Hi EVENTS; Air & Climate 2014/15.

Hi EVENTS; Air & Climate 2014/15.

The Air Quality and Emissions Show (AQE) 2015. Telford - United Kingdom Apr. 22 - 23, 2015. The 8th in the series of Air Quality & Emissions Events will focus on industrial emissions and stack monitoring of (Part A) processes regulated by the Environment Agency, ambient air quality monitoring,the emissions to air of Part A2 and Part B processes controlled by local authorities, MCERTS standards,.....

Practical Air Dispersion Modeling Workshop - CA, USA Los Angeles - California (USA) Nov. 5 - 7, 2014. This three day workshop is intended for individuals with little or no prior knowledge of air dispersion modeling techniques for continuous releases. New regulations require dispersion models to be used to estimate the magnitude of pollutants from industrial sources on populations both near and far ... Climate Change: Building the Age of Resilience. London - United Kingdom Oct. 23, 2014. This conference will look at the case for developing resilient systems and infrastructure in light of a changing climate. It will examine the range of uncertainties in climate predictions, how different sectors are currently approaching ... Climate Change: Earth System, Future Scenarios and Threats 2014. Newcastle upon Tyne - United Kingdom Nov. 10 - 14, 2014. The course starts with the science of climate change, dealing with uncertainties and the major issues affecting our understanding of the climate system and its future behaviour. It then moves on to climate modelling, covering the ... Lima Climate Change Conference - December 2014. Lima - Peru Dec. 1 - 12, 2014. The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will be held from 1 to 12 December. COP 20/CMP 10 will be hosted by ... Air Pollution 2014. Newcastle - United Kingdom Dec. 8 - 12, 2014. This course will: * introduce the fundamentals of air pollution with a background on historical perspective on air pollution and a commentary on current air quality policies and standards; * discuss major pollutants, their ... Clean Air Compliance Manager March 2015. Las Vegas - Nevada (USA) Mar. 17 - 19, 2015. This is a 3-day course providing a comprehensive look at the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA), its history and drivers, each of the Titles of the 1990 CAA Amendments, and the permitting process. 2015 Northeast Indoor Air Quality and Energy Conference. Portland - Maine (USA) Apr. 15 - 16, 2015. The Northeast IAQ & Energy Conference (formerly called the Maine Indoor Air Quality Conference) is the largest IAQ conference ... 23rd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution. Valencia - Spain Jun. 1 - 3, 2015. The conferences in this series have discussed and considered many important air pollution issues and the international nature of the attendees has ensured that the conference findings and conclusions enjoy a wide and rapid dissemination ... 6th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC) 2015. Sydney - Australia Oct. 11 - 14, 2015. The World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC), a leading technical and commercial event for the global hydrogen energy and fuel cell community, will be held at Australian Technology Park, Sydney on October 11-14, 2015,

(Hi) - EPA, U.S. to Cut Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants!.

(Hi) - EPA, U.S. to Cut Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants!.

The Clean Power Plan is a proposal to ensure a healthier environment, spur innovation and strengthen the economy.

After a major outreach effort, the EPA is releasing the Clean Power Plan proposal to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.

The proposal will protect public health, move the United States toward a cleaner environment and fight climate change while supplying Americans with reliable and affordable power.

"Climate change, fueled by carbon pollution, supercharges risks to our health, our economy, and our way of life. EPA is delivering on a vital piece of the Climate Action Plan by proposing a Clean Power Plan that will cut harmful carbon pollution from our largest source--power plants," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. 

"By leveraging cleaner energy sources and cutting energy waste, this plan will clean the air we breathe while helping slow climate change so we can leave a safe and healthy future for our kids. We don't have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment--our action will sharpen America’s competitive edge, spur innovation and create jobs."

Power plants account for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. 

While there are limits in place for the level of arsenic, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particle pollution that power plants can emit, there are currently no national limits on carbon pollution levels.

With the Clean Power Plan, EPA is proposing guidelines that build on trends already underway in states and the power sector to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, making them more efficient and less polluting. 

This proposal follows through on the common-sense steps laid out in the Climate Action Plan and the June 2013 Presidential Memorandum.

By 2030, the steady and responsible steps EPA is taking will:

• Cut carbon emission from the power sector by 30 percent nationwide below 2005 levels, which is equal to the emissions from powering more than half the homes in the United States for one year.

• Cut particle pollution, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by more than 25 percent as a co-benefit.

• Avoid up to 6,600 premature deaths, up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children and up to 490,000 missed work or school days—providing up to $93 billion in climate and public health benefits.

• Shrink electricity bills roughly 8 percent by increasing energy efficiency and reducing demand in the electricity system.

The Clean Power Plan will be implemented through a state-federal partnership under which states identify a path forward using either current or new electricity production and pollution control policies to meet the goals of the proposed program. 

The proposal provides guidelines for states to develop plans to meet state-specific goals to reduce carbon pollution and gives them the flexibility to design a program that makes the most sense for their unique situation. 

States can choose the right mix of generation using diverse fuels, energy efficiency and demand-side management to meet the goals and their own needs. It allows them to work alone to develop individual plans or to work together with other states to develop multi-state plans.

Also included in the proposal is a flexible timeline for states to follow for submitting plans to the agency—with plans due in June 2016, with the option to use a two-step process for submitting final plans if more time is needed. States that have already invested in energy efficiency programs will be able to build on these programs during the compliance period to help make progress toward meeting their goal.

Since last summer, EPA has directly engaged with state, tribal and local governments, industry and labor leaders, nonprofits and others. 

The data, information and feedback provided during this effort helped guide the development of the proposal and further confirmed that states have been leading the way for years in saving families and businesses money through improving efficiency, while cleaning up pollution from power plants. To date, 47 states have utilities that run demand-side energy efficiency programs, 38 have renewable portfolio standards or goals, and 10 have market-based greenhouse gas emissions programs. 

Together, the agency believes that these programs represent a proven, common-sense approach to cutting carbon pollution—one in which electricity is generated and used as efficiently as possible and which promotes a greater reliance on lower-carbon power sources.

The announcement marks the beginning of the second phase of the agency’s outreach efforts. 

EPA will accept comment on the proposal for 120 days after publication in the Federal Register and will hold four public hearings on the proposed Clean Power Plan during the week of July 28 in the following cities:

Denver, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Based on this input, EPA will finalize standards next June following the schedule laid out in the June 2013 Presidential Memorandum.

Fact sheets and details about the proposed 

rule available by clicking the following link 

here or the images above. 

For More information on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan Click The Following Link Here To Visit The White House Official Webpage For Climate Change & View Videos Below. 

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Hi Climate change already affecting US.

HI Climate change already affecting US.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it came time to deliver a new federal report detailing what global warming is doing to America and the dire forecast for the future, President Barack Obama turned to the pros who regularly deliver the bad news about wild weather: TV meteorologists.

'We want to emphasize to the public, this is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now,' Obama told 'Today' show weathercaster Al Roker. 'Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.'

Climate change's assorted harms 'are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond,' the National Climate Assessment concluded, emphasizing the impact of too-wild weather as well as simple warming.

Still, it's not too late to prevent the worst of climate change, says the 840-page report, which the Obama administration is highlighting as it tries to jump-start often-stalled efforts to curb heat-trapping gases. Said White House science adviser John Holdren, 'It's a good-news story about the many opportunities to take cost-effective actions to reduce the damage.'

Release of the report, the third edition of a congressionally mandated study, gives Obama an opportunity to ground his campaign against climate change in science and numbers, endeavoring to blunt the arguments of those who question the idea and human contributions to such changes. Later this summer, the administration plans to propose new regulations restricting gases that come from existing coal-fired power plants.

Not everyone is convinced.

Some fossil energy groups, conservative think tanks and Republican senators immediately assailed the report as 'alarmist.' Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Obama was likely to 'use the platform to renew his call for a national energy tax. And I'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites - from the kind of people who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets.'

Since taking office, Obama has not proposed a specific tax on fossil fuel emissions. He has proposed a system that caps emissions and allows companies to trade carbon pollution credits, but it has failed in Congress.

Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said the report was supposed to be scientific but 'it's more of a political one used to justify government overreach.' And leaders in the fossil fuel industry, which is responsible for a large amount of the heat-trapping carbon dioxide, said their energy is needed and America can't afford to cut back.

'Whether you agree or disagree with the report, the question is: What are you going to do about it? To us that is a major question,' said Charlie Drevna, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. He called the report 'overblown.'

The report - it's full of figures, charts and other research-generated graphics - includes 3,096 footnotes referring to other mostly peer-reviewed research. It was written by more than 250 scientists and government officials, starting in 2012. A draft was released in January 2013, but this version has been reviewed by more scientists, including twice by the National Academy of Sciences, which called it 'reasonable' and 'a valuable resource.'

Environmental groups praised the report. 'If we don't slam the brakes on the carbon pollution driving climate change, we're dooming ourselves and our children to more intense heat waves, destructive floods and storms and surging sea levels,' said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Scientists and the White House called it the most detailed and U.S.-focused scientific report on global warming.

The report looks at regional and state-level effects of global warming, compared with recent reports from the United Nations that lumped all of North America together.

'All Americans will find things that matter to them in this report,' said scientist Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory, who chaired the science committee that wrote it. 'For decades we've been collecting the dots about climate change; now we're connecting those dots.'

In a White House conference call with reporters, National Climatic Data Center Director Tom Karl said his two biggest concerns were flooding from sea level rise on the U.S. coastlines - especially for the low-lying cities of Miami; Norfolk, Virginia; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire - and drought, heat waves and prolonged fire seasons in the Southwest.

Even though the nation's average temperature has risen by between 1.3 and 1.9 degrees since record-keeping began in 1895, it's in the big, wild weather where the average person feels climate change the most, said co-author Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University climate scientist. Extreme weather hits us in the pocketbook and can be seen with our own eyes, she said.

The report says the intensity, frequency and duration of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes have increased since the early 1980s, but it is still uncertain how much of that is from man-made warming. Winter storms have increased in frequency and intensity and have shifted northward since the 1950s, it says. Also, heavy downpours are increasing - by 71 percent in the Northeast. Heat waves, such as those in Texas in 2011 and the Midwest in 2012, are projected to intensify nationwide. Droughts in the Southwest are expected to get stronger. Sea level has risen 8 inches since 1880 and is projected to rise between 1 foot and 4 feet by 2100.

Climate data center chief Karl highlighted the increase in downpours. He said last week's drenching, when Pensacola, Florida, got up to 2 feet of rain in one storm and parts of the East had 3 inches in one day, is what he's talking about.

The report says 'climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways.' Those include smoke-filled air from wildfires, smoggy air from pollution, and more diseases from tainted food, water, mosquitoes and ticks. And the ragweed pollen season has lengthened.

Flooding alone may cost $325 billion by the year 2100 in one of the worst-case scenarios, with $130 billion of that in Florida, the report says. Already the droughts and heat waves of 2011 and 2012 have added about $10 billion to farm costs, the report says.

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Hi Safety & Efficiencies in Underground Secondary Ventilation White Paper!;

A. Design, layout and construction of the ventilation duct;

B. Implementing continuous change in the design;

C. The significance of air volume control;

D. Strategies, directions and current best practices in safety and air efficiency;

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Hi Mine ventilation – Why it’s a strategic asset, not just a requirement!;

Effective mine ventilation is a critical success factor to ensuring that underground coal mine operations run as smoothly as possible. But what are some of the key considerations that impact success?

Having a strategic approach to hazards and planning will influence long term prosperity of a mine. 

Ahead of Mine Ventilation 2014, John Sleigh, Manager Safety & Health, Central Region, Department of Natural Resources and Mines, who discussed some of these considerations and implications.

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D. Their leadership and culture change programme;

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Hi R. Frank Chiappetta: Achieving Better Fragmentation With Unique Blast Design Concepts;

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B. Achieving optimum fragmentation distributions to satisfy the plant requirements;

C. Improving fragmentation 5-10 fold with the combined;

D. Use of stem charges, air decks and electronic detonators;

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Hi Building a Ventilation on Demand system? 4 things you need to know:

Ventilation on Demand (VOD) is a whole-of-mine ventilation system, which is enhanced by coordinating the ventilation equipment settings for the needs of the mine on a real-time basis.

Ahead of Hard Rock Mine Ventilation 2014, Allison Golsby, CEO of ConsultMine discusses the impact of VOD systems and how they are offering new opportunities to reduce operational costs, improve efficiency and health & safety.

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Hi Optimising ventilation systems to reduce DPM:

Reducing DPM at a mine site...crucial and often requiring comprehensive planning and design. 

Johannes Holtzhausen, Ventilation Engineer at MMG, discusses developments at the Rosebery Mine in Tasmania. 

This article explores project design and specifications, challenges and operational status.

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