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Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Photo: Steve Snodgrass , Flickr, CC Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim that the Exxon refinery, which operates on the Gulf coast, has violated federal air pollution laws “thousands of times”. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Exxon Sued for Illegally Emitting 8 Million Pounds of Pollution

Photo: Steve Snodgrass , Flickr, CC Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim that the Exxon refinery, which operates on the Gulf coast, has violated federal air pollution laws “thousands of times”. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Two Years After the Tennessee Spill, Coal Ash Still Pollutes Nationwide

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Two Years After the Tennessee Spill, Coal Ash Still Pollutes Nationwide

A pond in Meigs County contaminated with coal ash Image: Elisa Young/Meigs Citizens Action Now! Elisa Young became active against coal when she started wondering what was making people in her town so sick. She lives in Racine, a town in Meigs County, Ohio, which is not near any major cities, but is near several major power plants. Four plants are located within 12 miles from her farm—although there is a push to open more—and there’s coal ash everywhere. So she started to put two and two together. We’re approaching the two-year anniversary of the

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Air Pollution Raises Obesity Risk For Young Animals, Regardless of Diet

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Air Pollution Raises Obesity Risk For Young Animals, Regardless of Diet

photo: Eddy Van 3000 / Creative Commons Now this research concerns itself with non-human animals (mice specifically), but it does provide interesting insight into the non-diet factors which may be at play in soaring obesity rates and the way environmental pollution influences development: A new study shows that exposure to polluted air early in life, at levels that correspond to the amoun… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists

Photo: mauricholas/ Maureen Leong-Kee , Flickr, CC Pollution has long been known to bear various impacts on animals’ reproductive behavior . But rarely is the effect so pronounced as what scientists have observed happening to bird populations that ingest the poisonous metal compound methylmercury. Researchers have found that when even low levels of the compound enter their diets, male birds choose to attempt to mate with other males, and snub females. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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1/3 of Lead Air Pollution Found in San Francisco Originated in Asia

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 1/3 of Lead Air Pollution Found in San Francisco Originated in Asia

Photo: eutrophication&hypoxia , Flickr, CC Regulating pollution is a notoriously difficult enterprise, and that’s largely because particulates or emissions spewed in one place may end up impacting folks thousands of miles away. In a new study, scientists have gone a long way in underscoring the truly transient nature of pollution. They’ve found that about “a third of the airborne lead particles recently collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Istanbul Treats Its Famous and Beautiful Bosphorus Strait Like a Trash Can, Turkish NGO Says

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Istanbul Treats Its Famous and Beautiful Bosphorus Strait Like a Trash Can, Turkish NGO Says

Istanbul’s Bosphorus: It looks nice and clean. Photo: Jennifer Hattam . From the deck of a boat bobbing on its surface, Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait seems to flow fresh and strong, breathing air and energy into the city it divides into two continents. When anchored in a secluded cove near the Black Sea end of the strait, it even feels clean enough to swim in. But what lies underneath the waves is apparently another matter altogether…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art (Slideshow)

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art (Slideshow)

The Ganges River Delta. Photo credit: Image courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will ever experience. Besides their unique position, these satellites are capable of discerning details the human eye misses. The intense detail captured by the Landsat-7 satellite—and the thermal gradients illustrated by

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Pittsburgh Bans Fracking, Eliminates Some Rights of Corporate Personhood With New Ordinance

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Pittsburgh Bans Fracking, Eliminates Some Rights of Corporate Personhood With New Ordinance

photo: Joey Gannon / Creative Commons Following in the footsteps of tiny Licking Township in taking action against fracking when the state of Pennsylvania won’t, Pittsburgh has banned corporations drilling for natural gas within the city limits. As

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New Map Shows Air Pollution Throughout the World

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New Map Shows Air Pollution Throughout the World

Image via NASA Scientists have long known about the life-threatening impact of air pollution — but up until now, tracking it globally with any accuracy had been out of reach. With new satellite-based imaging, however, researchers are getting their first peek at how particulate matter is distributed around the world, and in places where air pollution had been difficult to measure with any accuracy before — an important step towards … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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