Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Wastewater treatment must be improved to reduce exposure to human faecal pathogens in treated effluent, according to a new report published on 21 May by the National Engineering Policy Centre. The report notes the rise in recreational activities in coastal and inland open waters across the UK, leading to greater public exposure to pollutants.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Achieving and sustaining that level of action requires that people are not incapacitated by climate anxiety or despair.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. The battle against climate change is vital.

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Grist

JUNE 1, 2021

A new study suggests that climate change was responsible for many of those deaths. The paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, scrutinized summertime deaths in 43 countries between 1991 and 2018 — the largest collection of heat mortality data ever assembled.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

This change in approach will help us in the pursuit of the targets we are setting under the Environment Act.’”. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m Evidence of the pubic health problem presented by PM2.5 Air quality. On air quality, the government has proposed a legally-binding target to halve the levels of PM2.5

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

EVs are also expected to deliver benefits in terms of human health, but this has not been extensively studied. Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The states will have to develop their own policies or incentives to deploy all these heat pumps. But it shows how much hype there is around heat pumps in the fight against climate change. And with national climate policies hanging in the balance during upcoming presidential elections, state-led efforts become more crucial.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2020

By Sarah Spengeman and Surili Patel, Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association. The vast majority of the pollution that damages human health is produced by burning fossil fuels to power our homes, cars, and businesses. But it doesn’t have to be this way. It’s that simple.

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Grist

JANUARY 24, 2024

.” Pedja Stojicic, instructor at Harvard’s school of public health The spotlight As climate impacts intensify, health care professionals are increasingly finding themselves at the front lines. From the perils of extreme heat to the spread of infectious diseases, climate change is a health crisis.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What public policies are needed?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Published on 20 Februar in Nature Climate Change , the study appeared to find that exported used vehicles generate at least 13-53% more emissions per mile than those that are scrapped or on the road in Great Britain. The data seemed to reveal substantially higher rates of carbon dioxide and pollution generation in exported vehicles.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us. But loons, like so many other birds, are threatened by climate change.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

At the close of 2023, Defra asked the British Ecological Society to bring together nearly 40 experts, to collate expert opinion on freshwater policy and set out a list of priorities for the biodiversity evidence programme to focus on. Published on 21 March, the new report sets out priorities for restoring England’s polluted fresh waters.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution. one of the most dangerous forms of pollution.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Man is altering the balance of a relatively stable system by his pollution of the atmosphere with smoke, fumes and particles from. They reveal that within a year of the conference the issue of CO2-caused climate change would be brought to the attention of policy makers inside the U.S. Government.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A landmark clean energy law enacted this year in Virginia will only equate to a 26 percent reduction in emissions economy-wide by 2050, according to a new analysis, leaving the state far from the cuts required to stave off the worst effects of climate change. was beginning to recognize the severity of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

In his first State of the State address , a little over a year ago, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine took time out to recognize his “amazing” health and human services team, asking them to stand in the House Chamber of the Statehouse for applause. Good news: Americans can freak out about coronavirus and climate change at the same time.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 25, 2024

The Biden administration pledged to cut its carbon pollution in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade under that agreement. “A A piecemeal approach isn’t going to get us there,” writes Marcene Mitchell, World Wildlife Fund senior vice president of climate change, in comments emailed to The Verge.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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GreenBiz

JUNE 26, 2020

But for Black people living near industrial facilities, the phrase has an additional layer of meaning: a reminder of their disproportionate pollution burden. It’s impossible to untangle Black communities’ current risks from America’s long history of racist policies and practices.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If I may simplify the two men’s stances, Donald Trump’s energy policy looks backward to the energy that powered our past, and Biden is looking forward to the fuels of the future. Rather, I'm here to highlight that candidates who support clean energy policy are also supporting economic, climate and social justice policies. .

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate tech for social change, welcomes five new climate fellows to its Policy Lab. Created in 2021, the Policy Lab was founded to accelerate and implement solutions at the seam of technology, policy, equity and justice.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. He dubbed his project “ Dirty Pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.”

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Ahead of next week's Net Zero Nature Summit, Sarah McDonald, vice president of sustainability at GSK Consumer Healthcare, reveals how the company is collaborating on a call to action to ensure climate and health strategies are better aligned. What's already happening and what's missing?

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 9, 2019

Every year, more and more Americans tell pollsters they believe in climate change, yet insufficient action has been taken by business and government to solve the problem. Great strides on critical climate change issues like reduced consumption from energy efficiency and higher gas mileage standards are welcome news.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What we do have, when it comes to regulations that address climate change, is a decidedly duller but still effective tool called the social cost of carbon, or SCC. The implication is that the benefits of government policies and other actions that reduce global warming pollution are greater than has been assumed.”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Its decisions impact the air we breathe (indoors and outside), the water we drink, the food we eat, the health of the children we give birth to and raise, the cars and fuel we purchase, the beaches where we swim, the chemicals we consume (voluntarily or involuntarily) or the quality of nature that we enjoy. James Barnes, John D.

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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 This revelation comes on the government’s supposed ‘green day’, when it has announced a long list of policies on energy and the transition to net zero. million to the party, which had an income of £31.7

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. “We’ve had research for 30 years now saying that plastics are dangerous to our health,” said Aidon Charron, director of End Plastic Initiatives at EarthDay.org. To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Researchers, including Basu, had already documented the impacts of air pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ohio’s adoption of gerrymandered voting district maps last week is the latest in a series of anti-democratic measures that thwart action to address climate change, critics say. Data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication show a majority of Ohioans believe climate change is happening and worry about it.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Read on for key policy developments and advocacy opportunities in the U.S., Now is the time to celebrate this milestone in methane policy! Underscore the critical role methane regulations play in combating climate change, and the importance of robust implementation. and a personal update from me at the end.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. Finally, the climate crisis is worse than it’s ever been. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections.

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