2008 Asia Coal Pollution 
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DECEMBER 2, 2010
About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. —John Christensen. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County.
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OCTOBER 17, 2009
World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% in 2008 to reach 27.4 Continuing a decade-long trend, most of the growth was in the Asia-Pacific region, where production grew 6.3%. Coal has led the growth in fossil fuel production. million barrels per day (Mbpd) in 2008, up from 1.0
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MAY 8, 2014
Air quality in most cities worldwide that monitor outdoor (ambient) air pollution fails to meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for safe levels, putting people at additional risk of respiratory disease and other health problems, according to WHO’s expanded ambient (outdoor) air pollution (AAP) in cities database 2014.
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JANUARY 6, 2014
These new compounds were not previously known to exist, and raise additional concerns about the health impacts of heavily-polluted urban air or dietary exposure. PAHs form naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal-fired power plant. Staci Simonich.
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JANUARY 17, 2015
The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. kWh in China and Asia to US$0.09/kWh kWh in Asia to a high of US$0.25/kWh
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MARCH 6, 2010
coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Methane (CH 4 ) emissions from landfills, livestock operations, or coal mines (GWP = 25). A 2008 EPA study analyzed the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. Emission reductions from regulated sources (e.g.,
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MARCH 22, 2010
According to a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the margin of error in measuring emissions by DOEs can be as high as: 10% for the cement and fertilizer industries; 60% for the oil, gas, and coal industries; and. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link].
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