Gov't Plans Pollution Investigation for 2008
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By Sun Xiaohua  China will launch its first nationwide investigation into the sources of environmental pollution beginning in 2008, according to the top environmental official.
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Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state&#39;s latest effort to curb air pollution. By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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By David Gordon  The DUP Minister revealed her intentions after receiving a copy of a landmark report yesterday.  The study, by a Government-appointed panel, recommended that the DoE's environmental protection powers should be transferred to a new independent agency.
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Dirty water and air kill 500,000 a year, says report, as environment chief points finger at corrupt officials
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An inquiry into the impact of climate change is to get under way at the Scottish Parliament.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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After years of stalemate, Washington decision makers are poised this year to impose new federal requirements aimed at curbing air pollution from power plants that each year cuts short the lives of 24,000 Americans.
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Gov. Jim Doyle proposes taxing big oil companies more than $270 million over the next two years to help pay for the state's transportation needs.
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Emissions of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain, rose 4 percent in 2003, but probably will not compromise long-term air quality goals, the government reported Wednesday.
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued rules yesterday that will dramatically cut toxic fumes from cars and trucks over the next 25 years.
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Hundreds of millions of people fall ill every year or die prematurely from air and water pollution caused by China's breakneck economic growth, one of the world's leading economic thinktanks has concluded following an 18-month investigation.
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By ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITER  The federal government wants to let companies in North Jersey and around the nation quadruple the amount of toxic chemicals they can use without reporting details.  The change could save businesses millions, the government said.
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Test results on fuel which is said to have caused problems for thousands of drivers are due to be released.
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President Bush will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with "an aggressive push" to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, senior administration officials said Saturday.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Scientists planned to examine oil samples and the Coast Guard issued subpoenas in an investigation into who caused at least 1,000 gallons of oil to spill in Puget Sound, officials said.