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Oh, That's Why They Call Them the Smokies
Average daily ozone pollution levels in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park over the last eight years have been nearly two times higher than pollution levels in Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, and Charlotte, according to a report by the National Parks and Conservation Association. Much of the pollution drifts over to the park from coal-fired power […]
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Reservations over Blackfeet Plan
Two hundred square miles of land on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation just east of Glacier National Park in Montana could soon become a huge industrial oil and natural gas development, covered with wells, roads, power lines, and processing stations. Despite the protest of the EPA and some enviros, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs […]
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Denver Bronc-itis
For the first time, Colorado officials last week issued an ozone pollution alert for Denver, normally a clean-air haven this time of year. The city’s summer ground-level ozone problem is arising just as it is putting its winter carbon-monoxide pollution problem behind it. The region is one of the areas in the country growing most […]
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Throwing Light on Throwing Lights
In a victory for recyclers and enviros, the EPA this week is set to ban the dumping of fluorescent light bulbs into landfills and require bulk buyers of the tubes to recycle them or throw them in special hazardous waste landfills. The new rules, which would reject a competing plan by light manufacturers to allow […]
