air pollution, Tag

Unsafe at any level!  If the current administration’s Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] has its way, if any ambient-air dust is found inside an apartment building then that would require property owners to perform...

Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollution

Voluntary regulations for burning wood and coal to heat homes could help tackle impact on air pollution

Oil firms, petrostates, airlines and carmakers ‘doubling down’ on sector that is popular with young people

But sound science, not outlier studies, is needed to inform public policy in light of achievable technological change.

Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s electricity

IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring data

Country needs to speed up environmental response to protect its ageing population, multinational study finds

Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

Science Weekly revisits episode three of this 2023 mini-series from Full Story.

Climate summit’s opening days are a feast for the senses but air quality and smokestacks leave a bad taste

Of more than 8 million deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution, 61% linked to fossil fuels, finds study

Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5

World’s biggest carbon emitter approving equivalent of two new coal plants a week, analysis shows