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    Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Senate Republicans question EPA nominee Gina McCarthy

    WASHINGTON — President Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, faced tough questioning from Senate Republicans at her confirmation hearing Thursday, in a clear signal to the White House that they will continue fighting environmental regulations as vigorously as they did in the first term.
    WASHINGTON — President Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, faced tough questioning from Senate Republicans at her confirmation hearing Thursday, in a clear signal to the White House that they will continue...

    Tags: Environmental Politics, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Barack Obama, Metal and Mineral

  2. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. California's environmental laws: Job creators, not job killers

    Who knew that being a smoggy place might be good for business? Gov. Jerry Brown is in China, and one of the things he’s pitching is California’s expertise in dealing with smog. Because if there’s one thing we have in common with the...

    Tags: Executive Branch, Water Supply, Environmental Issues, China, Environmental Politics

  4. Apr 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. China pollution may hold silver lining for California

    BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago.
    BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...

    Tags: Passenger Cars, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, China, Plant Openings

  6. Apr 10, 2013 |Story| HB Independent
  7. Mailbag: Saving the Earth hardly starts with fire pits

    Melville tells us in the opening lines of "Moby Dick:" "Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries — stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all...

    Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, National Government, Business, Environmental Pollution

  8. Apr 8, 2013 |Story| Daily Pilot
  9. Commentary: Proposed bonfire ban is not based in sound science

    As the Great Bonfire War of 2013 continues, we can agree to one thing: If beach fire rings really do generate demonstrably dangerous levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions, they probably need to go or be reduced ("Fire ring hearing may be delayed,...

    Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Standards, Science and Technology

  10. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| KTUU
  11. Street Sweeping Crews Could Be Working Until Mid-June

    The Municipality of Anchorage has crews out sweeping up gravel left over from the winter nearly 24-hours a day and crews could still on the streets for another eight weeks, according to Street Maintenance Foreman Paul Vanlandingham.
    Channel 2 News
    The Municipality of Anchorage has crews out sweeping up gravel left over from the winter nearly 24-hours a day and crews could still on the streets for another eight weeks, according to Street Maintenance Foreman Paul Vanlandingham. He says...

    Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution

  12. Apr 24, 2013 | Los Angeles Times
  13. ‘Smog catcher’

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    Health officials demonstrate electrostatic precipitator, or "smog catcher."...
  14. Apr 29, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times
  15. Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?

    It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police officers making Los Angeles safe. What you don't often hear from these candidates, however, is a thoughtful vision for the Port of Los Angeles.
    It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...

    Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Political Candidates, Environmental Issues, Panama

  16. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Bay Area air pollution reaches Devils Postpile National Monument

    That fresh, pine-scented mountain air that you happily breathe in the Sierra Nevada could be hazardous to your health.
    That fresh, pine-scented mountain air that you happily breathe in the Sierra Nevada could be hazardous to your health. Samples taken by federal scientists in Devils Postpile National Monument, southeast of Yosemite National Park, show that ozone...

    Tags: Yosemite National Park, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environmental Pollution

  18. Apr 23, 2013 |Story| Daily Pilot
  19. O.C. supervisors oppose proposed ban on fire rings

    The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday formally opposed a call by air-quality regulators to snuff out beach bonfires in much of Southern California. Supervisors urged the South Coast Air Quality Managment District to drop a proposed ban on...

    Tags: Allan R. Mansoor, Environmental Issues, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Elections

  20. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| Orlando Sentinel
  21. Region's air generally healthy, though Orange County's ozone levels not very good

    The air is typically terrible in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. By contrast, most every breath is refreshingly clean in Bellingham, Wash.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; and Asheville, N.C.
    The air is typically terrible in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington. By contrast, most every breath is refreshingly clean in Bellingham, Wash.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; and Asheville, N.C. Somewhere in between is Florida, where the air quality is decent —...

    Tags: Orlando, DeLand, Hillsborough County, Environmental Issues, American Lung Association

  22. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  23. Lung Association: Smog Hits Shoreline Hardest, Though State's Air Getting Better Overall

    There is more smog and soot along the shoreline than elsewhere in the state — a fact of life in Connecticut for years, confirmed once again in a yearly report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
    The Hartford Courant
    There is more smog and soot along the shoreline than elsewhere in the state — a fact of life in Connecticut for years, confirmed once again in a yearly report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. Fairfield and New Haven counties...

    Tags: Windham (Windham, Connecticut), Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Environmental Pollution

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