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Environmental protection officials in Beijing have had an easy time since the Olympics last summer.

The city recorded fewer polluted days following its smog-cleaning campaign for the Olympics, and authorities last month announced that the city’s air quality has reached the highest level in decades after meeting its annual target for "blue sky" days one month ahead of schedule, for two consecutive years.

But the fact that Beijing’s air is now clean is bad news for reporters.

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An environmental advocacy group known as Environment Virginia released a report this week that identifies Alexandria’s Mirant coal-fired power plant as the second dirtiest in Virginia. The report, titled "America’s Biggest Polluters," used carbon dioxide emissions data from 2007 to conduct an analysis of the plants and create a ranking system. The finding comes at a time when city officials are coordinating with Mirant to erect a 30-foot windscreen in an effort to control fugitive dust from the plant.

"It’s very disappointing, but I must say it’s not surprising," said Councilwoman Del Pepper. "I’m hopeful that with the $ 34 million we got to improve the plant will address some of the problems."

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BRISTOL – Zoning issues surrounding a Tupelo Street business that have been floating around for several years could finally be resolved at the next Bristol Town Council meeting. ELJ Inc. of 703 Metacom Ave. has approached the town and is looking for a zoning change for its property at 95 Tupelo St. where it runs a stone-crushing operation.

Ed Tanner, Bristol zoning official, said a zoning change from general business to manufacturing at the site will make ELJ in compliance with town regulations.

Mr. Tanner said, as of now, the business is a non-conforming use. ELJ has argued in the past that the business is grandfathered because they used the property for similar uses before zoning at the property.

“They’ve done a lot of things to their operations to try to comply with our requests and the neighbors’ complaints about noise and dust,” Mr. Tanner said.

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Alberta’s oilsands are pumping the equivalent of a major oil spill into the Athabasca watershed every year, says an independent report.

The research study, published yesterday in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, suggests toxic emissions from the oilsands are nearly five times as high and cover twice as much area than reported by Suncor and Syncrude.

Dr. David Schindler, one of the report’s authors, said the results show that better monitoring is needed and more remedial measures need to be taken to ensure the health of those living along the Athabasca River and its tributaries.

"I think the human threat is already there," he said yesterday.

"We’re hoping when the government sees this, they’ll make efforts to upgrade their monitoring programs and we’re hoping to develop a model that the government will pick up and execute."

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RAIPUR: India’s largest private sector steel maker, Tata Steel, will invest Rs.2,000 crore on environment conservation at its Rs.19,500-crore plant coming up in Chhattisgarh’s militancy-hit Bastar district.

"Tata Steel officials made a presentation at a public hearing on Monday for environmental clearance and committed to invest Rs.2,000 crore on environment conservation," Bastar district collector M.S. Paraste, who presided over the meeting, told IANS.

Describing the hearing as "quite successful", Paraste said 2,044 hectares of land would be handed over to Tata Steel, probably by December.

District authorities have so far acquired about 80 percent of land across 10 villages in Lohandiguda block, some 340 km south of state capital Raipur, for the integrated plant that will produce 5.5 million tonnes of steel annually.

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Soils Control International has accomplished the same results with their product, Top-Seal Dust Control 

DuPont Australia’s groundbreaking work to reduce dust emissions from trains carrying coal and to improve air quality recently earned two industry awards:

* The Australian Mining Prospect Award for Excellence in Environmental Management
* The Australian Bulk Handling Award for Dust Control Technology

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Federal officials unveiled a three-pronged strategy to combat black lung disease during a meeting Thursday at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beaver.

Mining officials and medical experts say education, stricter enforcement and new regulations can curb the disease, which has been on the rise in the region and has killed some 10,000 miners in the last decade.

Thursday’s meeting was the first of four informational sessions planned by Mine Safety and Health Administration.

“There is a collective agreement that we have to fix this problem,” MSHA Director Joseph Main told a packed room that included representatives from mining companies, the United Mine Workers of America and former miners suffering from the ailment.

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The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection conducted a public hearing Wednesday to hear community concerns on the NDEP’s recommendation to approve a permit that would allow Bango Oil to discharge up to 5 million gallons of treated effluent annually.

The discharge area is uphill from the Carson River and near the Truckee Canal and has a general groundwater depth as high as 16 feet.

Tom Clark, director of governmental affairs and public relations for Bango, said the company requested this permit as a part of a Special Environmental Project issued by the NDEP.

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Merrillville-based MonoSol LLC, a global leader in the development and commercialization of water soluble products and packaging, announced that it is considering an expansion of their La Porte production facility to dramatically increase production pending local and state incentive offers. The company says it would invest more than $20 million over the next two years and add significant resources to its La Porte plant if approved.

"For the past five years, MonoSol has developed technology that has grown worldwide consumer and commercial product demand for water soluble films and solutions. This increasing demand has been met by consistently and methodically increasing capacity at our manufacturing sites in the United States and England," said P. Scott Bening, president and CEO.

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