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12:01am

Fri November 30, 2012
Pollution

Residents struggle with health impacts of polluted industrial site

  • Joanna Richards looks at the legacy of the New York Air Brakes site in Watertown, N.Y. Despite being cleaned up in the 1990's, residents continue to experience health issues that they say may be linked to chemical residue in the environment from an earlier period in the operation of the facility.

A polluted industrial site in Watertown, cleaned up in the late 1990s, has been garnering renewed public interest, for all the wrong reasons. Several current and former residents of the neighborhood have stepped forward, claiming exposure to chemicals from the site has made them sick.

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3:39pm

Tue August 28, 2012
New Fuel Efficiency and Pollution Standards

New fuel efficiency standard aims to halve US oil use within 20 years: DOT

Credit Whitehouse.gov

Auto makers are being told to double fuel efficiency and halve pollution levels in the measures announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) .

The standards will apply to new passenger vehicles sold between 2017 and 2025.

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