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DTE, subsidiaries ordered to pay $100M over sulfur dioxide pollution near Detroit

A federal judge has ordered DTE Energy and three of its subsidiaries to pay $100 million in penalties over pollution from a facility on Zug Island.
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Cleaner shipping fuel is contributing to ocean warming, scientists say

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Shipping fuel regulations introduced in 2020 have led to a substantial cut in sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, but may also have made the ocean warmer by reducing cloud cover, ...
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Ameren Missouri closing Rush Island coal plant after years-long litigation over pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates Rush Island released 275,000 tons of sulfur dioxide after it was updated without required pollution controls in 2007 and 2010. One of Ameren Missouri’s ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Lawsuit Filed to Reduce Asthma-Causing Sulfur Dioxide Air Pollution in Nine States, Two U.S. Territories

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to ensure that areas in nine states and two U.S.
Houston Chronicle

Texas among states named in lawsuit against EPA leader over sulfur dioxide pollution

Two national nonprofits sued the head of the Environmental Protection Agency last week after the agency failed to hold Texas and other states accountable for poisonous sulfur dioxide pollution that ...
The Hill

E-commerce hubs worsen air pollution: Study

Air pollution is worsening near massive e-commerce warehouses as a result of constant traffic around these hubs, a new study found. The new study was led by researchers at The George Washington ...