DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Power plants are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, and the pollution standards, which are open for public comment until August 8, will mark a new milestone in climate action. National policy must avoid imprudent attempts to make ‘great leaps forward,’” declared Philip Sporn in 1967.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 18, 2024

Despite regulations passed in 2015, fewer than 5% of these plants operate with modern systems to clean up air pollutants from their chimneys. In China, 95% of coal-fired power plants were fitted with clean-up technologies by 2013. Six hundred coal power plants generate more than 70% of India’s electricity. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A coroner is calling for national limits on air pollution to be reduced to match World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and made enforceable by law. Inner South London Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow ruled in December last year that air pollution exposure contributed to nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in February 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

Individuals and entities linked to climate denial, fossil fuels and high pollution industries donated more than £3.5 High-Pollution Industries Aviation entrepreneur Christopher Harborne donated the largest total sum to the Conservatives in 2022, gifting £1.5 million to the Conservative Party last year, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. But to my mind, this is not an argument for not increasing taxes on polluting activity. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

The researchers analyzed data from more than 500 samples of fish filets collected in the US from 2013 to 2015 under monitoring programs by the EPA, the National Rivers and Streams Assessment and the Great Lakes Human Health Fish Fillet Tissue Study. According to the pfasfree.org.uk

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A rendering of MethaneSat | Image courtesy of Google Google announced a partnership with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today to map methane pollution and oil and gas infrastructure from space. Meanwhile, Google is using AI to map oil and gas infrastructure to create a global map of pollution sources.

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Climate-KIC

DECEMBER 10, 2017

With its innovation, Graviky Labs turns air pollution into ink—facilitating artistic expression while making an important statement about the environment. Anirudh Sharma was raised in Mumbai, India—a city with high levels of air pollution, where many suffer from lung disease and cancer.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

China China has 124 gW this year and has grown by 10 gW since 2014 and by 44 gW since 2013. Continuous growth is helping, in part, to alleviate its pollution problems, although it will need to invest more money in this type of source to be able to truly reduce them.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 7, 2021

One welcome side effect has been reduced light pollution. star count organized by a charity called CPRE found that light pollution continues to drop, with a 10% reduction since last year. If a person could only see 10 or fewer stars , that was considered severe light pollution. skies are the darkest they’ve been since 2013.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Latest report from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee warns the UK's current strategy to combat air pollution needs to be beefed up. levels in line with World Health Organisation guidelines, before establishing long-term targets for other key pollutants, including NO2 and ammonia.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Defeat devices consist of hardware and/or software that bypass pollution sensors, allowing vehicles to pass emissions inspections while still emitting high levels of smog-causing pollutants such as nitrogen oxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2022

AQMesh pods incorporate measurement of a broad range of air pollutant gases in a single device. Since 2013, AQMesh pods have been able to monitor gases and particles in one instrument. The sunshield was first added to AQMesh pods in 2013 to minimise the impact of direct sunlight on pod sensors. Long distance scaling.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2020

Here’s the problem: we don’t have the extensive air quality information we need to reduce pollution. Built by two atmospheric chemists, QuantAQ’s air quality sensors are smaller than a microwave, cost a fraction of traditional pollution measurements, offer continuous rather than hourly data, and are simple to install and operate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

It might help avoid interiors becoming too dry, reducing indoor air pollution, attractive in countries like India. In 2013, the Ithaka Institute in Switzerland produced the first structure using this material, which is currently undergoing testing. Biochar is a porous material made from the pyrolysis of wood and other plant material.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 24, 2020

Here’s the problem: we don’t have the extensive air quality information we need to reduce pollution. Built by two atmospheric chemists, QuantAQ’s air quality sensors are smaller than a microwave, cost a fraction of traditional pollution measurements, offer continuous rather than hourly data, and are simple to install and operate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. Then EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks to the National Press Club on climate change and power plants in September 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

billion) — counts major polluters among its clients, and has defended two companies sued over allegedly polluting local communities. . He added that “it is unfortunate that a firm with a reputation for helping polluters will be given access to the heart of negotiations to advise COP26”. History of Polluting Clients.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Recent research published in Global Environmental Change has revealed that only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. According to the study, regular “super emitters” are polluting the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly. In 2018, airlines produced a billion tons of CO2.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study. It can corrode drinking water pipes , exacerbating lead pollution in water supplies, as it did in Flint, Michigan. Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

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The City Fix

JULY 13, 2023

Since 2013, WRI India’s annual flagship event, Connect Karo, has served as a platform for facilitating dialogue between policymakers, experts. Join us July 17-18 for Connect Karo 2023 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Register now and review the agenda.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

California’s system for capping and trading greenhouse gases is aimed at a global crisis, climate change, but the argument over the scheme centers on a local issue: dirty air spreading within neighborhoods surrounding polluting factories and power plants. On one side are advocates for climate action. There was no evidence of cause and effect.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. A 2013 study found that adding a row of trees between a roadway and nearby houses reduced pollution levels in the houses by 50 percent.)

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The report identifies 10 tactics that polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians often deploy to deflect accountability for the impacts of fossil fuel production and pollution on the environment and human health. Many of the industry’s tactics are familiar, such as obscuring or denying the true effects of pollution.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The authors do not present this level of net population detail by population characteristic or for other pollution types.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

per cent between 2013 and 2018, while their distribution contracted by 9.3 The report also highlights a lack of progress on reducing waste levels, highlighting that the number of fly-tipping incidents in England has risen by 36 per cent between 2013 and 2018, with levels of residual waste on the rise as well.

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