Particle pollution falls 10% in 4 years
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WASHINGTON -- The average level of a deadly form of air pollution dropped in the United States from 1999 to 2003 as new pollution controls made strides in battling the nation&#39;s air quality problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.
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Four years into an economic recovery, the number of people living in poverty has finally stopped climbing.
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Temperatures have risen more than two degrees on average over the past 10 years, and average snow levels have dropped 8.8 inches over the same period, and global warming is the reason why, say results from a study measuring conditions over a 40-year period.
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Science & environment: New figures released by Defra show a slight fall in total emissions in 2006
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European Union heads of government meeting in Brussels have agreed to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 20% from 1990 levels by the year 2020.Comment
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LOS ANGELES A new Environmental Protection Agency report says concentrations of dangerous air pollutants have declined in Southern California in the last five years.
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The greenback continues down its four-year path.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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Britain's manufacturing output has dropped 0.4 percent in October from the previous month.
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For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, Unicef reported.
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When it comes to air pollution, the smallest size can do the most harm. More than a decade ago, a pioneering study by Harvard's School of Public Health showed that one of the most dangerous forms of air pollution is particulate matter 10 microns (about 0.0004 inch) or less in size.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Pollution caused losses of 511.8 billion yuan (US$64 billion) in 2004, which was 3.05 per cent of the 16 trillion yuan (US$2 trillion) gross domestic product (GDP) that year.
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LOS ANGELES - Concentrations of one of the most dangerous air pollutants have declined in most of the country in the last five years, especially in Southern California and the Southeast, according to a report released by the US Environmental Protection
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Proposition O, the $500 million bond measure for cleaning up L.A.'s runoff pollution passed in November 2004. The City of Santa Monica passed the similar Measure V to clean up their stormwater in November 2006.
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Children who live in polluted communities are five times more likely to have clinically low lung function - less than 80 percent of the lung function expected for their age.
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Taxes designed to protect the environment would hit low income families the hardest, new research has found.
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With a little help from good weather, air in the Los Angeles was the cleanest on record this year, regulators said Thursday. Still, the region&#39;s air quality remained the worst