Yale E360

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As temperatures rise, warmer weather will spur some trees to release a chemical known to worsen air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By tweeting real-time local pollution data in developing countries, U.S. embassies helped spur measurable improvements in air quality, a new study finds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Our reliance on petroleum-based transportation fuels represents California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, by far, and will continue to be until the 2040s, even as we transition to zero emission cars and trucks.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

by Jenni Shearston, University of Colorado Boulder The Globeville, Elyria-Swansea and Commerce City communities in metro Denver are choked by air pollution from nearby highways, an oil refinery and a Superfund site. While these neighborhoods have long suffered from air pollution, theyre not the only ones in Colorado.

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New Scientist

JUNE 20, 2024

air pollution An aerial survey of Los Angeles reveals that high temperatures cause plants to emit more compounds that can contribute to harmful ozone and PM2.5

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Inside Climate News

MAY 1, 2024

a type of air pollutant, to estrogen decrease during the menopause transition. By Gina Jiménez Some air pollutants can disrupt hormone levels during the menopause transition, possibly exacerbating symptoms, according to a paper published earlier this year in the journal Science of Total Environment.

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Cleannovate

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the midst of our bustling urban jungles, indoor sanctuaries, and industrial landscapes, the air we breathe is far from pristine. The air pollution crisis is not just an environmental concern; it’s a silent assailant affecting our health, quality of life, and the very air we depend […]

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As EPA tightens air pollution standards for particulate matter, new research suggests some components of that pollution could worsen with climate change

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A study released on the eve of the conference found that 8 million people around the world die annually from air pollution. And experts say the crisis is worsening. By Victoria St. Martin In one home video, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah bops to a choreographed Beyoncé dance.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 8, 2025

Air pollution exposure disparities among ethnic groups in high-income countries: A scoping review. link] Abstract Background The adverse health effects of air pollution are well-established. Agyemang, C., & Vaartjes, I. Environmental Research, 267, 120647.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2021

for air pollution. Baltimore has two active trash incinerators and decades of pollution from both active and decommissioned industrial factories. A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […].

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Assessing public support for air pollution mitigation and control policies: Health, socioeconomic, and ideological predictors in an overburdened and vulnerable region of the U.S. Zarate-Gonzalez, G., Brown, P., & Cisneros, R. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 263.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

As early as 1966 , the state began to take regulatory action to reduce pollution from passenger cars and trucks. As a result of continuing progress on regulations, the air-polluting emissions of new passenger vehicles currently for sale are thankfully much lower than those of older vehicles. Combining the PM 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Clean Air Council said US Steel is taking steps to comply with the lawsuit settlement to reduce harmful air pollution from the Clairton Coke [Coal] Works in Allegheny County. The lawsuit was filed in response to thousands of violations of air pollution limits after the massive fire at U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

California’s air pollution regulator, the Air Resources Board, is poised to adopt one of the most important steps that the state has ever taken to reduce exposure to air pollution and limit climate changing emissions. Source: California Air Resources Board GHG Emissions Inventory Data.

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewable Rikers coalition tells DEC that Rikers power plant permit conflicts with both city law mandating closure of Rikers jails by 2027 and state climate law

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

by Shao Lin, University at Albany, State University of New York; Arshad Arjunan Nair, University at Albany, State University of New York; Fangqun Yu, University at Albany, State University of New York, and Quan Qi, University at Albany, State University of New York Long-term high ultrafine particle concentrations in New York state neighborhoods are (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Children in communities of color and low-income communities were more highly exposed to air pollution. Interactions: Babies living in economically disinvested neighborhoods in their first year of life and exposed to air pollution were more likely to be diagnosed with autism.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

So of course the American Lung Association ’s yearly report, State of the Air (SOTA), published every year since 2000, is of professional and personal interest. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022. We cannot change the topography.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

Burning gas and coal leads to carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants. Air pollutants contribute to all of the leading causes of death, such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, and respiratory illness. Now we have increasing evidence air pollution contributes to dementia as well.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. And across the United States, the transportation sector is now the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Air pollution from ports comes from many sources: ships, trains, tugboats, cargo equipment, and – quite importantly – the trucks that move cargo containers to and from ports. Because drayage trucks tend to be among the oldest tractor trucks on the road, they tend to pollute at greater rates than other tractors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2021

Low or zero emission zones, which prioritize the use of cleaner vehicles, are a promising tool in benefitting communities disproportionately burdened by air pollution.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Insects may be finding it harder to locate flowers because the scent molecules released by the flowers smell different after they react with pollutants in the air

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This process requires the facilities’ reports to include a section for each health impact associated with the air pollutants they will emit. Thanks to this requirement, Minnesota found that companies actually reduced their planned air pollution level (in their permits) to decrease the size and complexity of the report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Switching from gasoline and diesel engines to electric motors is one of the most effective ways to reduce both global warming emissions and air pollution. UCS supports Proposition 30 because it will reduce air pollution and global-warming emissions in the state. Who supports Proposition 30 and why?

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Yale E360

JANUARY 27, 2022

Once known as the “City of Smoke,” Pittsburgh has come a long way since the days when filthy air turned downtown streets dark at mid-day. But in struggling communities near the remaining steel plants, high levels of air pollution — and the resulting health hazards — persist. Read more on E360 ?.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve air pollution violations-- over $12.6 million in penalty payments and $5 million in local community environmental restoration funding. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Of course, continuing to strengthen public health-based standards to cut harmful air pollution from burning fossil fuels, including sulphur dioxide and particulate matter, is essential and lifesaving.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 pollution reached 155 micrograms per cubic unit. Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. I was wrong.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But now residents of the nation’s most coal-intensive region are suing to force the government to clean up choking air pollution. Close ties between the ruling elite and the coal industry have helped perpetuate South Africa’s dependence on the dirtiest fossil fuel for electricity. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2021

Climate champs Senators Whitehouse and Schatz introduced a solutions-oriented bill today that would put a price on emissions of heat-trapping gases as well as criteria air pollutants and use the revenues to mitigate the impacts of the policy on consumers, workers, and communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2021

The world must reach net-negative CO2 emissions by midcentury, not only to slow the pace of climate change, but to reduce the millions deaths yearly from fossil fuel air pollution. Much of the burden of our energy choices falls on Black and brown communities.

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