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2025-05-23 Groups Sue Over Louisiana’s Ban On Air Monitoring
This is so shameful. 🙁 How could the state legislature, in good faith that they were passing a law “for the good of the people”, ban those people from determining if they were being harmed by the chemicals in the air? https://floodlightnews.org/environmental-groups-sue-over-louisianas-ban-on-community-air-monitoring/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
2024-04-25 New Rule Compels US Coal-fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions – Or Shut Down
The EPA https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/new-rule-compels-us-coal-fired-power-plants-to-capture-emissions-or-shut-down An earlier article about coal power plants https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/23/coal-power-plants-deaths-pollution
2024-04-06 Study Shows EVs Do What They Promise – Lower CO2, Pollution
UC Berkeley study. UC Berkeley study confirms that yes, EVs do what they promise to do
2024-02-15 A Legal Loophole Allows Gas Leaks To Keep On Flowing
It’s very sad. https://e360.yale.edu/features/natural-gas-midstream-emissions
2024-02-01 Domestic Wood Burners Have Deadly Impacts
This is similar to smoking tobacco products and the second hand smoke from them. There are the same byproducts of burning tobacco when burning wood. Heterocyclic amines and benzopyrene are two. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/domestic-wood-burners-having-a-deadly-impact-in-outside-areas?utm_term=65bb88efb89deac9b015f82bd2680cc4&utm_campaign=DownToEarth&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=greenlight_email Information about benzopyrene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzopyrene
2023-10-26 6 Of 9 Planetary Boundaries Have Been Breached
This chart shows the 9 Planetary Boundaries and how they have been breached. Some don’t look that alarming but *anything* past the green is bad. The Novel Entities is especially troubling. https://www.iasparliament.com/current-affairs/daily-news/breach-of-planetary-boundaries
2023-10-20 Ammonia From Farms Behind 60% Of UK PM2.5 Air Pollution – Study
Ammonia from farms, along with NOx, make up 40% of PM2.5 air pollution in other developed countries. The people should cut back on meat and dairy consumption – eat meat once a week. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/04/ammonia-from-farms-behind-60-of-uk-particulate-air-pollution-study
2023-10-13 California To Phase Out Gas Cars Over 12 Years
California is going to phase out gasoline cars over the next 12 years. Good read, but critical of some things I don’t think are necessary. Quote from article: “”Automakers will have to gradually electrify their fleet of new vehicles, beginning with 35% of 2026 models sold, increasing to 68% in 2030 and 100% for 2035
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2023-08-02 Researchers Link EVs With Better Air Quality & Health
This is just the early beginning of improvements in air quality and improved health. We just need to hurry up the changeover about a dozen times faster. Researchers Link Electric Cars With Better Air Quality & Improved Health
