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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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We need stricter MOT tests to eliminate air pollution, says campaign group

Envirotec Magazine

Update the law to save lives. The policies and frameworks are there, and all the Government needs to do is update the law. ‘I believe air pollution is one of the greatest public health crises of our time and that good policy can help to reverse some of its distressing implications. . Government.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do.

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World needs ambitious target of 0% new plastic waste by 2040

Envirotec Magazine

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

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Experts in Germany express support for Geothermal Acceleration Act

ThinkGeoEnergy

Experts from utility companies and civic organizations expressed their support for the draft law to accelerate the approval procedures for geothermal plants, heat pumps, and heat storage facilities , and to amend other legal framework conditions for the climate-neutral expansion of heat supply.

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Five smart policies can turbocharge clean US manufacturing

Canary Media

is beginning to see new growth in domestic manufacturing, driven by investments in breakthrough industrial technologies in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These two ambitious pieces of legislation — aiming to help companies cut their pollution,… After decades of stagnation, the U.S.

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Just 36 Companies Drove Half the World’s Climate-Altering Emissions in 2023: New Report

DeSmogBlog

percent of the worlds carbon dioxide pollution alone in 2023, the report found. The years top carbon polluters were a mix of investor-owned and state-owned or national companies but they have one thing in common. And their lobbying efforts took aim at regulating climate-altering pollution or sought to impede the energy transition.