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China's exports linked to western U.S. air pollution
January 21, 2014
(CNN) -- Pollution doesn't respect national borders.
Outsourcing manufacturing to China may have resulted in less pollution in some parts of the United States, but other regions have lesser air quality because of U.S.-bound Chinese products, a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.
"Pollution from China is having an effect in the U.S., and we need to recognize how that is affecting both our background ozone levels and also particulates that are reaching the West Coast," said study co-author Don Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Firefighters battle large HAZMAT fire after Livonia industrial building engulfed by flames
January 15, 2014
LIVONIA (WXYZ) - The Livonia Fire Department confirms they are on the scene of a large HAZMAT fire
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An industrial building on the 12000 block of Sears is engulfed in flames. It's located near Merriman and Plymouth Roads.
Multiple explosions can be heard in succession at the scene of ERG Environmental.
EPA: Enbridge missed dredging deadline
January 9, 2014
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - As expected, Enbridge has failed to meet an end-of-year deadline to complete dredging operations to clean up oil contamination in Kalamazoo County, a federal agency says.
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - As expected, Enbridge has failed to meet an end-of-year deadline to complete dredging operations to clean up oil contamination in Kalamazoo County, a federal agency says.
When an Enbridge pipeline broke in summer 2010, it spilled more than 800,000 gallons of oil in to the Kalamazoo River and its tributaries. Since then, the Calgary, Alberta-based company has been working to clean up the mess.
In a statement, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that Enbridge finished operations at two of the three areas it was ordered to dredge by Dec. 31, 2013. But it didn't finish everything.
Monsanto critics denied U.S. Supreme Court hearing on seed patents
January 14, 2014
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits.
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and a group of dozens of organic and conventional family farmers, seed companies and public advocacy interests sued Monsanto in March 2011. The suit sought to prohibit the company from suing farmers whose fields became inadvertently contaminated with corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and other crops containing Monsanto's genetic modifications.
Proposal would increase oil tanker traffic
December 27, 2013
SEATTLE (AP) — The number of oil tankers in Washington state waters could increase almost sevenfold under a proposal by a Canadian pipeline company to expand the amount of crude oil it sends to the Pacific Coast.
SEATTLE (AP) — The number of oil tankers in Washington state waters could increase almost sevenfold under a proposal by a Canadian pipeline company to expand the amount of crude oil it sends to the Pacific Coast.
Kinder Morgan Canada filed a formal application with Canadian regulators earlier this month to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline that carries crude oil from Alberta's oil sands to the Vancouver, B.C. area.
Under the proposal, up to 34 tankers a month would be loaded with oil at a terminal outside Vancouver, then generally travel through Haro Strait east of San Juan Island and the Strait of Juan de Fuca for export to markets in Asia and the U.S. That's up from about five tankers a month now.
The $5.4 billion expansion project would nearly triple pipeline capacity from about 300,000 to 890,000 barrels of crude oil a day to meet customer demand. Much of that future cargo will likely be diluted bitumen from Canada's oil sands.