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We're sitting idle on the toxic fumes harming our kids

It's as easy as disengaging a button or key but it's taken a long time to spread the message that idling engines near schools is a danger to children's health.

AAP · Mar 7

After years of gains, Republicans in Congress push to roll back chemical regulations

In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the potential impact on public health if the Toxic Substances Control Act is weakened.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 6

Tackling air pollution should be part of government work to cut cancer rates, scientists say

New European Code Against Cancer calls on politicians to phase out use of fossil fuels in homes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6

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Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns

At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5

Ferries emit ‘more sulphur pollution than cars’ in several EU capitals

Dublin, Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn among port cities more choked by sulphur oxides from ferries, analysis shows

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2

Scientists find ‘dramatic change’ in ant nests due to air pollution

Ants recognise nestmates by comparing their smell to their colony’s odour

The Independent UK · Mar 2

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests

Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1

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Most US coal plants could meet air pollution rules. Trump weakened them anyway

EPA found only 27 of 219 plants needed upgrades; 71 later got exemptions as Donald Trump scrapped mercury limits

The Guardian - US · Feb 27

Indoor Air Quality and Inflammation: How Household Pollution Fuels Chronic Disease and Systemic Health Risks

Discover how poor indoor air quality triggers chronic inflammation. Learn the health effects of PM2.5, VOCs, and household pollutants—and ways to protect your health.

Medical Daily · Feb 25

Group expands legal claim over South West Water sewage pollution

Thousands more people across Devon and Cornwall could join case against water firm

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25

‘If we see you again, we kill you’: how a Colombian wildlife hotspot turned into a death zone

Armed groups and a state-owned refinery’s oil leaks have displaced Barrancabermeja’s fishing community and poisoned a paradise once full of manatees and jaguars

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24

Yorkshire Water fined over £700,000 for repeated sewage releases

Company admits three pollution events that killed fish and insects in Pools Brook country park near Chesterfield

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23

Afternoon Update: clean-up order to tackle Sydney fatberg; Mexico violence after cartel boss killed; and a bear at the Baftas

NSW Environment Protection Authority on Monday said it had issued a pollution reduction program to Sydney Water

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23

Sydney Water ordered to clean Malabar treatment plant where fatberg is birthing poo balls

Environment watchdog says water corporation is ‘responsible for ensuring it doesn’t pollute our beautiful beaches’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23

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The Guardian - AU · Feb 22

Pollution from trucks and buses costs Australians $6.2bn in health effects each year, study finds

Research describes children exposed to air pollution equivalent to eight cigarettes a day by attending childcare near major roads

The Independent UK · Feb 21

The EPA just loosened mercury rules for coal plants. Here’s what the toxic metal can do to your health

Environmental and health groups blasted the decision, saying it would leave all Americans in danger

The Independent UK · Feb 20

Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say

The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20

Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds

Wood is primary heating in 2% of homes but contributes to producing 21% of country’s wintertime particle pollution

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 20

How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels

Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

The Guardian - US · Feb 19

Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human drug’s use was found in town’s wastewater

The Guardian - AU · Feb 19

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean

Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline in New Zealand

The Guardian - US · Feb 18

Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

The Independent UK · Feb 17

Major study directly links air pollution to increased Alzheimer’s risk

Independent experts say findings reinforce evidence that polluted air likely affects brain ‘in more direct ways’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16

What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage

Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements

The Guardian - US · Feb 14

Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure

Senators said repeal was ‘particularly troubling’ and was counter to EPA’s mandate to protect human health

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