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• Bay Area businesses to pay CO2 fee
SAN FRANCISCO - Air pollution regulators in the San Francisco Bay area voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve new rules that impose fees on businesses for emitting greenhouse gasses. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of ...
• Hamas bans porn Web sites in Gaza Strip
The aim of the move is to protect the Palestinian community from cultural pollution and to protect the young generations from the misuse of the Internet through viewing pornographic sites," Hamas government spokesman Taher al-Nono said.
• TVA at 75
With the river tamed and rising concerns about air pollution and global warming from coal-fired generation, TVA again is turning to nuclear power for more generation.
• 'Worst Polluted Places' list unveiled
... than 12 million people, according to the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland. Experts from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, MIT, Mount Sinai Hospital and other groups devised the listing criteria, which focused on pollution ...
• Gore takes warming warnings to Congress
Gore favors a “cap-and-trade” program for the U.S. economy, not just specific sectors such as electricity or manufacturing, which would set an overall limit on warming emissions but allow industry to meet the target by trading pollution allowances

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» World Bank - NIPR: New Ideas in Pollution Regulation - For researchers, government officials, and citizens interested in understanding and improving control of industrial pollution, especially in developing countries. NIPR is the primary source for materials produced by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Project.