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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison

Corp Watch

PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. grams per mile (gpm) for NOx. compliance option.

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The evolution of US NOx standards for cars

Environment, Law, and History

The initial standard, set in the 1970 Clean Air Act, was 3.1 That means that any increase in fuel efficiency automatically helps a company meet the pollution standards as well. Theoretically, a car could have no pollution control at all but get such phenomenal mileage that it met the pollution standard.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Policy News: January 31, 2022

ESA

This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Particulate Matter Panel (Feb.

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