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| Surrounded by air pollution. |
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Once a refuge for people desperate to breathe the clean desert air, metropolitan Phoenix now battles the smog and smudged horizons the refugees were trying to escape. The pollution clogs lungs, aggravates asthma and traps people with respiratory diseases in their homes when conditions worsen. |
| Sludge with human waste sparks debate in Lehigh Valley. |
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Thomas Shetayh and other Lynn Township residents want neighboring farmers to stop using sewage sludge to grow crops, a practice residents say is polluting their water supply and leaving a stench in the air. |
| Harmful particles go unmeasured. |
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Maricopa County maintains an inventory of the major pollution sources across the metropolitan area, tracking dust from dirt roads and construction sites, fuel exhaust from highways and industrial operations, and organic compounds from industrial plants and landfills. And the US EPA says the inventory is inaccurate. |
| Climate in DC doesn't favor clean-air rules. |
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In February 1998, the Governor's Air Quality Strategies Task Force delivered a thick report recommending actions that could reduce air pollution in metropolitan Phoenix. Since then, almost nothing has happened to address the threat of traffic-related pollution sources along major roads and freeways or to help children or adults with respiratory illnesses aggravated by air pollution. |
| Air pollution worse than smoking mother. |
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Exhaust fumes and ground-level ozone increase the risk for premature birth, according to a study by a team of researchers at Umea University in northern Sweden. |
| Could drought threaten South Africa's rooibos tea? |
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South Africa's rooibos tea only grows in a small area and erratic weather patterns - blamed by some on climate change - mean the plant and the new industry are now under threat. |
| Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth. |
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Industrial-scale solar development is well underway in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The federal government has furnished more public property to this cause than it has for oil and gas exploration over the last decade — 21 million acres, more than the area of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties put together. |
| Planes, trains, automobiles; but bicycles? |
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Today, less than 13 percent of US kids use the old foot-mobile, or ride their two wheelers to class. Making children more mobile was what the Federal Safe Routes to School program was all about. It could soon come to a screeching halt. It’s one of the programs on the chopping block as Congress considers a new federal transportation bill. |
| New transportation bill proposes big changes. |
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The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has proposed a sweeping, new transportation bill. The legislation would encourage private companies to build their own toll roads and pay for infrastructure with money from oil companies. |
| Environment agency becomes crunch issue in Rio talks. |
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The UN Environment Programme is emerging as a hot issue in preparations for June's Rio conference, styled as a once-in-a-generation chance to restore a sick planet to good health. |
