Haze of confusion over most-polluted city list
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A U.S. group&#39;s report naming the Chinese city of Tianjin as one of the world&#39;s most polluted places apparently confused the large northern port with a notorious lead-processing town in the country&#39;s east.
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Smoggy, sooty, unhealthy air returned to settle over the Washington area this week, setting off Code Orange pollution alerts and signaling that -- even after decades of cleanup efforts -- summertime here can still mean irritants in every breath.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 30--Hampton Roads and greater Richmond were officially removed from the national list of smog-troubled regions Tuesday, evidence that air quality is getting cleaner, due mostly to new fuels and pollution-cutting technologies.
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By Rob Pavey  The politicians have spoken. Now it's the scientists' turn.  One of the state Environmental Protection Division's top hazardous waste officials will tour Hyde Park today in hopes of learning more about the neighborhood.
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By Liu Weifeng  Leave the car at home and take a bus.   That's the message being pushed by environmental experts in a campaign to clear the air in China's cities.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Jun. 12--VICTORVILLE -- When it comes to a new power plant north of the city, California Energy Commission officials are most concerned with air and water quality.
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Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  May 26--The federal Environmental Protection Agency continues to press the state over last-minute changes that appear to weaken an ozone clean-up for Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Pinpointing pollutant sources is an important part of the ongoing battle to improve air quality and to understand its impact on climate.
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Air pollution levels in the UK are too high to meet key objectives and may harm human health, an expert tells the BA science festival.
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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.
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Dirty, polluted, congested and razed of  many old buildings -- but Beijing has still been chosen as  China&#39;s most beautiful city.
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By MICHAEL CASEY YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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The legacy from environmental irresponsibility still hangs heavily over the city of Bhopal in India. Two decades after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster, the site still needs to be cleaned up.
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For the worldâs Olympians, Beijingâs air is a performance issue. For the cityâs estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue.
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UP to 15,000 fish are to be released back in to the Tyne in Newcastle after Environment Agency officers spent the past few years tackling the the city's dreadful pollution problem.  (c) 2006 People, The; London. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 5--Three Benton County sites that long have been known to be contaminated are now on a state Department of Ecology list of hazardous sites planned for cleanup.   The Benton City Maintenance Yard, Chevron Chemical Co.