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China-based study concludes using political incentives to fight pollution is costly and inefficient

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The study looked at water quality regulations and found that local officials more heavily enforced regulations on polluting firms that were monitored and tracked by the central government, while not enforcing regulations on firms not tracked. The unequal deployment of the regulations led to significant economic losses in China.

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Study measures the effect of regional change in clouds caused by ships’ emissions; masking GHG warming

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This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.

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New maps give Europeans close-up picture of air pollution from diffuse sources

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New online maps published by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, in close cooperation with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre, allow citizens to pinpoint the main diffuse sources of air pollution, such as transport and aviation. NO x emissions from road transport.

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Butamax and Highwater Ethanol break ground on biobutanol retrofit project

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BP and DuPont have been working together since 2003; in 2006, they created a partnership to develop, produce and market a next generation of biofuels, with the first planned commercialization being biobutanol. There are four isomeric structures for butanol: 1-butanol (or n-butanol); iso-butanol; 2-butanol (or sec-butanol); and tert-butanol.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. is providing incentives to voluntarily replace 19 drayage trucks operating 1995-2003 engines. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California.

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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Most recently, Boyle and his students in MIT’s Trace Metal Group have analyzed water and coral samples from the Indian Ocean, using the coral to trace the history of anthropogenic lead over the last 50 years. The result, he says, is that the Indian Ocean has had less time than the Atlantic and Pacific to dissipate lead pollution.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. The Concorde went on to serve various destinations, including some in the United States, flying at supersonic speeds only over water. was founded by billionaire Robert Bass in 2003.