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How Contaminated Water Affects Human Health

The Environmental Blog

This article discusses how polluted water can affect human health in many ways. Once in the water, contaminants can impact human health, depending on their size, toxicity, and concentration. Some pollutants, such as viruses and bacteria, can cause infections or disease. What Is Water Contamination?

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. Looking back with regret.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

"There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. 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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Climate Justice Means Racial Justice

Sustainability Consulting

Power plants, toxic waste dumps, and other air and water polluting industries are more often located in poor neighborhoods where there is a higher concentration of people of color. Sadly, the location of these types of polluting industries has not changed over the years. Of those who did leave, many could not afford to return.

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Sensing evolution

Envirotec Magazine

In September 2021, the WHO noticeably reduced its yearly average PM (Particulate Matter) guideline values to 5 µg/m3, and in March, the UK government announced a consultation on new target levels for air pollutants to be included in the Environment Act, including a reduction in the PM2.5 Particulates and health. and PM10 (PM4.25

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California Gets Another 100MW Battery Project, as Competition with Gas Peakers Heats Up

GreenTechMedia

That corporate lineage is interesting in that AES became the first to contract a battery of this size when utility Southern California Edison awarded it the Alamitos contract in 2014. The organization is dedicated to expanding clean energy, and it hopes to use the battery to integrate renewables into the system.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. Looking back with regret.

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