Envirotec Magazine
MAY 9, 2023
Dozens of health, environment and transport businesses and charities are calling for the government to change course on its Air Quality Strategy. Members of the coalition include Asthma and Lung UK, Impact on Urban Health and Campaign for Better Transport. Image credit: Alena Veasey / Shutterstock.com.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 19, 2021
I note how many of these drivers already had breathing problems, which the infection worsened – this raises the question of whether drivers’ exposure to polluted air at work contributed to their underlying poor health. Exposure to air pollution at work is only part of the overall risk Londoners face from our toxic air.
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GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to stem the widespread use of the highly toxic chemical.
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
The US Environmental Protection Agency's has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine particulate air pollution. The post Heart attacks, cancer, dementia: Four essential reads on the health effects driving US EPA’s fine particle air pollution standard appeared first on RenewEconomy. Scientists explain why.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 17, 2022
The UK government announced new environmental targets in four key areas of air quality, water, waste reduction and woodland cover on 16 March. On air quality, the government has proposed a legally-binding target to halve the levels of PM2.5 particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m Air quality. g/m 3 to 10 ?g/m
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 24, 2023
Santiago, Chile: The country hosted eight of the most polluted cities in the Americas in 2022. Key findings The top five most polluted countries in 2022 were: Chad (89.7 The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. annual guideline Iraq (80.1 annual guideline.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 17, 2021
In 2010, the European Respiratory Society appealed to physicians to “recognise that air pollution is the largest environmental challenge for European citizens, one that currently limits the fundamental right of all individuals to breathe clean air. The effect of poor air quality on the health and wellbeing of people is well documented.
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