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The plastic crisis has deep corporate roots: to protect our planet, they need to be exposed

This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology.

The Conversation

How year-round crops could reduce farm pollution in the Mississippi River

MINNEAPOLIS — Don Wyse's field of winter barley used to be mostly empty in the spring.

Tribune News Service

Police issues challan to BJP MP Manoj Tiwari for not wearing helmet during ‘Tiranga bike rally’

He was riding a motorcycle without helmet, licence, pollution control certificate: traffic police

The Hindu

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Safety concerns on remote NT's Roper Highway, as trucks start carting 300,000 tonnes of iron ore

Remote Arnhem Land residents worry iron ore trucks are making the Roper Highway increasingly more dangerous, and causing dust pollution.

ABC News

Andhra Pradesh: National Green Tribunal orders ONGC to pay ₹22 cr. to APPCB

GAIL ordered to operate units in strict compliance with norms

The Hindu

Noordung's New E-Bike Flaunts A Boombox And Air Pollution Sensors

Slovenian bicycle maker Noordung has released its latest innovation in the form of a carbon fiber e-bike equipped with a Boombox and air pollution sensors.

InsideEVs

NGT directs local bodies and TNPCB to strictly implement plastic waste management rules

State government asked to conduct awareness programmes

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Joe Manchin's secret climate "side deal"

Manchin cut a deal to boost oil and gas drilling in exchange for his support for climate change funding

Salon

Flood maps show US vastly underestimates contamination risk at old industrial sites

Climate science is clear: Floodwaters are a growing risk for many American cities, threatening to displace not only people and housing but also the land-based pollution left behind by earlier industrial activities.

The Conversation

Volunteers clean up 20kgs of dog poo in Wicklow village

A staggering 1,033.2kgs of pollution was removed from Irish rivers, canals, lakes, and beaches

Dublin Live

'Green' programs encourage Minnesota farmers to fight water pollution

A few years ago, Chisago County, Minnesota, farmer Max Gustafson needed a way to stop his cattle from wandering into a nearby wetland and polluting it in the process.

Tribune News Service

One of Merseyside's 'most important roads' where people want to leave

"It has got worse in the last ten years, there has been no let up."

Liverpool Echo

Revealed: The drugs that are poisoning Scotland’s water

MEDICINAL drugs have polluted Scotland’s waterways in breach of safety levels more than 2300 times over seven years, according to data released by…

The National (Scotland)

Sadiq Khan facing growing backlash over ULEZ expansion plans

Sadiq Khan is facing a growing backlash over plans to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone to cover the whole of Greater London, with the City Hall Conservatives describing the potential positive impact as “negligible”.As the public consultation over the plans comes to an end on Friday, City Hall has released…

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EVs weigh more than gas-powered models. Here's what that means for roads, owners and pedestrians

Electric vehicles weigh more than their internal combustion engine counterparts, and that has implications for maintenance, safety and even pollution.

The Guardian - UK

Why it’s not just the heat from heatwaves that puts us at risk

Dangerous air pollution can accompany hot weather due to fires and ozone buildup

The Times of India

MPCB lets Gondegaon coal washery open ‘with conditions’

NAGPUR: In a shocker for farmers and environmentalists, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has permitted Gondegaon coal washery to “conditionally restart” its operations.

Daily Record

Air pollution linked to dementia and cognitive decline in new UK government report

It was also found that more direct damage to the brain can be caused by air pollution.

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Belagavi MLA says Ganesh Mandals will celebrate festival as it has always been done

Officials, however, maintain rules, particularly those related to noise and water pollution, will be implemented strictly

The New Daily

‘From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean trenches’: How ocean plastics pollute the Earth

Tens of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution enters the ocean every year, where it can spend decades breaking down into toxic microplastics.

The Times of India

Delhi: Cash incentives to tackle farm fires?

NEW DELHI: Supporting Punjab government’s proposal to incentivise paddy farmers for not burning harvest stubble in the winter, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi government was “ready to do whatever it can” to reduce air pollution.

Zenger

Plastic Pollution Can Be Removed From Lakes By Naturally-Occurring Bacteria

The research team explained that bacteria break down the carbon compounds in plastic to use as food for their growth.

The Guardian - UK

Gull poo pollution warnings on Scottish beaches ‘out of proportion’, say experts

British Trust for Ornithology says droppings are ‘innocuous compared to wet wipes or dog poo in plastic’

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Port of LA’s broken clean-air pledges show the need for regulation

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are a hub of international trade, and also the biggest source of smog-forming emissions in Southern California because of their heavy concentration of diesel-guzzling trucks, ships, trains and cargo-handling equipment.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Want to fight climate change and drought at the same time? Bring back beavers

Millions of highly skilled environmental engineers stand ready to make our continent more resilient to climate change. They restore wetlands that absorb carbon, store water, filter pollution and clean and cool waters for salmon and trout. They are recognized around the world for helping to reduce wildfire risk. Scientists have…

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