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Nearly half the US population still breathes polluted air, report says
High ozone levels and particulate matter plague 138 million Americans, despite recent improvements, American Lung Association-backed study shows. InsideClimate News April 30, 2015
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Biotechnology and fish farming: Gas guzzlers
A biotechnology firm in Menlo Park, California proposes to take advantage of the rock-bottom price of methane, a consequence of the spread of natural-gas fracking, to breed a bacterium en masse as a substitute for the fish-meal such farmers now feed to their charges. Economist. 23 April 2015.
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Pennsylvania officials say emissions increased from expanding natural gas industry
Emissions from the expanding natural gas drilling industry increased in four of six air pollution categories in 2013, according to new data released by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania. 21 April 2015.
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Air pollution increases at Pennsylvania’s natural gas sites
Sulfur dioxide emissions jumped 57 percent from 2012 to 2013 at the state’s natural gas production sites, according to data released today by the Department of Environmental Protection. StateImpact Pennsylvania, April 20 2015
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N. Carolina lifts fracking ban and punts on toxic air emissions
Seventy-two pages of oil-and-gas regulations went into effect when the moratorium was lifted, but regulations on air pollution weren’t included. InsideClimate News. 3 April 2015.
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Shale crews being watched from above as emissions levels tested
There is an eye in the sky above U.S. shale oil and natural gas basins. Well, more like a nose. Bloomberg News. 2 April 2015.
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Let’s have a chat about gas flaring
I want to talk to you about North Dakota. San Francisco Chronicle, California. 24 March 2015. Subscription Required
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Laurence Tribe, Obama’s legal mentor, attacks EPA power plant rule
Opponents of the President Barack Obama’s climate change plan are bringing out the heavy artillery, turning to a former hero of the green movement to lay out a legal plan to bring down EPA’s upcoming rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Politico. 20 March 2015.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/epa-power-plant-rule-laurence-tribe-116258
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Study raises concerns about toxic oil and gas emissions in California air
An infrared camera, air sampling and surveys reveal that methane and toluene are among the contaminants showing up in Kern and Ventura counties. InsideClimate News. 26 January 2015.
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Inside North Dakota’s latest fracking problem
From his driveway, Tom Wheeler’s view of North Dakota’s sprawling grasslands seems endless. Fields of soy, wheat and canola stretch to the horizon in all directions. But as drillers flock to the state to cash in on North Dakota’s booming shale play, that horizon has become increasingly marked by […]
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