Friday June 23rd 2006, 5:32 pm
The number of times air pollution readings have exceeded guidelines this winter are similar to last year despite this year's cold snap, council staff say.
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Air Pollution Levels Similar to Last Year (RedNova)
More passengers take BART for a free ride (East Bay Business Times)
Friday June 23rd 2006, 5:16 pm
The first free-ride offer by BART this year, offered June 22 because of high air pollution levels in the Bay Area, brought a 10 percent rise in ridership.
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D-FW likely to miss clean air deadline.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
The Dallas-Fort Worth region can’t meet a 2010 federal deadline for cleaning up its dirty air without taking extreme steps, according to the head of the state agency that regulates and permits industrial pollution.
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EPA cites Lyondell for release of smoke.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sited Lyondell Chemical in Illinois for emitting black smoke from its main flare on May 3.
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Huron County may be off EPA list.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving toward delisting Huron and 10 other counties for nonattainment of federal ozone standards.
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Ozone posing a threat.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
Ozone in Athens, GA reached unhealthy levels twice this week, and could again today.
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Bibb County air exceeded smog standards.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
Bibb County, Georgia's smog levels exceeded federal air pollution standards for the first time in 2006 on Wednesday.
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Season’s first ozone alert doesn’t bode too ill.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
The sun burned so hot and pollution hung in the air so long Thursday that for the first time this season, the young, old and weak of lungs were warned to take it easy.
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School bus company says plan will give Va. higher grade than C for pollutants.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
The Union of Concerned Scientists last month produced a nationwide School Bus Pollution Report Card that gave the state of Virginia a C for exhaust pollution.
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State board approves new regulations for certain power plants.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
A Virginia board has approved new regulations that would ease emissions standards for power plants and large factories that are being upgraded.
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Expansion plan could cut IR power plant pollution.
Friday June 23rd 2006, 4:00 pm
Air pollution from Delaware's dirtiest power plant would drop while electric generation would nearly double under a $1.6 billion expansion plan announced Wednesday by the plant's owner.
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