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"Unsustainable" cities need radical rethink
Singapore :: Singapore | about 12 hours ago
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Singapore in an effort to produce a template for the modern sustainable city. Gerhard Schmitt. "Cities provide living space for more than half of the world's population, and this rate is set to rise. They produce half of the economic output but also half...
Tags: Gerhard Schmitt, Singapore, ETHZ, Zurich, Urban planning, Sustainable city, City, Pollution, Urban studies and planning, Central Europe, Switzerland, Environment
Panel of experts: County should revisit tabled toxic-air proposals
Louisville :: KY :: USA | about 14 hours ago
Credibility In Texas, which perennially gets bad air quality grades due to oil and chemical industry emissions, air toxics guidelines approved in 2006 set emissions limits low enough to prevent short- or long-term human health effects. Houston even has its own "Air...
Tags: Allegheny County Health Department, air toxics, air pollutants, board member, toxics guidelines, Louisville, air quality, Health Board, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chemical engineering, Emission standards, National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, Pollution, Volatile organic compound, Air pollution, Pollution in the United States, Air dispersion modeling, Environment
Former scrapyard tested for toxins (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 1 day ago
Credibility An Invercargill industrial site believed to have been contaminated with toxic chemicals is being investigated by Environment Southland. The Prestonville site was potentially contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from old transformers when...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Pollution, Munisport, Persistent organic pollutants, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Soil contamination, Disaster Accident, Environment, Law Crime
Victim killed after complaining to neighbours
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Rowan Biram, 38, reportedly had his throat slashed and was left to die in the front yard of a house in Alamein Road, Heidelberg West, about 11.50pm. Police said Mr Biram went to the house to "investigate a noise". A patrol car had been to the house earlier...
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Constable, Sheriffs, Law Crime, Pollution, Crimestoppers, Noise regulation, Noise pollution, Acoustics, Audiology
Valley still prone to bad-air days
Le Roy :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Monday, November 23, 2009 The quality of the Grand Valley’s air has been improving, in general, for the past seven years. But on those rare days when the air does get bad — typically during cold-weather inversions —...
Tags: Mesa County, grand junction, junction daily, daily sentinel, Le Roy, Air Quality Index, Inversion, Pollution, Dust, Air pollution, Particulate, Smog, Environment, Tire, Waste management, Earthship, Landfill, Mesa County Colorado, Recyclable materials, Eisenach, Martin Luther, Holm Pinneberg, Holm, Budgets, Meis, Robert Acquafresca
'13.1 million people are internal migrants'
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 days ago
Credibility Almost 10 percent of the population are internal migrants, the ratio more than quadrupling over the past six decades, a Dhaka University professor said Saturday. "Internal migration occurs in 9.6 percent of the population," Prof AKM Nurunnabi of the population...
Tags: Dhaka University, air pollutant, unnatural deaths, Bangladesh, Dhāka, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Bengali renaissance, Social Issues, Environment, Compressed natural gas, Fuels, Auto rickshaw, Pollution, Air pollution, Vehicles for hire, Chemical engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Alternative propulsion
Jakarta Bay pollution reaches critical level: Governor
Jakarta Bay pollution reaches critical level: Governor The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 11/21/2009 9:41 PM | Jakarta Starting...
Tags: Indonesia, indonesian, Jakarta, Pollution, Environment
Vigo Air Pollution Control to be dismantled
Terre Haute :: IN :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility A revised county air pollution control ordinance that would have provided for collection of fees from manufacturers with a federal air permit is dead, dismantling the Vigo County Air Pollution Control Department. The Vigo County Board of Health on Friday...
Tags: Vigo County Council, Paul Mason, Air Pollution Control Department, Vigo Air Pollution Control, Terre Haute, Terre Haute metropolitan area, Vigo County Indiana, Pollution, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environment, Chemical engineering, Air pollution, National Road
What about the other polluters? --
Port of Spain :: Trinidad and Tobago | 2 days ago
Credibility Now that the Tobacco Bill has been given the green light in the Senate, I hope that lawbreakers are penalised. This said, I find that the bill should be sanitised in terms of the extreme reprimand for selling one cigarette and smoking 15 metres from a...
Tags: noise polluters, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Occupational safety and health, Noise pollution, Industrial noise, Noise regulation, Roadway noise, Noise, Chemical engineering, Pollution, Environment, Disaster Accident
Coastal Commission staff recommends hearing Marina Center project appeals
Eureka :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility A total of three appeals were submitted to the commission on the coastal development permit -- one by Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Ralph Faust, one by a trio of local environmental groups and another by coastal commissioners Mike Stone and Ross...
Tags: coastal development, Marina Center, development permit, Eureka, Eureka California, Timber industry, Stormwater, Humboldt Bay, California Coastal Commission, Humboldt County California, Water pollution, Environmental soil science, Environment, Water, Wetland, Environment of California, Pollution
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