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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fall 2 pct in 2016, led by power industry - EPA

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 6, 2017

Washington: Greenhouse gas emissions from America's largest industrial facilities fell 2 percent in 2016 to 2.99 billion...

Why The U.S.-China CO2 Deal Is An Energy, Climate, And Political Gamechanger

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 17, 2014

The historic new U.S.-China climate deal changes the trajectory of global carbon pollution emissions, greatly boosting the chances for a global deal in Paris in 2015. The deal would keep, cumulatively, some 640 billion tons of CO2 emissions out of the air this century,...

EPA Sets New SO2 Standards

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 10, 2010

A new rule for sulfur dioxide (SO2) set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday sets a new one-hour health standard, changes monitoring requirements, and modifies the Air Quality Index. Full implementation of revised primary National Ambient Air Quality...

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Climate change indicators show that climate change is happening

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 28, 2010

Climate deniers will just have to grit their teeth over the latest report from the EPA showing that climate change is having a current, measurable effect on the Earth.

While this has been news for a while, the EPA’s Climate Change Indicators report, released Tuesday,...

Opinion: Who needs GHG Specs?

By : Ashish Rana, Apr 15, 2010

Climate policy specialists recommend GHG emission specs for correction of emission pathways. With U.S. EPA setting the GHG standards for vehicles, the effectiveness of these rules will be seen only in the future. However, such standards in the Indian context may still be far...