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Tracking the long-distance travels of dust
Spring stirs pollen, and also dust — high-flying dust that's blown thousands of miles to reach North America in greater amounts than scientists have known before, with potential impact on the climate and air quality. Mineral dust rises from dry...
Tags: North America, Colleges and Universities, University of Washington, Science, Space Programs
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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...
Tags: U.S. Congress, John Barrasso, Parties and Movements, Ecosystems, Politics
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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: Environmental Pollution, China, Environmental Issues, Water Supply, Plant Openings
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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. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...
Tags: Beijing (China), Regional Authority, Conservation, Water Supply, Environmental Cleanup
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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: United Nations, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Auction Service, National Government
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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: Standards, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology
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‘Smog catcher’
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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...
Tags: Shipping Service, Suez Canal, Elections, Los Angeles International Airport, Politics
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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. Samples taken by federal scientists in Devils Postpile National Monument, southeast of Yosemite National Park, show that ozone...
Tags: Standards, Environmental Pollution, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Ecosystems
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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: Environmental Pollution, Allan R. Mansoor, Elections, Environmental Issues, Politics
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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. Somewhere in between is Florida, where the air quality is decent —...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Orange County (Florida), American Lung Association, Environmental Issues, Hillsborough County
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Lung Association: Smog Hits Shoreline Hardest, Though State's Air Getting Better Overall
The Hartford CourantThere 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: Metal and Mineral, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Mining, Litchfield County, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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