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Category: Air pollution
Study: Earth’s growing heat imbalance – it’s the clouds and natural climate variability
Understanding this hemispheric “balancing act” helps society focus on the true forces behind global warming—changes in cloud behavior linked to surface warming and natural climate variability
CLAIM: Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic
Researchers claim “Oil-field emissions reshaping regional atmospheric processes.”
Steeper Road for Zero-Emissions Vehicles
The road to adoption of Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) is growing steeper. For over two decades, states used incentives and mandates to try to force a transition from gasoline vehicles…
Institute for Policy Integrity: Power Plant Pollution is Clearly Significant
I cannot let the claim that “The U.S. power sector’s annual emissions will cause thousands of U.S.. mortalities” go without a response. If their claims have merit, then the change…
Cleaner Air, Sunshine & Temperatures
Which all begs the question – what impact has cleaner air had on the rise in UK temperatures since the 1960s?
The Climate Change−Air Quality−Public Health Fallacy
[Our question] How can updating the Reference Manual to address junk science best be accomplished given such a massive input from entrenched academics in the past?
EPA Proposes Yet Another Impossible Standard
Unsafe at any level! If the current administration’s Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] has its way, if any ambient-air dust is found inside an apartment building then that would…
U.S. Urban Air Pollution Trends: Fossil Fuel Ecology
But sound science, not outlier studies, is needed to inform public policy in light of achievable technological change.
Peaker Power Plants and Environmental Injustice
…the presumption of egregious harm is based on selective choice of metrics, poor understanding of air quality health impacts, and ignorance of air quality trends
E.P.A. Tells States: Clean Up Your Smokestacks
“The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east.”
Outsourcing Emissions
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The countries of the West are slowly destroying their manufacturing, mining, and fossil fuel producing industries by way of well-meaning but ultimately destructive “environmental” regulations.…
With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, vegetation emerges as major source
California’s restrictions on vehicle emissions have been so effective that in at least one urban area, Los Angeles, the most concerning source of dangerous aerosol pollution may well be trees…
First lockdown’s effect on air pollution was overstated, our study reveals
The pandemic caused governments around the world to introduce lockdowns in early 2020, temporarily closing workplaces and emptying roads and public spaces. As economic activity slowed, so did emissions of…
Study: China’s Clean Air Policies are Triggering Additional Global Warming
According to a study whose authors include Ken Caldeira, China’s efforts to eliminate its infamous air pollution could cause an additional 0.1C NH warming, because less sunlight will be reflected…
Air pollution could be making honey bees sick – new study
Whether it’s exhaust fumes from cars or smoke from power plants, air pollution is an often invisible threat that is a leading cause of death worldwide.
A Big Fireworks Pollution Question Will Be Answered Today.
I have always wondered: what are the relative contributions of the professional/community displays versus personal fireworks in terms of contributions to air pollution and the big spikes in particles (like…
COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality
American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON–Levels of two major air pollutants have been drastically reduced since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant – ground-level ozone –…
How NASA is Helping the World Breathe More Easily
From NASA April 14, 2020 How NASA is Helping the World Breathe More Easily Look around. Can you see the air? No? Luckily, many of NASA’s Earth-observing satellites can see…
NASA Satellite Data Show 30 Percent Drop In Air Pollution Over Northeast U.S.
From NASA Over the past several weeks, NASA satellite measurements have revealed significant reductions in air pollution over the major metropolitan areas of the Northeast United States. Similar reductions have…