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The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Anglian Water fined more than £500,000 after raw sewage kills 5,000 fish

Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan said: ‘We welcome this sentence. Serious pollution is a serious crime.’

Evening Standard

Will your gas range make you sick? Here's what the science says

Will the gas stove in your kitchen make you sick? Will it cause asthma in your kids?

Los Angeles Times

EPA moves away from Permian Basin air pollution crackdown

The oil industry pushed hard against the proposal to issue an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required that companies reduce oilfield emissions.

The Texas Tribune

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Sutton Council says it plans to block installation of Ulez cameras

London’s Ulez scheme is set to be expanded across the entire capital from next August, a move the mayor said would bring cleaner air to 5 million more residents

Evening Standard

EPA Backs Down from Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

Oil sector advocates pushed hard against an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required oilfield emissions reductions.

Texas Observer

North East Today: Call to replace Newcastle's Central Motorway and Joelinton drink-driving charge

Your midday briefing on all the latest from across the North East

Chronicle Live

EPA soot standard could save thousands

Health experts say it doesn’t go far enough to limit the deadly pollutant

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Washington is capping carbon emissions

The new system follows in California’s footsteps — except when it doesn’t

Salon

Single-use plastic bans: research shows three ways to make them effective

Governments around the world are introducing single-use plastic product bans to alleviate pollution.

The Conversation

Pollutionwatch: citizen science helps raise alarm on UK air pollution

Rising numbers of people are taking air pollution measurements to push authorities to take action

The Guardian - UK

Japan eyes delay of Fukushima plant water release

Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer,” indicating a delay from the initial target, after factoring in the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain public support

The Independent UK

Tasmanian business owner Tim Jenkins in court over Plenty River pollution that caused mass fish kill

A Tasmanian business owner appears in court for the first time after his company was charged with spilling waste material into a river north of Hobart, causing a significant fish kill.

ABC News

Carbon credit doubts remain, as farmers weigh up Chubb review findings, but market holds steady

With one method of gaining carbon credits put on hold and changes made to others, what does the Chubb review mean for farmers and Australia's big polluters?

ABC News

Manchin's gas stove defense flames out

Manchin says proposal to ban gas stoves to protect kids from chronic health problems is a "recipe for disaster"

Salon

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Evening Standard

The Standard View: Time for ministers to support Ella’s Law

Ella’s Law, otherwise known as the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, has already passed the Lords and now it is in the queue of private members’ bills waiting to come before the Commons.

Evening Standard

Mother’s plea: ‘Back Ella’s law to help save lives from toxic air’

MPs and ministers urged to make protection from pollution a human right

Bangkok Post

Study linking asthma and cooking gas stirs debate

PARIS: New research that links cooking with natural gas to around 12% of childhood asthma cases has sparked debate about the health risks of kitchen stoves, as well as calls in the United States for stepped-up regulation.

The Guardian - UK

‘Ticking timebomb’ as ageing landfill dumps threaten English beaches

Local government survey shows 26 councils have sites already spilling waste on to cliffs and into sea

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Reuters

U.N. calls for investigation into killing of two environmentalists in Honduras

A U.N. special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the killing of two environmental activists in Honduras, who had opposed an illegal mine polluting water supplies in a national reserve.

The Independent UK

Cocaine and E-coli 760 times acceptable levels detected in seawater

Strands of E.coli have infected Hampshire’s seas and caused locals to fall ill

Salon

GOP, Manchin fume over gas stove ban

A study that found that over 12% of childhood asthma can be attributable to gas stove pollution nationwide

Tribune News Service

After backlash, safety commission says gas stove ban unlikely

After industry backlash and bipartisan condemnation, Consumer Product Safety Commission Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric said on Wednesday his agency is not looking to ban gas stoves.

The Guardian - AU

Australia must not rely on emissions offsets if it is serious about climate crisis, Ian Chubb says

Head of carbon credit system review says absolute emissions cuts must be priority as Albanese government weighs up limits on use of credits

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water criticised over lack of investment in sewage treatment works

Campaigners say most sites cannot cope with amount of wastewater, raising risk of raw discharges into rivers

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Clean air should not be for sale. Why Chicago needs a clean buildings ordinance

As a young boy, my asthmatic lungs knew when harvest started in the nearby farm fields of central Illinois. Without a combine in sight, I knew that the work had begun.

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