Pollution & Toxins

NEW DELHI, Nov. 19 (UPI) — Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday said his country would never agree to legally binding emissions and downplayed expectations for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month.
“Internationally we reject legally binding emissions. We will never agree to that, and we are prepared to be alone in our stand, [...]

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (UPI) — Air pollution is well-recognized problem at major airports, but air pollution near smaller regional airports may be overlooked, U.S. researchers say.
Suzanne Paulson of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues said smaller regional airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems.
The study, published in [...]

SEOUL, Nov. 17 (UPI) — South Korea said it would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020.
The target, announced Tuesday, is roughly equivalent to cutting greenhouse gas emissions 4 percent by 2020 compared with 2005. In so doing, the government aims to cut the 2020 “business as usual” projection from 813 million [...]

PHOENIX, Nov. 13 (UPI) — Arizona’s booming population growth polluted its air at a faster rate than any other state between 1990 and 2007, researchers said.
The amount of carbon dioxide pollution from automobile exhaust and electric power generation in Arizona grew 61 percent between 1990 and 2007, researchers for the advocacy group Environment Arizona said [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 11 (UPI) — An Ohio official said his state has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for permission to use a pesticide to kill an invasion of bedbugs.
Matt Beal, assistant chief at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, said the severity of the bedbug infestation led to state officials wanting to use [...]