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Category: Air pollution
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…
Study suggests air pollution is a factor in Arctic ice melt
From the “CO2 isn’t the master climate control knob after all” department and the AGU. Air pollution reduces Arctic cloud lifetime, study suggests WASHINGTON — Fossil fuel emissions from Asia…
Good news: U.S. air pollution deaths nearly halved between 1990 and 2010
From the University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health. This should limit the urgency that the EPA had over implementing new air pollution laws where they make…
Claim: Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases, Is the Main Cause of Global Warming
NOTE: I don’t necessarily agree with this [at all], but I thought it worth exposing – Anthony In a recent article in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International,…
Climate Standoff: President Trump Looking to Repeal Californian Right to Regulate Vehicle Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Bloomberg reports the Trump administration has mounted a direct attack on California’s right to regulate air pollution, and their apparent efforts to use their market…
Good news: real air pollution trends in US continue downward, but slower than hoped
From the “EPA models are always accurate” department comes this bit of good news. The air we breathe today in the United States is much cleaner than it was in…
Study: city air pollution makes people behave less ethically
From the ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE and the “air with either alter your personality, or make you unethical, or both” department comes this inane piece of research that just doesn’t pass…
Finding: Arctic clouds highly sensitive to air pollution
From the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and the “other factors besides CO2” department. In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something most…
Does Air Pollution Really Shorten Life Spans?
Guest essay by Dr. Indur M. Goklany Periodically we are flooded with reports of air pollution episodes in various developing countries, and claims of their staggering death toll, and consequent reductions…
Dirty bird carcasses tell the story of how air pollution has improved in the last 100 years
What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment Museum collections track soot in the atmosphere throughout the 20th century From the FIELD MUSEUM Horned Larks are cute…
EXCLUSIVE: Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s Most Successful Clean Air Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:06 PM 08/07/2017 One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longest and most successful air pollution standards is based on a taxpayer-funded study…
New hi-tech gadget promises power from polluted air
From the “Chinese are already working on a copy” department: Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process that…
California Auto Emissions Showdown
Guest essay by Eric Worrall California has geared up to defy President Trump’s efforts to dismantle ridiculously strict auto-emission standards. But there may be a way President Donald Trump can…
Asian pollution, heat waves worsen US smog, Princeton-NOAA study shows
From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the “excessive EPA regulations caused massive exports of US industry to Asia and all I got was this lousy smog” department. PRINCETON, N.J. — An influx of…
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