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FirstEnergy To Retire 3 Coal-Fired Plants, Adding To Closures
Wall Street Journal
The new environmental standards place limits on power plants' emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxins into the air. It added that the three plants have served mostly as peaking facilities, generating on average less than 1%…
A new standard for the environment
Aspen Times
21, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency announced the first-ever nationwide standard for mercury and air-toxins pollution from power plants. This new standard is expected to cut toxic mercury pollution from power plants across the ...
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Mercury and other pollutant regulations beneficial for Wisconsin citizens
Madison.com
Complications such as cancer, heart disease, neurological damage, birth defects, asthma attacks and premature death are all linked to toxins in the air. According to Wisconsin Environment, one in ten American women of childbearing age has enough ...
EPA's…
Telarah Lagoon a health risk
The Maitland Mercury
“Blue-green algae can be a serious environmental and human health problem with the release of toxins and skin irritants,” the council's development and environment manager David Simm said. “Anyone visiting Telarah Lagoon should avoid contact with the ...
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Pro-Life Means Anti-Abortion and A Lot More
Christian News Wire (press release)
20, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Evangelical Environmental Network will be marching again at the Annual March for Life on Monday to stand up for the conviction that the unborn need to be protected from abortion, mercury…
Here's to healthier air
Catholic Sentinel
Welcome to a new year with fewer birth defects, incidents of lung disease and asthma in children, thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency's first national standard for emissions of mercury and other toxins from coal-burning power plants. ...
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Los Angeles Times
EPA Web tool tracks major greenhouse gas sources
Los Angeles Times
The EPA's Greenhouse Gas Emission Data tool is modeled on its 20-year-old toxins release inventory map that invites people to plug in their ZIP Codes to see what kinds of federally designated toxic substances are…
COMMUNITY COMMENT: We must reduce mercury, other toxins
Evansville Courier & Press
Yet, every day invisible mercury and other toxic air pollutants fall from the Indiana sky and damage the brains of our infants and children, and it doesn't get much attention because we can't "see" it. The US…
Aljazeera.com
As new mercury rules loom, US power sector eyes dramatic change
Greenbang
In the closing days of 2011, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its first-ever national standards for mercury emissions and other airborne toxins produced by burning coal to generate electricity. The standards were required under…
Legal News Line
When enacting stronger pollution rules, the sooner, the better for all
Austin American-Statesman
21, regulates emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxins from coal- and oil-fired power plants. This rule has a generous three-year implementation period with a possible one-year extension — and thus doesn't take…
Wall Street Journal
Court Delays EPA Smog Rule
Wall Street Journal
A separate rule limiting the emissions of mercury and other toxins was made final earlier this month and will start requiring emissions cuts in 2015. But the cross-state rule would have required pollution reductions in 2012. To comply,…
5 Medical Advances Predicted for 2012
Fox News
In December the Environmental Protection Agency announced new limits for mercury emissions and air toxins that it said will prevent 11000 premature deaths and 4700 heart attacks a year. Coal industry groups criticized the new EPA rules. ...
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French Tribune
Power Plants Face Stricter EPA Rules to Prevent Toxic Air Pollutants
SEOLawFirm.com Legal News Center
Environmental advocates also fought to implement stricter regulations for mercury, toxins, and other pollutants that many of America's power plants still emitted. Environmental lawsuits and toxic tort cases have involved the Environmental…
Newsday
Mercury rule will help clear air
Newsday
The latest move came last week, when his Environmental Protection Agency made final a new rule to sharply reduce power-plant emissions of mercury and other toxins. In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act and directed the EPA to control toxins…
The Indypendent
At Last!
Huffington Post
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, more American waters are closed to fishing due to mercury pollution than because of any other toxic contaminant. Mercury makes its way into our waterways after leaving power plants' smokestacks. ...
U.S. Limits Mercury Pollution as…
Facing South
New pollution limits for power plants will ease toxic burden on Southern ...
Facing South
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules yesterday that will cut emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxic air emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants, the main source of such health-damaging…
USA TODAY
New EPA Rules Target Power Plants' Toxic Mercury Emissions
PBS NewsHour
LISA JACKSON, Environmental Protection Agency: And this is a suite of air toxic standards. It is mercury. It is arsenic. It is cadmium. It is chromium. It is cyanide. It is hydrochloric acid. It is hydrofluoric…
Collins, Snowe urged to support clean air rules
Bangor Daily News
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected this week to unveil first-ever national standards for mercury and other toxic pollutants released from power plant smokestacks. The agency says the standards will keep 91 percent of the mercury in coal…
Chicago Tribune
EPA is set to OK new rules on toxic emissions
STLtoday.com
WASHINGTON • The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to approve today a tough new rule to limit emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxins from the country's power plants, according to people with knowledge of the…
U.S. to impose sharp limits on mercury emissions
Bellingham Herald
By NEELA BANERJEE - Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected Friday to approve a tough new rule to limit emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxins from the country's power plants, according to people…
The Earth Times
US to impose sharp limits on mercury emissions
MiamiHerald.com
By NEELA BANERJEE WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is expected Friday to approve a tough new rule to limit emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxins from the country's power plants, according to people with knowledge…
Mercury danger to undergo more study
The Durango Herald
The Environmental Protection Agency limit for mercury in fish is 0.3 parts per million. Wheeler was glad to hear about the interest in toxins in fish in Southwest Colorado. “The more people who study mercury, the better,” Wheeler said. ...Read more
Health Care News
Breathe easy: 5 reasons to back the EPA's latest push to clean up our air
CBS News
Unless you have a taste for airborne toxins, you'll be glad to know that the Environmental Protection Agency is set this week to take a major step in restricting…
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Stop the Riders: GOP Lawmakers Slow Down Bills with Anti-Environmental Attacks
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
One rider would allow industrial facilities to release more mercury, lead, and other toxins into the air we breathe. The other would enable the Keystone XL pipeline to…
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
New mercury pollution reductions will protect NJ from contaminated seafood
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
But there is another, more unfortunate tradition in New Jersey: the Department of Environmental Protection's seafood advisories, which warn New Jerseyans, especially women of childbearing age, about the dangers…
ThinkProgress
Will Our Elected Representatives Sacrifice 28000 Lives to Cut a Last-Minute ...
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Torpedoing must-pass legislation with anti-environmental riders is no way to run the country, and deadly legislation aimed at delaying toxic air pollution standards for incinerators and industrial boilers has no place…
Living Wage
National Journal
... according to the Environmental Protection Agency. EPA uses that figure, derived from a hefty body of economic research, to weigh the costs and benefits of new pollution rules slashing coal-plant emissions of mercury, soot, arsenic, and other toxins ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Coal in the crosshairs: Will mercury rule have teeth? | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Yesterday, a national nonprofit, the Environmental Integrity Project, released its analysis of mercury and toxic emissions from the nation's power plants. Using data from 2010, it ranked the dirtiest dozen…
Kentucky Power Plants Again Ranked Among Nation's Worst Polluters
WFPL
But emitting high levels of these air toxins isn't against the law, yet. The federal government is scheduled to finalize a rule next week that will require power plants to install advanced technology to control mercury and other pollutants.…
Group points blame at mercury
MetroWest Daily News
A group pushing for a federal emission rule aimed at coal-fired power plants and mercury is pointing to the toxin's spoiling of fish in state waters, including local ponds and lakes and the Charles and Sudbury rivers. ...
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New York Times
Official Weighs EPA Against Cyber Threats
Bloomberg
That's why the energy commission held a conference yesterday to evaluate whether pending Environmental Protection Agency rules might inadvertently encourage failures. The rules in question would reduce the amount of mercury and other toxins released ...
Utilities may win…
Homegrown: December 2011 calendar
Eastern Iowa Life
The Obama administration is currently considering the EPA Toxics Rule or Utility MACT, mandated under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Air Act. The rules would eliminate 91% of toxins like mercury, arsenic, chromium, lead, formaldehyde ...
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EPA Rule Shows Regulations That Kill Jobs Can Create New Ones
BusinessWeek
The rule sets emissions levels for toxins such as mercury, carbon monoxide and dioxins for about 13800 of the largest boilers. The administration says the regulation would cost businesses $3 billion as companies upgrade or replace their…
BPA chemical studied for behaviour changes
Nursing Times
This was a cohort study that aimed to examine the impact of gestational (during pregnancy) and childhood exposures to environmental toxins on child development (cognition, behaviour, growth and hearing). Environmental toxins include lead, mercury, ...
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IBAgreen Tackles Toxic Waste With Innovative Clean Technology
Equities.com
The byproduct of the process, called incinerator bottom ash is highly toxic and difficult to contain. Coal ash and IBA contain environmental toxins including heavy metals, arsenic, barium, cadmium, lead and mercury. Stockpiling and impounding the ash ...
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MINING: TOXINS ROB MORE THAN A DECADE OF LIFE FROM MILLIONS
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
It is a common misperception that disease is responsible for most illness, when in fact toxins and pollutants in the environment are a major source of illness and reduced life spans globally.…
swissinfo.ch
Toxins Rob More Than a Decade of Life from Millions
Inter Press Service
It is a common misperception that disease is responsible for most illness, when in fact toxins and pollutants in the environment are a major source of illness and reduced life spans globally. Unlike diseases, toxins…
Cleveland Scene Weekly
Michigan Ranked Among Worst For Mercury Pollution
WSBT-TV
An Environmental Protection Agency report said last year, Michigan power plants emitted about 2200 pounds of mercury pollution. When humans are exposed to the toxins, it can affect verbal skills, cause damage to attention and motor control, ...Read more
AFP
Excess heavy metals in 10% of China's land: report
AFP
Pollution from heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium is often blamed for poisoning entire villages and crop-growing land in China as factory bosses flout environmental laws and farmers use toxic fertilisers. ...
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Blast
The nasty business of shark finning
Blast
Besides being inhumane to sharks, consumption of shark fin poses a serious threat to human health since they contain an extremely high concentration of mercury and other toxins now omnipresent in our oceans. (Media credit/Nicholas Wang via Flickr) ...
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Houston Chronicle
Clean Air Act must be protected
Helena Independent Record
Under the guise of encouraging more economic analysis, the TRAIN Act indefinitely delays implementation of several proposed clean air rules including the Utility Air Toxics Rule, a widely popular proposal that would regulate mercury and other toxins ...Read more
Rep. Stivers isn't killing babies
Daily Caller
The ad, which shows a baby being spoon-fed dioxin, arsenic and mercury, has a voiceover that asserts that Stivers voted to “gut the Clean Air Act” and to “let polluters release toxins that cause cancer, asthma, heart attacks and even death. ...Read more
CBC.ca
BPA chemical studied for behaviour changes
NHS Choices
This was a cohort study, which aimed to examine the impact of gestational (during pregnancy) and childhood exposures to environmental toxins, including lead, mercury, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), environmental tobacco smoke and alcohol ...
BPA Exposure: Should Pregnant Women Be…
EPA can seal clean air future with tighter rules on cement
Tampabay.com
I asked Nugent in that column to consider young children who are most susceptible to the tons of mercury and other toxins cement plants pour into the atmosphere each year and to not vote for this measure.…
Treehugger
Tomblin, McGraw want court to delay EPA emissions standards
Daily Mail - Charleston
... to delay new US Environmental Protection Agency emissions standards for power plants. In March, the EPA proposed new rules that, for the first time, would regulate the emissions of mercury and other toxins from…
USA Today
EPA chief: Great Lakes harbor cleanups planned
Chicago Tribune
Nine river mouths and harbors contaminated with industrial toxins will be targeted for accelerated cleanups under an Obama administration program to deal with festering problems in the Great Lakes, ...
EPA chief: Great Lakes harbor cleanups plannedWall Street…
Ethanol Producer Magazine
Train Act threatens clean air and public health
Syracuse.com (blog)
The two amendments that I mentioned would delay two vital environmental rules indefinitely: the rule regulating mercury and air toxins, and the cross-state air pollution rule, which makes it easier for downwind states to achieve healthy…
Blast
Mercury and other toxins in tattoo inks?
Blast
By E - The Environmental Magazine As a result of a 2007 lawsuit brought by the American Environmental Safety Institute, two leading tattoo ink makers must now place warnings on their product containers, catalogs and websites to say that the…
Fort Worth Star Telegram
House passes bill to block broad Environmental Protection Agency rules
Washington Post
One of those sets of regulations, the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology Rule, would limit the discharge of acid gases and toxins such as mercury and arsenic from coal- and oil-fired power plants.…
Is job growth and protecting the environment mutually exclusive? | LETTER
PNW Local News
... because other limits on mercury and air toxins, greenhouse gases from power plants and other harmful emissions are also currently under debate. I would like to point out that supporting scientific findings from our…
