RIVER ROUGE: SIerra Club: DTE power plant needs to close or embrace … – Southgate News Herald

RIVER ROUGE: SIerra Club: DTE power plant needs to close or embrace
Southgate News Herald
Citing environmental contamination and a contribution to physical ailments such as asthma in the local population, several representatives of the club spoke to members of the media Thursday morning at Belanger Park and also offered a short tour of DTE
Sierra Club calls on DTE to end use of coal in producing energy at River Rouge Detroit Free Press

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Sierra Club calls on DTE to end use of coal in producing energy at River Rouge … – Detroit Free Press

Sierra Club calls on DTE to end use of coal in producing energy at River Rouge
Detroit Free Press
The group cites a 2004 report by the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit group dedicated to reducing pollution, that blames the River Rouge plant for several deaths, heart attacks and asthma attacks over the years. Alisha Winters, 31, a

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Sierra Clubs in Maine, NH, Call for Stricter Pollution Controls on Schiller Plant – MPBN News


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Sierra Clubs in Maine, NH, Call for Stricter Pollution Controls on Schiller Plant
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Corkery says in particular, sulfur dioxide–or SO2–has been linked to asthma attacks, cardiac distress, and respiratory problems. She says in 2010, Schiller emitted over 3000 tons of SO2. That amount falls within current federal standards,

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Sierra Club releases ad featuring asthmatic children – State Journal

Sierra Club releases ad featuring asthmatic children
State Journal
By Taylor Kuykendall, Reporter – email An advertisement from national environmentalists groups he asks the question what "if every polluter's lobbyist was suddenly replaced by asthmatic children." The commercial, posted to YouTube, proposes that the
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New Ad: What If Polluter Lobbyists in Washington Were Replaced with Asthmatic Utility Products
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Sierra Club: More Cities Should Imitate Duluth to Help Asthma Sufferers – FOX 21 Online

Sierra Club: More Cities Should Imitate Duluth to Help Asthma Sufferers
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The second reason is more than 400000 Minnesotans suffer from asthma. Doctors say many attacks come on because of air pollution. “One of the scariest things we have to do in rural emergency rooms is put a child or an adult with asthma on a helicopter
Sierra Club urges clean air legislation during Rochester eventPost-Bulletin
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