Big shipping firms now support an official push for higher-quality fuels. (A new report suggests cleaning up marine fuels could save many lives.) Power plants are adding scrubbers.

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Western countries, consumers and businesses can also play a significant role in cleaning up forestry, the report says.

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He said calls had coincided with Mr Huntley's cleaning of his car and a false report that he had seen a man with a bin liner.

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Investigators arriving at the company on September 26 "found NECC employees cleaning sterile compounding areas and and conducting environmental testing, " the report says.

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According to a recent report from the McKinsey Quarterly, Method, a maker of household cleaning products that is widely praised for its environmentally-friendly practices, refuses to compromise for the environment when it comes to the aesthetics of its products.

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Minutes after the Boeing 787 aircraft landed at Boston's Logan International Airport from Tokyo's Narita, cleaning staff discovered smoke near a kitchen at the back of the plane, the report said.

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Indeed, the report suggests, if such measures preventing crop burning and forest fires, cleaning up diesel engines and wood stoves, and so on were adopted everywhere they could halve the wider rate of warming by 2050.

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