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ENVIRONEWS the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In addition, the proposal removes language relating to the vacated provisions of the rule that provided exemptions from the requirements of nonattainment new source review and CAA section 185 penalty fees under the one-hour standard. The public hearing will provide interested parties the opportunity to present data, views, or arguments concerning these proposed changes. The proposal was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 16, 2009, (74 FR 2936) and is available at: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ naaqs/ozone/ o3imp8hr/ European companies such as Alstom are currently building fullscale CO2 capture systems. Clean Coal Option Researchers say that combining coal and biomass with CO2 capture techniques would result in dramatically reducing the concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere. There is too little biomass available to supply the energy needs of the nation. However, there is plenty of coal and by combining it with biomass, the efficiency of carbon reduction could be enhanced, according to some environmental experts. According to a report by Robert McIlvaine, there are other advantages to combining coal and biomass. Waste steam can be used by nearby industry. The fly ash replaces cement and saves one ton of CO2 for every ton of fly ash used. Other potential byproducts would be gypsum, sulfuric acid, sulfur, ammonium sulfate fertilizer, calcium chloride and HCl. An Un-Wasteful Experiment Eleven North Sea islands from six countries have joined in an experiment to demonstrate to the world that it is possible to live comfortably without generating waste. They plan to follow a cradle-to-cradle lifestyle that will endlessly reuse all of their daily living requirements. The innovations they will explore will include electric vehicles, desalination systems that remove the salts in a usable Vanton Pump & Equipment form, and household water Corp. purification including FLEX-I-LINER® sealless, human wastes. Technical self-priming chemical pum p for safe transfer dosing of universities across norther acids/ caustics throughout the complete pH Europe will be trying new range. Quick Delivery. solutions for small-scale Prices for pump with energy production. The motor begin @ $687. E.U. has pledged nearly www.vanton.com or $4.5 for the first fourwww.ﬂex-i-liner.com year phase. There are www.vanton.com nearly 50,000 residents that are included in the experiment. PLE03094FluidDyn.indd 1 MARCH2009 www.pollutionengineering.com PM 2/5/09 2:20:38 11 http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ozone/o3imp8hr/ http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ozone/o3imp8hr/ http://www.pollutionengineering.com

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Pollution Engineering - March 2009

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