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Chief Justice NV Ramana: Profit driven corporatisation of India's healthcare system denies poor access to treatment

NEW DELHI: Highlighting the "growing and unchecked" corporatisation of healthcare system in the country, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Tuesday said that the profit-driven approach of hospitals denies the poor access to healthcare and exorbitant cost charged by them forces people to suppress their health care needs and…

The Times of India

Greece: 1.9 billion-euro subsidy for September power hikes

Greece's environment and energy minister has announced a 1.9 billion-euro ($1.89 billion dollar) subsidy for September to help households and businesses cope with increasing electricity prices

The Independent UK

National Green Tribunal is suddenly clearing a lot of cases. It’s, well, odd

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha last month, union minister for law and justice Kiren Rijiju revealed that the National Green Tribunal, a quasi-judicial body to adjudicate environment matters, was disposing of more cases than new applications. However, members of several NGT benches have raised concerns over the…

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Environment Agency says it's taking North Sea sewage issue seriously amid 'don't swim' warnings

There are don't swim warnings for beaches in Northumberland, North Tyneside and South Shields due to storm sewage being pumped into the North Sea

Chronicle Live

Algae Protein…New Source to Feed Animals

Animal feed is vital for the global food security, but it deeply affects the environment given the amount of greenhouse emissions emitted during its production and processing. Yet, new innovations and techniques could help provide sustainable and clean solutions in this field. New feed source The King Abdullah University of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Liz Truss accused of having 'sewage on her hands' as discharge 'doubled' after budget cuts

The Tory leadership frontrunner presided over efforts to slash £235m from the Environment Agency's budget when she was at Defra

Daily Mirror

Government ‘has head in the sand’ over sewage pumped on to UK’s beaches, says Labour

No 10 says it is duty of water firms to protect customers

The Independent UK

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Indigenous group says Tanya Plibersek ‘hasn’t done her homework’ on Burrup peninsula fertiliser plant

Save Our Songlines accuses environment minister of ‘false conclusions’ about support for development and says it risks ‘another Juukan Gorge’

The Guardian - AU

Colorado Republican turns Democrat over ‘existential threat’ from GOP

In letter announcing defection, state senator Kevin Priola cites political and environmental threat from his erstwhile party

The Guardian - US

NSW calls for environment ministers meet

The NSW government wants Canberra to summon the country's environment ministers to develop a united strategy to combat threats.

AAP

Green light for contentious WA urea plant

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has rejected an application to pause works on a contentious West Australian fertiliser plant.

AAP

Tanya Plibersek declines to fast-track Senex Energy gas project

Tanya Plibersek knocks back a request to exempt an energy project in southern Queensland from assessment against environmental laws, saying she is "not satisfied" it is in the national interest.

ABC News

SA environment boss to head to Victoria

The boss of South Australia's Environment Protection Authority has quit to take up a position with Recycling Victoria.

AAP

Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’ – Labour

Raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Fears over English shellfish as untreated waste dumped in water

Untreated human waste dumped in waters containing shellfish 29,000 times last year, Environment Agency data shows

Inverse

Need a better AC? This new design can keep both Earth and humans cool

With worsening heat waves, we will increasingly rely on air conditioning, but the chemicals used in AC units are terrible for the environment. Now, researchers have proposed a new type of eco-friendly unit.

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss ‘has sewage on her hands’ over Environment Agency cuts

Exclusive: Truss oversaw cut in funds to tackle water pollution, since when raw sewage discharge has risen

The Guardian - AU

Tanya Plibersek backs contentious fertiliser plant on Burrup peninsula

Federal environment minister says Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation supports development despite concerns over impact on culturally important sites

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Water regulator giving companies a ‘licence to leak’, say MPs and charities

Ofwat is criticised for failing to curb huge bonuses for CEOs of companies that pollute

WEKU

7,000 construction workers are needed for Ohio's largest economic development project

Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment.

Daily Mirror

Exactly how MPs voted on dumping sewage into UK seas and rivers – fact-checked

Campaigners say 265 Tory MPs betrayed the environment in an October 2021 Commons vote. But the MPs said overall they're tightening the law, and the plan they rejected wasn't practical. Here's the argument explained

The Independent UK

Government ‘has head in the sand’ over sewage pumped on to UK’s beaches – Labour

Amid growing calls for ministers to clamp down on those contributing to pollution, Number 10 said it was the duty of water firms to protect customers.

Evening Standard

Government ‘to blame for sorry mess’ of sewage on our beaches’, says Feargal Sharkey

Feargal Sharkey said the problems were ‘definitely’ linked to Brexit, citing a legal challenge launched by the European Commission against the UK.

Chronicle Live

'Don't swim' advice in Northumberland and South Shields - Alerts show sewage discharges near three beaches

Alerts on the Safer Seas Service map show the Environment Agency is warning against swimming at some popular North East beaches

Fortune

Why the Business Roundtable has lost its environmental enthusiasm

The business group omitted the environment from a recent statement and opposed Democrats’ landmark climate bill.

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