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Mount St. Helens Erupts
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Volcano-cam 
Volcanic
ash can travel hundreds
to thousands of miles
downwind from a volcano.
Fresh volcanic ash
is gritty, abrasive, sometimes
corrosive,
and always unpleasant.
Although ash is not highly
toxic, it can
trouble infants, the elderly
and those with
respiratory ailments.
In ashy areas, use
dust masks and eye protection.
If you
don't have a dust mask,
use a wet handkerchief.
Small ash particles can
abrade the front
of the eye. The volcanic
gases that pose the greatest
potential
hazard are sulfur dioxide,
carbon dioxide, and hydrogen
fluoride. Volcanic eruptions: preparing and responding |
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Highlighted
Program
Clean Air Rules of
2004
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The Clean Air Rules are a suite
of actions that will dramatically improve
America's air quality. Three of the rules specifically address the
transport of pollution across state borders.
These rules provide national tools to achieve
significant improvement
in air quality and the associated benefits
of improved health, longevity and quality of
life for all Americans.
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EPA
Celebrates 20 Years
of Working With Tribes
In 1984 EPA became the first
federal agency to adopt a formal policy of working
with Indian tribes. That policy was reaffirmed
as the Agency helped celebrate the opening of
the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Indian.
More
... | Tribes
program | Smithsonian |
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Get
Involved Oct. 18
Help protect local water bodies by testing water
quality in your area. Volunteer monitoring groups,
water quality agencies, students, and the general
public are invited to test four key indicators
of water quality and report the results. It's all
part of World Water Monitoring Day, held October
18. Last year, people and groups in 24 countries
reported information about the health of their
local watersheds.
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$9.1
million to protect Great Lakes from Asian carp Oct 13 - EPA and
the Army Corps of Engineers announced funding
for construction of an electric barrier to keep
Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes,
to be completed by February 2005. Asian carp are a significant threat
to the Great Lakes because they are large, extremely prolific, and
consume vast amounts of food.
CITGO
to reduce refinery emissions Oct 6 - CITGO agreed to spend $320
million to reduce hazardous air emissions
from six refineries in five states. This settlement of an EPA enforcement
action will reduce harmful air emissions by more than 30,000 tons
per year.
