% of refineries' pollution (Houston Chronicle) Mayor Bill White on Thursday challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's methods for calculating emissions from large refineries and chemical plants, saying that the approach significantly underreports the amount of pollution in Houston's skies.
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