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Evening Standard comment: Plug It In, London, for a cleaner future

Air pollution is a silent killer, with up to 36,000 deaths a year attributed to long-term exposure. Toxic air has been linked to the development of strokes, heart disease and exacerbates asthma.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan says opportunity to cut pollution being squandered by Government

Government plans to reduce the most harmful form of air pollution do not go far enough and will condemn a generation of children to ill health, Sadiq Khan has warned.

Evening Standard

Streets in Bristol with the worst air pollution

Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK each year

Bristol Post

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Clean Air Day: Parents urged to ditch the car and cycle children to school

Parents and children in London are being encouraged to ditch the car and use active travel for the school run on Thursday to mark Clean Air Day.

Evening Standard

Climate change and air pollution are wrecking children’s health, a landmark review reveals

New research highlights the public health threat of climate change and air pollution to children and offers recommendations to healthcare professionals.

Inverse

'Forever chemical' response may push costs to water utilities - Roll Call

Federal efforts to address pollution by so-called forever chemicals may push increased costs onto water and wastewater agencies.

Roll Call

The most polluted areas of Wales revealed

People in more deprived areas are likely to be breathing the most polluted air

Wales Online

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Lanarkshire MP presents scouts with badges for tackling plastic pollution

Lanark and Hamilton East MP Angela Crawley visited youngsters at Carluke Scouts last week.

Daily Record

Focus on infra creation in Visakhapatnam - Chennai Industrial Corridor, A.P. CM tells officials

Jagan advocates creation of a fund to fund initiatives to check pollution

The Hindu

Don’t fear LA’s ban on gas stoves. Electric appliances are the future

Los Angeles is taking a necessary and overdue step in the fight against climate change and lung-damaging air pollution. The City Council voted last month to ban most natural gas-fueled appliances in newly constructed residential and commercial buildings, aiming to get the new rules in place by Jan. 1, 2023.

Los Angeles Times

Barcelona to install sound level monitors in bid to beat noise pollution

Noise meters will be deployed to confirm ‘acoustically stressed’ areas where action will be taken

The Guardian - UK

South Africa's estuaries face a growing threat from pollution: we took a close look at four

The Conversation

Air pollution in fast-growing African cities presents a risk of premature death

Ten more African cities have signed on to the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration to improve air quality. C40 is an international group of mayors collaborating to make cities more environmentally sustainable.

The Conversation

Air pollution got worse during lockdown in many countries, study finds

University of Chicago reports little change in global average particulate pollution in 2020, with increases in areas such as India

The Guardian - UK

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The Hindu

Delhi government proposes to empower local bodies, station house officers to act against noise pollution

The Delhi government has proposed to the Union Environment Ministry to designate SHOs as an authority to prosecute violators under noise pollution rules.

Bangkok Post

Pollution cuts life expectancy by two years

Air pollution shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: New rules for poultry farms from January 23

CHENNAI: Poultry farms with more than 25,000 birds at a single location will now have to obtain consent to establish (CTE) and consent to operate (CTO) under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, the State Pollution Control…

Newcastle Herald

How a $0 Maitland land acquisition will cost taxpayers $20 million

The former director and owner of Rutherford's Truegain was not paid any money by the NSW government when it acquired the former business site for remediation after decades of pollution of the ground, air and water.

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The Independent UK

Toxic UK air ‘triggering chronic lung conditions and life-threatening asthma attacks’ for millions

As many as 3.4 million people affected, according to estimates

The Hindu

NHRC issues notice to Haryana govt over landfill site

The Central Pollution Control Board had in 2017 found that the groundwater of three villages near the landfill was contaminated.

The Hindu

Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to stipulate more conditions for agencies collecting biodegradable waste

Pollution Control Board approval and panchayat clearance needed

The Guardian - UK

Animals farmed: pigs cloned by robots, horsemeat trial and bird flu culls

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

Zenger

Sticky Business: Cobwebs Could Help To Easily Determine Amount Of Micro Plastic In The Air

Microplastics consist of tiny pollutants that often elude detection, until scientists recently found that they can be snatched from the air by spider webs just like flies.

The Independent UK

Ocean plastic pollution could be source of new antibiotics, study suggests

Scientists say they could isolate five antibiotic-producing bacteria from ocean plastic

The Guardian - UK

Plastitar: mix of tar and microplastics is new form of pollution, say scientists

Researchers in Canary Islands coin term for new type of marine pollution they say could be leaking toxic chemicals into oceans

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