Air Pollution and Air Quality

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build coal- fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, despite the fact that half of EPA's 10 regional administrators have...  

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District on Thursday reissued an Air Quality Watch for Southern Santa Barbara County, indicating that strong ...  

A website dedicated to providing information about pollution and air quality ranks Sullivan County as one of the worst counties in the state of Tennessee.  

Linde North America has received certification of its Vancouver, Washington, manufacturing facility under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care program.  

A cleaner environment is coming to Hallsville at no cost to the taxpayer. Hallsville ISD is the recipient of a $70,800 grant from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to install pollution control ...  

Representatives from local neighborhoods facing the most air pollution, along with medical professionals and environmental advocates, will come together as a single Clean Air Coalition next month. Myra Reece, chief of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control's Bureau of Air...  

Tsubasa Hatanaka , and Kazuyuki Tatsumi * Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, and Research Center for Meterials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan ...  

In cluttered labs in the University of Rhode Island's chemistry department, Jimmie Oxley and her students are lighting fires, mixing chemicals, and trying to see what they can and can't blow up.  

Snow flakes are embedded with valuable information of atmospheric chemical composition and climatic conditions.  

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