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710 Freeway expansion dropped after decades of planning, marking a milestone for L.A.

LOS ANGELES — A decades-old plan to widen one of America's busiest cargo corridors was scrapped Thursday, as the agency acknowledged it must find a new way to lessen traffic without adding lanes.

Los Angeles Times

Senate confirms Steven Cliff to lead highway safety agency

The Senate has confirmed former California pollution regulator Steven Cliff to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The Independent UK

Recycled Treasures

It's not news that the ocean and its inhabitants are threatened by pollution and plastic is one key threat to the sea, however, the problem persists. Two Russians living in Thailand have collaborated in an attempt to alleviate the situation through an art exhibition called "Gifts Of The Sea". Guru…

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‘Front-row seats to the apocalypse’: Cannes doc takes on Delhi pollution, sectarian violence

India’s prolific movie industry enjoyed pride of place at the Cannes Film Festival, starring as the film market’s first-ever guest of honour. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Shaunak Sen about his stunning New Delhi-set documentary “All That Breathes”, which screened at the festival this week.

France 24

Northern Ireland environment bosses failing own targets on 40% of 'protected' habitats

Their shortcomings “reflect the state of our air, water and land” according to DAERA’s NI Environmental Statistics Report

Belfast Live

Big Tobacco is killing the planet with plastics. No smokescreen should be allowed to hide that

Greenwashing ploys cannot mask the pollution wreaked both by cigarettes and new nicotine products

The Guardian - UK

API residues causing pollution: NGT dismisses Centre's review application

SHIMLA: While dealing with the matter of remedial action against failure of the authorities in Himachal Pradesh in preventing pollution of rivers Balad, Sirsa and Satluj in Baddi Industrial area in Solan district, the National Green Tribunal has dismissed the review application filed by Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and…

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API residues causing pollution in Himachal Pradesh: NGT dismisses Centre's review application

The Times of India

Two-fifths of British butterflies threatened with extinction, analysis shows

The insects face an uncertain future due to climate change and nitrogen pollution

Wales Online

Oil hazards aren't the main worry of Nigeria's coastal residents: toilets are

Nigeria’s coastal areas are known to present environmental hazards and risks. Oil exploration and exploitation is one source of these hazards. Oil spillage, gas flaring, air and water pollution and agricultural land contamination are serious problems in the region, with implications for human and environmental health.

The Conversation

Plastics industry, facing crackdown, targets Democrats with mailers deemed deceptive

LOS ANGELES — Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flyer in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a line stating, “Higher taxes on plastic products will enrich corporate interests with no guarantee of reducing plastic waste.”

Los Angeles Times

UN Says Rich Countries Putting Children around the World at Risk

Rich countries are creating unsafe living conditions for children both at home and around the world, a UNICEF report released Tuesday said, calling on states to reduce waste and cut pollution. UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center studied 39 countries from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brazil president announces carbon market, thin on details

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has announced the creation of a carbon market in Brazil but it is voluntary and the announcement is thin on the kind of details that make for a robust trading forum

The Independent UK

Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics

Plastic particles smaller than 5mm (known as microplastics) are well-documented pollutants in ocean and freshwater habitats. The discovery of microplastics in the most remote rivers of the Himalayas and the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean has sparked widespread concern. But how much microplastic lies closer to home – buried…

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The Guardian - UK

‘A gaping wound’: how a film about birds of prey is a warning to India’s capital city

Meditative documentary All That Breathes is about two brothers’ devotion to protecting black kites against a backdrop of pollution and violence in Delhi

ABC News

Developer Michael Anthony who failed to remove construction waste from Darwin Harbour loses Supreme Court appeal

In a long-running environmental protection case, a prominent developer who failed to remove thousands of cubic metres of construction waste dumped in Darwin Harbour has lost a Supreme Court bid to avoid a $300,000 fine.

The Times of India

Maharashtra joins World Economic Forum in fight against plastic pollution

DAVOS: Maharashtra, India's largest state in terms of GDP, on Sunday joined the World Economic Forum's Global Plastic Action Partnership to advance regional efforts to fight plastic pollution. With the new partnership announced here during the WEF Annual Meeting 2022, Maharashtra has joined a growing list of global economies that…

Bangkok Post

Have we hit the limits to growth?

Fifty years ago this spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century was published. Written for the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows and colleagues at MIT, The Limits to Growth used new computer models to forecast an uncontrollable collapse in the global population and economy if…

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The Hindu

Explained | What the new Lancet report says about India’s pollution problem

Pollution resulted in more than 23 lakh premature deaths in India in 2019, highest in the world, a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has revealed.

Daily Record

Taxi drivers demand Scotland's biggest cities scrap new pollution charges

In Glasgow , motorists will face a fine of up to £480 from June 2023 if caught in a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) driving a vehicle that doesn’t meet green standards.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu to get separate solid waste management corporation like Goa

CHENNAI: To tackle solid waste, the Tamil Nadu govt plans to set up a separate solid waste management corporation like the one in Goa, the state minister for climate change and environment, Siva V Meyyanathan stated in Chennai on Saturday. He also said the state had prepared a separate action…

The Hindu

Bhupender Yadav lauds Tamil Nadu for air quality standards

He also praises T.N. Pollution Control Board for e-commute

Newcastle Herald

Muswellbrook is among the most polluted postcodes in Australia

AGL, Australia's largest climate polluter, says its proposed corporate demerger represents a critical step in its push to reduce emissions in the Hunter Valley.

Evening Standard

Greater London ULEZ could remove more than 100,000 polluting cars

Expanding the Ultra-Low Emission Zone to cover the whole of Greater London could take more than 100,000 older, more polluting cars off the road, according to Sadiq Khan.

The Guardian - UK

‘Ella’s law’ bill seeks to establish right to clean air in UK

Jenny Jones says bill, named after girl who died of asthma, treats pollution as matter of social justice

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