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...Processing over 50 million cubic feet of gas per day, the Repsol Rio Grande in Bolivia's eastern state of Santa Cruz sends gas to Bolivia and Brazil. Before the Spanish firm took over in 1997, the state-run facility barely functioned properly because of a lack of resources. Since then, says plant operations supervisor Joaquim Mendez, "things run efficiently - virtually accident free, productive and on schedule...
...Under the new rule, which became final with Johnson's signature, the national standard for daily exposure to fine particle pollution will drop from 65 micrograms per cubic meter to 35 micrograms per cubic meter. That's a significant change; under the tighter rules, an additional 32 counties in the U.S. will now have substandard air quality. At the same time, however, the agency decided to leave the annual standards for exposure to fine particles at their current level - 15 micrograms per cubic meter...
...Lung Association, the new rules "leave far too many people at risk of serious harm - even premature death - from breathing unhealthy, polluted air." The Lung Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association all favor a daily standard of 25 microgram per cubic meter of air for fine particles and an annual limit of 12 micrograms per cubic meter...
...consideration since the late 1990s. We balanced performance and cost, and it turned out to be what customers wanted. If you look at what makes Opteron such a good product, it has tremendous benefits in cost of energy consumption and in terms of architecture. The performance per watt per cubic meter has become a very critical parameter--and we excel in such measures...
...can’t fix.” Calling for a “bipartisan, multinational, multi-generational” coalition to address climate change, Browner began her speech by rattling off nearly a dozen numbers to highlight the scope of the problem. Among them were the 36 cubic miles of Arctic ice—an amount equal to 225 times the annual water use of Los Angeles—that melted in the past year, and the 27 tropical storms, including four Category 5 hurricanes, that developed in the Atlantic...