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Surrey academic wins air quality’s ‘Nobel Prize’  

Envirotec Magazine

His current focus is on the impact kitchen-based air pollution has on vulnerable communities and the impact green-blue-gray infrastructure (such as trees, lakes and stormwater ) has on mitigating air pollution and excessive heat in towns and cities.” The award is named after Dr Arie J. ”

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Advocates call for UK to change outdated laws regarding EV conversions

Charged

EV advocacy group FairCharge is calling for the UK to change what it calls outdated laws that are holding back the EV conversion industry. By law, the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is required to retain CO 2 emission ratings in vehicle logbooks for all cars built after 2001, even if they’ve been converted to electric power.

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Measurement of persistent organic pollutants: Recent progress profiled

Envirotec Magazine

By Gauthier Eppe Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that pose a significant threat to human health and the environment. References [1] Lallas, Peter L., “The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.” ” American Journal of International Law 95.3 Accessed October 27, 2023.

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New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

DeSmogBlog

The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a public relations and marketing strategy designed to distract from the urgent need to curb plastic production, a new report contends.

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Kemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group

DeSmogBlog

The GWPF’s director Benny Peiser has suggested it would be “extraordinary anyone should think there is a climate crisis”, while the group has also expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

The study comes at a time when oil giants are under pressure to curb carbon pollution and prepare for a future powered by renewables like wind and solar. In 2001, an ExxonMobil press release argued that there was “no consensus about long-term climate trends and what causes them.” Grist / Jessie Blaeser.

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Texas Crisis Drives First Public Power Bankruptcy, With More Fallout Expected

GreenTechMedia

” The financial impact is also likely to put a crimp in public utilities’ investment plans, including efforts to replace polluting fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy. “In some cases, these costs are reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.” Larger power companies are also feeling the pinch.