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Adriana Trujillo

China Now Handing Down Death Penalty to Worst Polluters - 0 views

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china pollution death penalty

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  • Chinese authorities have recently given courts the authority to hand down the death penalty for serious cases of pollution
  • Public anger over China’s growth-at-all-costs policies has been growing steadily in response to the increasingly polluted air and water
  • public’s attitudes towards environmental protection found that up to 80 percent believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development.
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  • A recent analysis by the Health Effects Institute in Boston found that over a million people die prematurely in China every year as the result of air pollution.
  • Particulate levels in Beijing, Guangzhou and other Chinese cities often rise to as much as seven times the World Health Organization’s air-quality standard
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  • A protest over plans to build a petro-chemical refinery in Kunming
  • Adriana Trujillo on 10 Jul 13
     
    Chines courts are allowed to hand down the death penalty for serisous cases of pollution
Brett Rohring

Terrorist Tungsten in Colombia Taints Global Phone-to-Car Sales - Bloomberg - 0 views

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Tungsten illegal minerals mining

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  • Tungsten, in particular, is in high demand.
  • The dark, heat-resistant and super-hard metal is inside the engines of some of the most popular cars in the world. It’s used for screens of computers, phones, tablets and televisions. It helps mobile phones vibrate when they ring. Semiconductor makers use the metal to provide insulation between microscopic layers of circuitry.
  • Tiger Hill rises above the rain forest in an area ruled by armed FARC fighters more than 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the nearest road, town or police station.
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  • The mine is illegal in three ways: It’s inside a forest preserve, it’s banned by Colombian law because it’s on an Indian reservation, and it’s run by the FARC, which is classified by Colombia, the U.S. and the European Union as a terrorist organization.
  • While Tiger Hill is illegal, it’s the only known tungsten mine in Colombia, according to the police and Environment Ministry officials responsible for regulating mining.
  • China produces the most tungsten -- about 85 percent of global output -- authorities there impose tight controls on the metal to assure domestic manufacturers have enough. That’s forcing companies to scour the globe for mines elsewhere, the USGS says.
  • Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Samsung Electronics Co. purchase parts from a firm that buys from the company that imports tungsten ore from Colombia, company records show.
  • the Environment Ministry’s director whose jurisdiction includes much of Colombia’s Amazon region, says the shippers are hiding the tungsten ore’s true origins.
  • “They falsify the source of illegal metals,” Melendez says. “This is how they launder tungsten.”
Brett Rohring

5 reasons the thirst for water technology will grow in 2014 | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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water technology

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  • Here are five factors driving the urgent need for better global water efficiency.
  • 1. Population trends translate into bursting demand
  • The United Nations figures that 1.2 billion people (about one-fifth of the world's population) are challenged by water scarcity
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  • The bottom line is that water availability will be a major investment consideration in business expansion plans around the world.
  • Just one example from the United States: In Chandler, Ariz., Intel has negotiated a unique relationship with the city to clean and return water tainted by its wafer manufacturing operation back to the local aquifers. Chandler owns the technology to do this, but Intel has helped make that investment possible. Both sides benefit
  • 2. Sanitation, irrigation needs transform wastewater treatment
  • most wastewater is still wasted: in high-income countries, the treatment rate is 70 percent, but it falls to just 28 percent for lower-middle-income nations and 8 percent in low-income economies.
  • 3. Utility costs are rising quickly
  • 4. Distribution networks are aging rapidly
  • Overall, the World Bank estimates the annual global value of water lost by utilities at $14 billion. The average U.S. utility pours up to 30 percent down the drain through leaks or un-billed usage.
  • 5. Data centers guzzle more water
Del Birmingham

From London to Shanghai, world's sinking cities face devastating floods | Environment |... - 0 views

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international The Guardian cities sinking face floods sea-level rise

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  • Del Birmingham on 05 Oct 18
     
    London, Jakarta, Shanghai and Houston and other global cities that are already sinking will become increasingly vulnerable to storms and flooding as a result of global warming, campaigners have warned ahead of a landmark new report on climate science.
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