POLLUTION popularity and POLLUTION trends

WHITING, Ind. (AP) -- BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to install $400 million in new air pollution controls at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery and pay an $8 million fine under a deal announced Wednesday with the government and environmental groups....

The hordes of bark beetles that have bored their way through more than 6 billion trees in the western U.S. and British Columbia since the 1990s do more than damage and kill stately pine, spruce and other trees. A new study finds that these pests can make trees release up to 20 times more of the organic substances that foster haze and air pollution in forested areas. It appears in ACS' journal E...

Three major car companies fined hundreds of thousands of shekels for failure to publish correct air pollution data.

A robotic fish that can monitor water pollution in harbours is being tested in Spain.

The link between prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood lung growth and respiratory ailments is well established, and now a new study suggests that these prenatal exposures can be especially serious for children with asthma.

Cutting air pollution has an instant impact on heart health, experts believe, after reviewing studies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Refusing to rule out civil disobedience, band vows to fight construction of pit mine that is key to Christy Clark’s job plan unless water pollution risks are minimized

Millénaires, les liens qui unissent la Chine et le charbon constituent un piège pour la modernisation du pays. La catastrophe écologique annoncée et les drames sociaux liés à l'extraction du minerai conduisent le gouvernement à miser sur une modernisation et une diversification des sources d'énergie. (...) / Chine, Écologie, Énergie, Industrie, Santé, Travail, Charbon, Environnement, Pollution...

While dangerous pollutants still threaten the health of millions of Americans, the United States has made great strides in clearing the air, according to the American Lung Association.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today....

Air pollution from exhaust fumes kills more than twice as many people as road accidents in Britain, experts claim.

In India's clogged cities, some view auto rickshaws—motorized three-wheelers—as a solution to pollution and congestion. But these "tuk tuks" struggle to compete with the allure of car ownership.

Hamilton, Bermuda (ots/PRNewswire) - Bei OILs Jahreshauptversammlung (JHV) 2012, die am 28. März 2012 im Fairmont Southampton Hotel auf den Bermudas stattfand, gab OIL einen neuen OIL/OPOL-Zusatz bekannt, der es Mitgliedern ermöglicht, die OIL-Police als Zertifikat für den Nachweis …

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has been accused of "public health fraud" for ordering the use of "dust suppressants" to keep down pollution where official monitoring is carried out and thereby avoid millions of pounds in European Union fines.

Fears were growing yesterday that a naked flame on a leaking gas rig could spark a massive explosion and lead to a major pollution incident in the North Sea.

Lawyers representing a Nigerian fishing community take oil firm Shell to court in London over alleged unpaid compensation for recent oil spills.

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Pollution . Bruxelles menace de riposter si la Chine persiste à sanctionner des entreprises de l’UE.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Lead emission from factories and the natural environment in China's manufacturing heart of Guangdong has poisoned 160 children, Xinhua said on Sunday in the country's latest case of unfettered industrial toxins.

ndogg writes with news that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has counterattacked those critical of conservative views on science, saying that they're 'anti-science' themselves. From a CBS report: "In his remarks Monday, Santorum went beyond his usual discussion of the importance of increasing domestic energy production to deliver a blistering attack on environmental activists. He...

A study of pollution in 34 Chinese cities has found that the electricity generated by power stations to drive electric vehicles leads to more fine particle emissions than petrol-powered transport.

New air pollution reduction projects are on tap in Coachella Valley.

Dans le sud du pays, la ville de Liuzhou et ses 4 millions d'habitants sont menacés par une pollution au cadmium, un métal hautement toxique. Des…

Residents of a south China town have been panic buying bottled water after media reports of excessive levels of the carcinogenic metal cadmium.

Man-made pollution is acidifying the world's oceans at unprecedented rates and threatening sea life, an international study reports Monday.

BEIJING — In a rare bow to public pressure, the Beijing local government has begun using a more stringent measure for air quality, and the first publicly announced readings Thursday showed the air was “hazardous” in at least two areas of the polluted capital city. Read full article >>

After investing $885 million on retrofits, Constellation Energy in Maryland is frustrated by a court-ordered delay on tighter pollution rules.

WASHINGTON — A federal court Friday put on hold a controversial Obama administration regulation aimed at reducing power plant pollution in 27 states that contributes to unhealthy air downwind. More than a dozen electric power companies, municipal power plant operators and states had sought to delay the rules until the litigation plays out. A federal appeals court in Washington approved their re...

Pollution, over-exploitation and the spread of non-native species are causing a decline in Ireland's biodiversity comparable to the major extinctions in history, according to a new study.

L'échouage du cargo maltais TK Bremen, qui a provoqué une pollution au fioul...

Fracking a controversial method of improving oil and gas well productivity is implicated for first time for groundwater pollution.

Corporate resistance and ambiguous court decisions could hamper federal efforts to protect wetlands, marshes and shorelines from pollution.

After meeting with Chinese environmental groups Tuesday, Apple said it plans to hire a third-party auditing firm to investigate 15 of its suppli…

Sooty brown cloud cools water and lowers wind speeds, study finds