Goes for auto emission cuts from far behind in the race us president Barack Obama has set in motion a national policy that is expected to make cars and trucks in the country 30 per cent more fuel efficient by 2016. The policy is also expected to cut 900 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions from vehicles between 2012 and 2016. This is equal to taking 177 million cars off

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Several factors lead to the collapse in December of earthen dikes supporting a coal ash landfill at a Tennessee power plant, an engineering consultant said.

European environment chiefs agreed new laws Thursday to crack down on acid pollution from heavy industries such as steel, power plants and refining, EU diplomats said.

Existing power plants will have to comply with the new emissions standards by 2016, but countries can opt to phase the controls in between 2016 and the end of 2020, the diplomats said.

The public health of around 34 villages around the Barapukuria 250MW Power Plant is becoming hazardous as the plant chimneys are continuously emitting fly ash which is full of coal particles due to some technical glitches.

Sources said the plant started emitting fly ash about three to four months ago, forcing the residents of 34 villages to lead a miserable life.

Around 250 brick kilns pose a major health threat to 1.4 million inhabitants of this district by using unauthorised and poisonous fuel, Dawn has learned during a survey.

European environment ministers could agree to tighten up widely flouted acid pollution laws this week after rapid progress in recent negotiations over industrial emissions brought a compromise within reach.

As an engineering student in the 1960s, Takeo Fukui picked the analysis of nitrogen dioxide emissions as his senior thesis with one goal in mind: joining Honda Motor to get a foothold in the world of motor racing.