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Air
Pollution & Risk Assessment - the monthly newsletter which
brings you the latest developments in the emissions, air pollution,
GIS, and risk assessment fields, as well as information on upcoming
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| A&WMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION |
| June 22-25, 2004 | Indianapolis, Indiana
Lakes is pleased to exhibit at the Air & Waste Management Association 97th Annual Conference and Exhibition. We look forward to demonstrating our wide range of air dispersion modeling, risk assessment and emissions inventory software at booth 202. If you are interested in free passes to the tradeshow, please contact Ms. Chamarie Perera at chamarie@weblakes.com |
| https://www.awma.org/ACE2004
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| 13th INTERNATIONAL EMISSION INVENTORY CONFERENCE |
| June 7-10, 2004 | Clearwater, Florida
This year's conference is entitled "Working for Clean Air in Clearwater". The meetings will highlight toxic air pollutant emissions and effects by featuring a plenary session discussion on mercury deposition and a technical session devoted to deposition of toxic and criteria pollutants. Mr. Stephen Koo will be presenting a technical paper entitled "Emissions Inventory for Large-Scale Risk Assessments".
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| https://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei13/index.html |
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| NEW ICE AGE IN THE MIDST OF GLOBAL WARMING? |
| Every now and then the notion resurfaces that the influx of warm water to the Norwegian Sea might stop and lead to a catastrophic worsening of the climate in Norway and the Nordic countries. As recently as March this year, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation aired a BBC program called The Big Chill, which concluded that within the next 50 years global warming could bring about a new ice age. |
| https://www.cicero.uio.no/fulltext.asp?id=2740&lang=en
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| GOVERNMENTS OF ONTARIO AND CANADA AGREE TO COOPERATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE |
| The Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario announced the completion of an agreement to work together on climate change.
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| https://climatechange.gc.ca/english/newsroom/2004/20040521_ontario.asp |
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| AIRLINE BOOM FEEDS ENVIRONMENT GLOOM |
| In Sydney airport's crowded international terminal, passengers make last-minute passport checks or fret over toddlers in pushchairs as they wait in the snaking queue to check in for the 23-hour flight to London. But few of the 400 passengers crammed on to each jumbo jet taking off over Botany Bay ever consider the environmental impact of their 17,000-km (10,500-mile) intercontinental trip. |
| https://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/24/bt.airline.boom.gloom.reut/index.html |
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| PUTIN PROMISE TO RATIFY KYOTO |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised, delighted and confounded his critics by pledging to move quickly on ratification of the Kyoto climate change treaty. "We are in favour of the Kyoto process. We will rapidly move towards ratification of this Protocol," Mr Putin said. |
| https://www.edie.net/news/Archive/8416.cfm |
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| EPA REFINES MOBILE SOURCE EMISSIONS ESTIMATE MODEL
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| EPA has announced the availability and official approval of MOBILE6.2 for use in state implementation plans (SIPs) and transportation conformity analyses. The recent Federal Register notice establishes the two year period before Mobile6.2 is required in all transportation analyses.
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| https://www.epa.gov/otaq/m6.htm
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| This newsletter contains information gleaned from various sources on the
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in no way affiliated with Lakes Environmental.
Lakes Environmental is a leading environmental IT company which offers a
complete line of air dispersion modeling, risk assessment, and emergency
release software as well as training and custom software services. With
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