Acid Rain Pollution Up 4 Percent in 2003
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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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Congested skies and bad weather last year resulted in more flight delays, more mishandled baggage and more complaints about airline service than in 2003, the government announced Thursday.
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By Manny Gamallo, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 9--SAND SPRINGS -- Water, sewer and trash customers will see a combined rate increase of 3 percent to 5 percent in next month's utility bills, city officials said.
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After Southern California experienced a horrible smog season in 2003, its cool, mild summer helped make this the cleanest smog season in 25 years, officials said Thursday.
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In its Water Indicator Report, the agency says the pollution of groundwater supplies has worsened in many areas over the past 12 months, reversing the trends reported in recent years.  However, there has been a slight improvement in the pollution levels in some rivers.
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By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer  The escalating level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic, government and independent scientists say.
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An increase in smog sparks a small but measurable increase in deaths, scientists report today in a study showing the strongest link yet between smog and damage to health.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers told federal investigators several years ago about contaminated dirt piles around the factory that in recent months were reported as newly discovered, 32-year employee Chris Naas says.
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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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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere.
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Strong winds in the upper atmosphere drew down a near-record amount of ozone-destroying gases last year, according to a new study, and such winds may become more frequent as Earth heats up.
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Increases in air pollution caused by cars, power plants and industry can be directly linked to higher death rates in U.S. cities, a study said on Tuesday.
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Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centers expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank show.
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NEW YORK  - When ozone goes up in cities,  even for short periods at levels below current regulatory  standards, so does the death rate, according to an article in  Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A group of Japanese researchers has found that carbon dioxide levels over the Antarctica rose by over 2.6 percent from six years ago &#151; the first such detection of an increase in a "greenhouse" gas above the southern continent, group members said Tuesday.
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On smoggy days, deaths from heart and respiratory ailments and other diseases rise, causing several thousand more people throughout the United States to die each year, according to a study published Tuesday that links air pollution and mortality in 95
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Racist incidents reported to the police have risen 40% in the past three years, a report claims.