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UK laundry releases microfibres weighing the equivalent of 1,500 buses each year

Around 35% of the microplastics contaminating the world’s oceans come from washing our clothes. When washed, synthetic clothing sheds tiny plastic fragments (typically shorter than 5mm). Known as microfibres, these fragments are a common type of microplastic, and when released pose a serious threat to marine environments.

The Conversation

Ohio derailment aftermath: How worried should people be?

Plumes of smoke, questions about dead animals, worries about the drinking water

The Independent UK

City was ‘negligent,’ showed ‘incompetence’ protecting Little Village from pollution, report finds

A once-secret inspector general’s report says City Hall dropped the ball on Crawford plant implosion in 2020.

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New Jersey groups fight power plants and wait for environmental justice law

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect

The Independent UK

Artemis I: NASA's Historic Moon Launch Caused More Noise Pollution Than Expected

The audacious mission rumbled the surrounding area more than we knew. That could have had an effect on the launch facility and nearby wildlife.

Inverse

Wood burning air pollution in UK has doubled in a decade

Experts say wood burners have become ‘middle-class status symbols’ and government should regulate sale in urban areas

The Guardian - UK

Map reveals Dublin's best and worst air quality spots with quays and Temple Bar topping list

A street-by-street map has shown that Temple Bar, Dublin's quays and Smithfield have poor air quality

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Busy Ayr road reopens as emergency Scottish Water works are complete

A burst sewer pipe saw the busy town road shut for repairs.

Daily Record

What is Ulez and how has if affected air pollution?

The Mayor has called Ulez "the most effective way to cut toxic air"

Evening Standard

City must do a better job holding polluters accountable for air quality violations

Making sure Chicagoans in every corner of the city can breathe clean air shouldn’t be difficult.

Chicago Sun-Times

What we know about the Ohio train derailment

The 150-car Norfolk Southern freight train was pulling at least five tanker cars containing vinyl chloride, a colorless but hazardous gas.

Axios

Rishi Sunak denies reports ministers are reconsidering super fines for polluting water firms

The Prime Minister has hit back at reports the Government is reconsidering super fines for water companies that dump sewage in Britain’s rivers.

Evening Standard

Change your car or, better yet, ditch it — for the sake of our children

It’s great to see new evidence that the Ulez has been incredibly effective at taking the most polluting vehicles off the road — it’s making a big difference to the air quality in urban areas. Our children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, especially in boroughs such as Islington…

Evening Standard

UK city's air so polluted it's like smoking 189 cigarettes a year - see your area

One city in the UK has such bad air pollution that it is equivalent to residents in Northampton smoking 189 cigarettes a year according to one study

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

City of London proposing to make skyscrapers dim their lights at night

Plans for Square Mile would create ‘brightness zones’ governed by curfews amid the darkened buildings

The Guardian - US

Gas stove pollution: will air purifiers or even plants make your home safer?

Air quality experts weigh in on different methods to keep air pollution out of the home and refute commonly held beliefs

ABC News

Offsetting Beetaloo Basin emissions would require unproven CCS technology, off-limits international credits, CSIRO finds

The researchers were tasked with determining how — and if — the Northern Territory government's promise to offset all greenhouse gas emissions from fracking the Beetaloo Basin could be achieved.

Chicago Sun-Times

City Hall giving passes on air pollution, CPD shooting probed and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Climate groups fear a key government policy to drive down emissions will instead push them up

Climate advocates are insisting changes be made to one of the federal government's key emissions-reduction tools, warning it currently risks perversely allowing emissions to increase.

Manchester Evening News

Clean Air Zone charges 'highly unlikely' except in two Greater Manchester boroughs, Andy Burnham says

The government has asked Greater Manchester to analyse the impact of introducing charges on some vehicles in the city centre

Daily Mirror

Wood-burning stove warning: Health alert for anybody that has a fireplace in their home

A major health warning has been given to Brits using wood burning stoves rather than switching on central heating in a bid to save money in the cost of living crisis

Evening Standard

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah: Mother calls for wood-burner ban after child’s death

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s mother has called for a ban on wood-burning stoves in London after her child became first person in Britain whose death was linked to air pollution.

Edinburgh Live

Urgent health warning issued to anyone with a wood burning stove in their home

An urgent health warning has been issued to anyone who owns a wood burning stove, as they produce 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck.

Evening Standard

Ulez expansion is the right thing to do — for the sake of our children

It’s great to see new evidence that the ULEZ has been incredibly effective at taking the most polluting vehicles off the road - it’s making a big difference to the air quality in urban areas. Our children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, especially in boroughs such as Islington…

Chicago Sun-Times

Polluters like Southeast Side plant often get a pass on air-quality violations in Chicago, Sun-Times finds

Fewer than half of all citations written by Chicago city health inspectors in recent years for air pollution end up sticking, records show. That’s left neighbors of polluters unhappy.

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