EPA Imposes Benzene Curb
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Oregon and Washington residents exposed to toxic benzene levels can breathe easier as the EPA finally forces refineries and vehicle manufacturers to reduce the pollutant. In Autopia.
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The California Air Resources Board on Friday approved a regulation to require that automakers sell vehicles with reduced emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2009, a move opposed by car companies that could eventually add more than $1,000 to the price of a
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Riding popular Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#39;s endorsement, state air quality regulators are expected to step up a campaign against global warming that could spark sticker-shock in auto showrooms over the next 10 years.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reduce diesel exhaust from trains and ships, a move supported by some environmentalists.
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Federal scientists want to tighten smog standards, a step that would allow tens of millions of Americans to breathe easier but also would clash with President Bush's plan to wean Americans away from gasoline
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By Zhan Lisheng  GUANGZHOU: Guangdong Province is trying to curb industrial pollution by preventing cities with excessive pollutant emissions being granted new investment projects.
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Even "safe" levels of benzene damage  immune system cells and could lead to cancer or other problems,  U.S. and Chinese researchers reported on Thursday.
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A new study found that white blood cell counts were lowered in workers exposed to less than 1 ppm of the chemical benzene (part benzene per million parts air).
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Even &quot;safe&quot; levels of benzene damage immune system cells and could lead to cancer or other problems, US and Chinese researchers reported on Thursday.
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - Federal scientists want to tighten smog standards, a step that would allow tens of millions of Americans to breathe easier. The plan also would run head-on into President Bush's hopes of weaning Americans from gasoline by using more smog-producing ethanol.
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By Lee Bergquist and Larry Sandler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  May 27--As air quality continues to improve, Wisconsin is poised to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lift major regulations on dozens of the biggest businesses in the eastern part of the state.
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Exposure to even small amounts of benzene may pose a health risk, say scientists.
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California air-quality regulators on Friday adopted the nation&#39;s first-ever rules to reduce car emissions linked to global warming, an action likely to prompt
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Even small amounts of benzene exposure can lower your white blood cell count according to a new study published to day in the journal, &#39;Science.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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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 ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency granted California long-awaited permission Monday to slash emissions from lawnmowers and other small-engine machines, a change it will seek nationally next year.