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Assemblyman Perez's Save Our Sea campaign includes three bills
SACRAMENTO — Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez, D-Coachella, announced recently that he has launched a multi-level campaign to kick start Salton Sea restoration. Titled the Save Our Sea campaign, Perez introduced Assembly Bill 71, the Salton Sea...Tags: Alternative Energy, Water Supply, Environmental Issues, Accounting and Auditing, Energy Saving
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DHHS Cancels Air Quality Health Advisory
Channel 2 NewsThe Department of Health and Human Services is canceling the air quality health advisory that was issued Tuesday, January 15. Staff from the Municipal Air Quality Program determined that particulate concentrations in the air have reached a level low...Tags: Health, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution
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Assembly committee to hold oversight hearing on Salton Sea
Assemblymen Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, and V. Manuel Pérez, D-Coachella, will hold a state oversight hearing on current efforts and future opportunities to restore the Salton Sea. The hearing is scheduled for Feb. 22 at the North Shore Community Center in...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, University of California, San Diego, Natural Resource Industry
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No-burn alert in effect in areas of Orange and Los Angeles counties
L.A. NOWPeople in certain areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties are being advised not to burn wood or fire logs in indoor or outdoor fireplaces as part of a no-burn alert in effect until midnight Wednesday. The area stretches from...... -
Imperial Valley to benefit from Salton Sea air monitoring stations
Staff WriterIf all goes according to plan, two air monitoring stations will be measuring hydrogen sulfide levels at the Salton Sea late this summer and sharing the data with the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District. The South Coast Air Quality Management...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution
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Clearing Beijing's air
Ever wonder what life in the United States would be like without a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? The people of China have gotten a whiff of what happens when there are minimal pollution controls, and they are choking on it. That the air in...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Mining, Health Organizations, Fiction, Politics
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EPA Hits Shell with Air Quality Violations
Channel 2 NewsAs Shell Alaska looks to assessing damage to its recovered drilling rig the Kulluk, the Environmental Protection Agency announced recently the company violated several air quality permits during its operations in the Arctic last year. Two ships were the...Tags: U.S. Coast Guard, Weather, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Weather Reports
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UAF Lecture to Focus on Interior Alaska Air Quality
Channel 2 NewsA weekend lecture at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will focus on the chronic problems with air quality that winter brings to interior Alaska. UAF officials say professor Nicole Molders will speak at the free lecture that's scheduled for 2 p.m....Tags: Environmental Issues, Health and Safety at School, Environmental Pollution
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Air quality agency issues Southland no-burn alert
L.A. NOWMuch of Los Angeles is being asked to hold off lighting wood-burning fireplaces or open pits starting at midnight Saturday and continuing for 24 hours to avoid releasing unhealthy soot that becomes trapped in the air by a wintertime weather...... -
Environmental group says don't "blow" this opportunity when it comes to wind energy incentives
reporter"Our message today to Congress, don't throw wind off the fiscal cliff," says Sarah Bucci, Environment Virginia. The clock is ticking and this group doesn't want to be caught under the buzzer. Explains Bucci, "Incentives are benefits in place to build...Tags: Tax Credits, Fiscal Cliff, Taxation, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Renewable Energy
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Smog Prompts Ban on Wood-Burning Fireplaces in Parts of L.A.
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Officials have banned the use of wood-burning fireplaces and fire pits, after an unusual smog pattern prompted air pollution warnings in downtown Los Angeles and parts of the San Fernando Valley. "We are experiencing unhealthy air...Tags: Weather Warnings, Punishment, Fines, Environmental Issues, Respiratory Disease
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Energy experts say oil/gas drilling can be made cleaner
PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. About 800 miles away on the plains of north Texas, there's a drilling boom, too, but some air pollution levels have declined....
Tags: Energy Resources, Science and Technology, American Petroleum, Environmental Issues, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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