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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s He and Shari are active in the Pediatric Cancer Action Network, a grassroots advocacy and support group in Nebraska.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010. Exceedances of the 8-hour ozone NAAQS are predicted to decline in nonattainment areas by 14 percent with CAIR controls in place in 2015. EPA CAIR Modeling Analysis, March 2005. Eugene M.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

There have been more than 3,000 spills since 2005, with the number peaking in 2011 at 484. plans to invest $240 million to expand the crude slate and improve pollution control at its 502,500 barrel-per-day refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the state’s governor on Wednesday.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., It is the biggest shareholder and operator of the Yadana gas pipeline in Burma (now Myanmar) where the army was accused of forced labor and killing in the Tennaserim peninsula. Total to pay $2.9

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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa

Corp Watch

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., It is the biggest shareholder and operator of the Yadana gas pipeline in Burma (now Myanmar) where the army was accused of forced labor and killing in the Tennaserim peninsula. Total to pay $2.9

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