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Relay for Clean Air more important than ever, event organizers say
- The Sylva Herald (new window)
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8/9/2007 |
| “The Relay for Clean Air is an important message sent from citizens to government officials at the local, state and federal levels: There is nothing more important than clean air,” Friedman said. “All people depend upon clean air for good health, a healthy environment and a prosperous economy.” | |
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Walk, run and bike for clean air
- Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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8/8/2007 |
| The relay traverses 100 miles — from the state line in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to downtown Asheville where the relay culminates in a Clean Air Rally. The course follows the Blue Ridge along the Haywood/Jackson county lines before descending into Asheville. | |
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Why we are marching
- The Sylva Herald (new window)
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8/16/2007 |
| On August 18, the fourth annual Relay for Clean Air will begin at 6:15 a.m. as the first bicyclist leaves Newfound Gap at the border between Tennessee and North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park carrying the pennant-sized “Clean Air” banner. Through a continual chain of bicycle riders, runners and walkers, the banner will arrive in Asheville via the Blue Ridge Parkway, 100 miles and 14 hours later. This is a march for the right to breathe clean air. | |
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Rowan air quality bad, but shows improvement
- Salisbury Post (new window)
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8/10/2007 |
| First the bad news: Rowan is one of two counties in the state out of compliance with federal ozone pollution limits. (Mecklenburg is the other.) | |
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What's in the air?
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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7/25/2006 |
| When Duke Energy won N.C. General Assembly approval of a bill exempting the utility company from a bothersome state environmental regulation, the company's officials were elated. Duke might be able to build a new generating unit at its Cliffside station without having to meet the most stringent emission standards. | |
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Coal mountain
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/15/2006 |
| The state shouldn't falter in requiring maximum reductions of air pollution from Duke Power's coal-burning power plants | |
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Duke Energy asks credit for scrubbers paid by consumers
- The Herald-Sun (new window)
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7/13/2006 |
| Duke Energy Corp. may get a rewrite of state air pollution rules to allow the energy company to get pollution credits for scrubbers that consumers payers are paying to have installed at a coal-burning power plant. | |
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State regulators reject bid to block coal plant
- The News & Observer (new window)
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6/7/2007 |
| State regulators this morning rebuffed a bid by environmentalist groups to bar Duke Energy from building a coal-burning power plant west of Charlotte. The N.C. Utilities Commission upheld its March decision to allow Duke to build one 800-megawatt unit. The commission in March had rejected Duke’s request to build two units. Environmentalists subsequently asked the regulators to reconsider their decision allowing one unit. | |
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Cutting Haze: Air Quality Index merits attention, and we can fight the red, experts say
- Winston-Salem Journal (new window)
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6/7/2007 |
| Air pollution has an effect on people’s health, even at lower, supposedly safe levels. A recent study by researchers at Yale University found that ozone was dangerous to people’s health even at levels lower than current federal and international pollution standards. That’s why air-quality experts say that we need to do a better job at reducing the things we can control - namely not the weather, but car, truck and bus emissions. | |
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Beijing gets clean air tips in RTP
- The News & Observer (new window)
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6/27/2007 |
| The air that Olympic athletes breathe at the 2008 Games in Beijing could be cleaner because of something that happened in the Triangle this month. | |
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Cooper appeals EPA air decision, groups join fight
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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6/27/2006 |
| Attorney General Roy Cooper asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday to reconsider its refusal to hold 13 neighboring states to tighter pollutant emission standards, and also sought a court review of the decision. A collection of environmental groups joined Cooper's effort, filing a similar review request with a federal appeals court in Washington. | |
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Unhealthy ozone levels expected
- News-Record (new window)
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6/26/2007 |
| Ozone levels could reach an unhealthy point today. | |
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EPA Airs Plan to Tighten Ozone, Smog Standards
- NPR's Morning Edition (new window)
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6/21/2007 |
| The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tighter air quality standards for ground-level ozone, the main component of smog. The agency's proposal would dramatically increase the number of U.S. counties rated as having unhealthy air. | |
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Triangle air quality expected to be better today
- The Herald-Sun (new window)
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6/19/2007 |
| According to the N.C. Division of Air Quality, levels of ozone -- best known as the main ingredient in smog -- have been trending down in the past several years, possibly as the result of increased federal and state regulations on harmful emissions. | |
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Conference sparks clean-air ideas
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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6/10/2007 |
| Doctors, teachers, trucking company representatives, environmental specialists and government planners gathered at Lenoir-Rhyne College on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the region's air quality. | |
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Fines Increase for Air Polluters
- The Daily Tar Heel (new window)
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5/24/2007 |
| Allen co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Pryor Gibson, D-Anson that passed in the N.C. House of Representatives May 16 which will more than double the fines for companies who violate state air pollution laws. | |
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Region's anti-pollution plan falls short, group says
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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5/18/2007 |
| The Charlotte region has more work to do to combat traffic-generated air pollution as it nears a 2010 cleanup deadline, an advocacy law firm said Thursday. | |
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Supreme Court to decide when best pollution controls required
- The Herald-Sun (new window)
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5/15/2006 |
| WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide how tough the government can be on 17,000 industrial plants and when it can force improvements in unhealthy air breathed by 160 million Americans. | |
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Mercury warning issued
- The Fayetteville Observer (new window)
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5/10/2006 |
| RALEIGH — Roughly a third of the state’s population should avoid eating largemouth bass as the state is under its largest fish consumption advisory ever. Some environmental and health officials worry that too few people know about the warning. | |
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TVA cleanup might save lives here
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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4/7/2007 |
| Reports by experts supporting North Carolina's lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority describe how much cleaner and healthier the state could be if more pollution controls were added to the power agency's plants. | |
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Justices rule against Duke on pollution controls
- News and Observer (new window)
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4/2/2007 |
| The Supreme Court gave a boost today to a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing utilities to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants. | |
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EPA to investigate higher cancer risk
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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3/8/2006 |
| The Environmental Protection Agency says it will investigate toxic air pollution in Catawba County after recent estimates showed an increased cancer risk in its southeastern corner. | |
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Cleaner Air, Part II
- Winston-Salem Journal (new window)
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3/7/2006 |
| North Carolina has been a regional leader in improving air quality through cleaner power-plant emissions. The state's next target should be the pollution that comes out of vehicle tail pipes. | |
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New Strategy on Clean Air
- Opinion Editorial in The New York Times (new window)
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3/4/2006 |
| The steady erosion of the nation's clean air laws under the Bush administration has inspired Roy Cooper, North Carolina's attorney general, to adopt an unusual legal strategy to force out-of-state power plants to stop sending air pollution into his state. In late January, Mr. Cooper asked a federal court to declare air pollution from 11 power plants owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky a "public nuisance" under common law. | |
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Environmentalists press N.C. to toughen laws on emissions
- Winston-Salem Journal (new window)
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3/1/2006 |
| Faced with roadblocks in Washington, environmentalists in North Carolina are turning to state government to cut the amount of pollution coming from the tailpipes of cars and trucks. | |
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Air pollution doesn't stop at state line
- Winston-Salem Journal - Guest Columnist (new window)
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2/4/2006 |
| North Carolina has asked the courts to do what simple requests and federal rules haven't: Tell the Tennessee Valley Authority to cut the pollution that's making people sick and choking our economy. | |
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Standards: Even Approved Amount of Ozone Is Found Harmful
- The New York Times (new window)
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2/28/2006 |
| A study sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that air even at the E.P.A.'s current acceptable level of ozone — 80 parts per billion — can bring on a significantly increased risk of premature death. | |
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Warning: Our air could harm you
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2/25/2006 |
| Breathing in a traffic-heavy city like Charlotte may raise your chances of getting sick, new federal data shows. | |
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FDA to investigate mercury levels in tuna
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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12/30/2005 |
| The Food and Drug Administration will investigate whether tens of millions of cans of tuna sold each year contain potentially hazardous levels of mercury. | |
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Arguing about air
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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12/28/2005 |
| North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper may be taking the only rational course left in the state's air pollution dispute with the Tennessee Valley Authority: a lawsuit demanding that TVA clean up its emissions. | |
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