But the Oil Pollution Act bans the U.S.-built ship from Alaskan waters.
Michael K. Dorsey, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth and coauthor of Carbon Trading, says that while pollution trading programs work in the U.S. to control pollutants like sulfur dioxide, it will be hard to track such schemes in developing nations.
Michael K. Dorsey, a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth and coauthor of Carbon Trading, says that while pollution-trading programs work in the U.S. to control pollutants like sulfur dioxide, it will be hard to track such schemes in developing nations.
For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.
Chevron has never made a pretense of playing nice with the U.S. lawyers suing it over pollution left over from when its Texaco unit was drilling for oil in the jungles of Ecuador.
But by U.S. standards, Utah's pollution index is off the charts with readings routinely exceeding a scale that tops out at 70 micrograms a cubic meter.
There is an excellent precedence for this approach established by the U.S. Congress when it passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
They need that evidence to block U.S. enforcement of the expected multibillion-dollar pollution judgment in Ecuador, which is pretty much worthless to the plaintiffs unless they can convince courts in a country where Chevron has assets to seize them.
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Chastened, in 1995 Ertel joined the then-new pollution desk at Natsource, where he sold sulfur dioxide credits in a market created by tough U.S. regulations on coal-burning utilities.
Chastened, in 1995 Ertel joined the then new pollution desk at Natsource, where he sold sulfur dioxide credits in a market created by tough U.S. regulations on coal-burning utilities.
In the U.S. over the past 20 years, crime, traffic fatalities, air pollution and infant mortality have dropped.
In two of the most heavily drilled states in the U.S., there is no sign natural gas development has caused harmful air pollution.
The U.S. and Canada limited the use of phosphate laundry detergents and cracked down on Great Lakes pollution from industry and municipal sewage systems four decades ago.
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