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…
Category: Air pollution
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…
Coronavirus-hit carmakers urge EU to pull legislative handbrake
From EURACTIV By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com The car industry has warned Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and climate chief Frans Timmermans that the coronavirus will disrupt plans to…
Poplar genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees
[cough..shades of Reagan…cough~] University of Arizona While providing benefits to the environment, some trees also emit gases to the atmosphere that worsen air pollution and alter climate. Field trials in…
Commercial Space Ride Secured for NASA’s New Air Pollution Sensor
From NASA July 22, 2019 RELEASE 19-050 NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will provide near-real-time North American air quality information that will be available to the public.…
State of the Air 2019 Report packed with climate alarmist propaganda
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The American Lung Association recently released its State of the Air Report for 2019 which continued the scientifically unsupported hype from its 2018 Report falsely…
Growth of legal pot farms drives smog worries
From Science Mag Leaf enclosure measurements for determining volatile organic compound emission capacity from Cannabis spp. Summary Air pollution researchers are going to pot. The expansion of legal pot farms…
China’s war on particulate air pollution is causing more severe ozone pollution
From Eurekalert! Public Release: 2-Jan-2019 PM 2.5 pollution is falling but ground-level ozone pollution is on the rise Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences In early…
Energy Poverty Kills More People Than Coal and Cecil B. DeMille… Combined!
Guest sequel by David Middleton This is sort of a sequel to Environmental Groups Claim Coal Killed 7,600 People in Europe in 2016… Can’t Name Any of the Victims. Air…
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