Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
Of the 10 top energy users, the US is also the world's largest and will remain so for at least another 15 years.
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Ask how we as individuals can reduce our own carbon footprints.
Influencing healthy changes in your community.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
Whether you live in a city, a suburb or a small rural town, the way your community is designed affects your health.
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Can you clean and still be green?
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
In our quest to rid our homes of germs and dirt, we are unwittingly unleashing a host of chemicals on our families, which studies have shown can cause blindness, asthma, birth defects, reproductive disorders and even cancer, and can severely impair indoor air quality.
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California dreamin.’
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
California wants to treat carbon dioxide, a product of the combustion of gasoline and said to be the major cause of global warming, as a pollutant. The only way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is by burning less gasoline to start with.
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Smoking bills advance in Senate.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
Smoking is a hot topic in this year's General Assembly. Several bills were introduced in the Senate that either ban or regulate smoking in Virginia.
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Truckee beating back particulate pollution.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
The 800-pound gorilla of Truckee air pollution is particulate matter, coming from wood stoves and fireplaces, wind-blown dust and road sanding, and open fires, said Joe Fish, deputy air pollution control officer for the Sierra Air Quality Management District.
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IDEM commissioner gets statehouse grilling.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
State Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Thomas Easterly faced a barrage of questions Wednesday from legislators convinced changes at the agency will make it tougher to protect Hoosiers from environmental lawbreakers.
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New system set up for bad air alerts.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
Ozone Action Days are now a thing of the past in West Michigan, but that doesn't mean air pollution has been eliminated.
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Public weighs in on nuke plants.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
While the meeting held by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was for comments on the environmental review of a proposed nuclear power plant, it quickly became an appraisal of the current reactors and the new plant’s potential to help the economy.
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Enforcement could stall idling bylaw.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
Fears that an anti-idling bylaw would be impossible to enforce could derail efforts to use stricter methods to hit clean air targets.
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Tanzania develops low carbon economy.
Saturday January 31st 2009, 5:00 pm
The WHO has described indoor air pollution from smoke fumes as a worse threat to life than TB or malaria across many developing countries, where the money to improve cooking conditions for the average family simply doesn’t exist.
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