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Coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems and industrial landfills emit methane, which is more than 20 times as powerful as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere. Magnesium production releases sulfur hexafluoride. Sulfur hexafluoride is an even more potent greenhouse gas than than methane, and can stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years. This final rule amends the standing Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program requirements by adding these four additional source categories. Continue reading EPA: New greenhouse gas reporting requirements for four source categories
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Millions of gallons of water are required for gas shale drilling. Water discharged from the drilling process contains dissolved solids such as salts, sulfates and nitrates. High levels of total dissolved solids have been blamed for damaged industrial equipment and foul-smelling drinking water. Water companies support these regulations because their treatment plants cannot handle totally dissolved solids. The new rules would require natural gas companies that are returning discharged water to state waterways to treat the water so that no more than 500 parts per million of total dissolved solids would be released. If the new rules are approved, they will move on to the state House and Senate environmental committees for consideration. READ THIS STORY AT PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Continue reading Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Vote expected on Marcellus pollution |
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The New York Times profiles former Staff Sgt. Susan Clifford and the struggles she has faced since being exposed to toxic chemicals at a water treatment plant in Iraq. 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule last week that requires underground coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial waste landfills and magnesium production facilities that have C02 equivalent emissions that exceed 25,000 tons to begin collecting greenhouse gas emissions data on January 1, 2011.
To many, the August deadline to withdraw from Iraq might be seen as a “milestone”, but it does not indicate the true reality of the complexities of an unfinished mission in Iraq. More than 100 days after Iraq’s parliamentary elections, there are still disagreements over the formation of a new government; “when they signed that declaration, many of them did not even like one another.”
