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Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007.

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Continental presents action plan for immediately reducing lead in electronic components in cars

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Continental has submitted a plan of action to the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection with which the company intends immediately to reduce the lead content in some of its electronic components to legally prescribed maximum quantities in accordance with the End of Life Vehicles Directive.

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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

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The very first press car I ever received was a red 2008 Mercury Sable , so let's take a look at the same kind of car at the end of its 16-year career. But we just saw a Corvair in this series less than two years back , so today you're getting a history lesson about decline-and-fall-era Mercury instead.

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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The report does not assess whether the emissions from industrial facilities are consistent with the legal permitting conditions for the operation of these plants. There are differences between the selected pollutants in terms of the extent of current knowledge about how to evaluate their impacts.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

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It’s now or never if humans hope to prevent the mercury from increasing by 1.5° Engineers and legal minds will continue to address the problems keeping such facilities from proliferating. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Many wonder, “why not install solar panels on an EV’s roof?”

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Schwarzenegger's Green Cred Fading with CARB Caos

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From the San Jose Mercury News : The executive director of the California Air Resources Board resigned Monday, saying the governor's office had made it impossible for her to do her job by interfering with the implementation of the state's landmark global warming law. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez will be holding hearings in the Assembly.

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Which states align with California EV mandate in 2024?

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That could draw legal challenges against Youngkin’s move to drop out of the ranks of states following California emissions rules, reports the Virginia Mercury (via Axios ). All states have the option to follow California’s emissions rules instead of the federal standards, and Virginia passed a law to do this in 2021.