Greening Your Fourth
Happy Fourth of July tomorrow! We know lots of you are looking for ways to make your celebration more sustainable. We looked at all the stories and here are the best suggestions.
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London’s Mayor Announces Clean Air Day to Happen Sept. 22nd
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has called air pollution “the biggest public health emergency of a generation” and has made tackling the problem an utmost priority during his tenure. This past April, London became the first city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission Zone, inside which vehicles have […]
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Trump Proposes Replacement for Clean Power Plan That Favors Coal
The Trump Administration yesterday proposed to replace one of the signature domestic climate change achievements of the Obama Administration — the Clean Power Plan to cut emissions from coal plants — with the “Affordable Clean Energy” or ACE Rule — that essentially gives coal power plants more time and flexibility to cut toxic air emissions, which experts say could give those plants authority to increase their emissions in the short run.
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Hero of the Week: Ma Jun, Chinese Anti-Pollution Activist
This week we salute Ma Jung, a former investigative reporter in China who has been pressuring the Chinese government and private companies for more than a decade to reduce pollution. For good reason, according to the World Health Organization, a staggering 1 million people in China died due to air pollution in 2016. Wow. Ma […]
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Trump EPA Overruled Own Scientists to Help Taiwanese Co. Build a Plant in WI
A recent freedom of information request by the Sierra Club and Clean Wisconsin revealed that EPA officials under pressure from President Trump, overruled concerns of career scientists about air pollution and public health in an effort to help Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn secure $4 billion in tax breaks to build a flat-screen factory in Racine […]
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Reductions in air pollution reduce rates of childhood asthma in Los Angeles
According to the EPA, researchers have long linked asthma— a serious and life-threatening chronic respiratory disease that affects the quality of life of more than 23 million Americans— with exposure to air pollution. Cities with some of the worst air pollution have the highest rates of asthma but if those cities cleaned up their air […]
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