The company that owns a wood-burning power plant in Hopkinton wants to tear it down and build a new one that would generate almost three times as much power.
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Tags: Energy, power, power plantAn agreement between the state and Atlantic Richfield Co. signals the end of a 25-year-old lawsuit over environmental damage caused by a century of mining in southwestern Montana.
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Tags: mining, pollutionBeijing has struggled to reduce the sooty mix of ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide that often blankets the city at a level five times higher than WHO safety standard.
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Tags: airIt was the battle of the signs before the Toquop Energy Project public hearing in Mesquite on Thursday evening with those opposing the plant competing against a group of proponents wearing lighted billboards advertising the benefits of clean coal.
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Tags: Coal, EnergyState health investigators can’t figure out why some Salem-Keizer school bus drivers are getting sick, but they do have a number of general recommendations for improving air quality on the buses.
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Tags: air, healthThe city council has met resistance to its attempts to introduce a community energy system for downtown that produces clean heat from wood waste.
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Tags: Energy, wasteA big investment in sewer connections in Salvador, Brazil, has led to a steep decline in diarrhea, a major killer of kids.
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No tag for this post.Tobacco use could kill a billion people this century unless governments act now to reduce smoking, the UN said yesterday.
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Tags: smokingASI’s $500-million investment includes installing a baghouse which collects 98 to 99 per cent of particulate matter.
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No tag for this post.Increased use of ethanol and biodiesel could worsen global warming by forcing the worldwide conversion of forests and grasslands to crop production, according to two new studies.
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