In December, we finalized the first-ever national standards to limit mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants, helping safeguard the health of millions.
In America, for example, landfills containing household rubbish are subject to stringent regulation, whereas ones filled with toxic sludge from power plants are less tightly controlled.
The technology in the newest plants limits toxic emissions of dioxins, a major issue with incinerators of the past, to levels similar to a backyard barbecue's.
Instead, she has spent the past two years trudging around toxic waste sites and recycling plants, while the environmental agenda has been set elsewhere.
The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.
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The researchers have genetically engineered plants that can transform toxic mercury to a much weaker, virtually harmless, form known as elemental mercury.
These so-called fairy circles have variously been pinned on the presence of other, poisonous plants, on ants, and even toxic gases rising from below.
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McCarthy would succeed Lisa Jackson, who was repeatedly forced to defend her EPA stance favoring tougher federal standards on toxic pollutants and mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.
Floodwaters from the east would carry toxic waste from the "Industrial Canal" area, nicknamed after the chemical plants there.
But there are less toxic and nontoxic ways of controlling bugs, from borax (a poison) to essential oils, select plants, and ways to make common insects feel less welcome in your cupboard.
The search for nonfood fuel plants in Asia has led researchers to jatropha, a tough, drought-resistant shrub that produces toxic but oily seeds that can be made into diesel.
As a reporter for the Times noted in her article, the lessons talked about the benefits of coal and the pervasiveness of power plants fueled by it, but omitted mention of the environmental and economic trade-offs, such as toxic waste and greenhouse gases.
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