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Plastics industry, facing crackdown, targets Democrats with mailers deemed deceptive

LOS ANGELES — Cheryl Auger was stunned this month when one of her Pasadena neighbors and friends received a flyer in the mail featuring her state assemblyman, with a line stating, “Higher taxes on plastic products will enrich corporate interests with no guarantee of reducing plastic waste.”

Los Angeles Times

UN Says Rich Countries Putting Children around the World at Risk

Rich countries are creating unsafe living conditions for children both at home and around the world, a UNICEF report released Tuesday said, calling on states to reduce waste and cut pollution. UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center studied 39 countries from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brazil president announces carbon market, thin on details

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has announced the creation of a carbon market in Brazil but it is voluntary and the announcement is thin on the kind of details that make for a robust trading forum

The Independent UK

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Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics

Plastic particles smaller than 5mm (known as microplastics) are well-documented pollutants in ocean and freshwater habitats. The discovery of microplastics in the most remote rivers of the Himalayas and the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean has sparked widespread concern. But how much microplastic lies closer to home – buried…

The Conversation

‘A gaping wound’: how a film about birds of prey is a warning to India’s capital city

Meditative documentary All That Breathes is about two brothers’ devotion to protecting black kites against a backdrop of pollution and violence in Delhi

The Guardian - UK

Developer Michael Anthony who failed to remove construction waste from Darwin Harbour loses Supreme Court appeal

In a long-running environmental protection case, a prominent developer who failed to remove thousands of cubic metres of construction waste dumped in Darwin Harbour has lost a Supreme Court bid to avoid a $300,000 fine.

ABC News

Maharashtra joins World Economic Forum in fight against plastic pollution

DAVOS: Maharashtra, India's largest state in terms of GDP, on Sunday joined the World Economic Forum's Global Plastic Action Partnership to advance regional efforts to fight plastic pollution. With the new partnership announced here during the WEF Annual Meeting 2022, Maharashtra has joined a growing list of global economies that…

The Times of India

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Have we hit the limits to growth?

Fifty years ago this spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century was published. Written for the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows and colleagues at MIT, The Limits to Growth used new computer models to forecast an uncontrollable collapse in the global population and economy if…

Bangkok Post

Explained | What the new Lancet report says about India’s pollution problem

Pollution resulted in more than 23 lakh premature deaths in India in 2019, highest in the world, a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has revealed.

The Hindu

Taxi drivers demand Scotland's biggest cities scrap new pollution charges

In Glasgow , motorists will face a fine of up to £480 from June 2023 if caught in a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) driving a vehicle that doesn’t meet green standards.

Daily Record

Tamil Nadu to get separate solid waste management corporation like Goa

CHENNAI: To tackle solid waste, the Tamil Nadu govt plans to set up a separate solid waste management corporation like the one in Goa, the state minister for climate change and environment, Siva V Meyyanathan stated in Chennai on Saturday. He also said the state had prepared a separate action…

The Times of India

Bhupender Yadav lauds Tamil Nadu for air quality standards

He also praises T.N. Pollution Control Board for e-commute

The Hindu

Muswellbrook is among the most polluted postcodes in Australia

AGL, Australia's largest climate polluter, says its proposed corporate demerger represents a critical step in its push to reduce emissions in the Hunter Valley.

Newcastle Herald

Greater London ULEZ could remove more than 100,000 polluting cars

Expanding the Ultra-Low Emission Zone to cover the whole of Greater London could take more than 100,000 older, more polluting cars off the road, according to Sadiq Khan.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Ella’s law’ bill seeks to establish right to clean air in UK

Jenny Jones says bill, named after girl who died of asthma, treats pollution as matter of social justice

Reason

Less Pollution, More Atlantic Hurricanes

An interesting and surprising research result.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s greenhouse pollution from coal higher per person than any other developed country, data shows

Despite the growth of renewable energy, Australia’s per capita coal emissions of 4.04 tonnes of CO2 a year is nearly four times the global average

The Guardian - AU

Pollution, buses and broadband: local issues Guardian readers care about this federal election

Guardian Australia readers got in touch with a range of concerns and we put their questions to local candidates

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Biological pollution high in Devikulangara, finds study

Presence of E.coli and total coliform in groundwater samples

Inverse

NASA and Boeing's Starliner plan to break a major space travel obstacle

In today's edition of Inverse Daily read about the Mars InSight lander, a Boeing Starliner launch, and a worrying pollution study.

The Conversation

Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business

The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, and the lands around them provided many…

Zenger

Climate Irony: Cleaner Air Linked To Increase In Atlantic Hurricanes

However, an NOAA study found an uptick in air pollution elsewhere in the world produced a decline in tropical cyclones.

Evening Standard

In the Air at the Wellcome Collection review: pollution and politics permeate

The stuff we breathe is the subject of this fascinating new show

Chicago Sun-Times

Pollution ‘sacrifice zones’ must end, groups say in pushing new law

A coalition of environmental and social justice organizations say they will write a proposed law to fight the addition of polluting businesses in already stressed communities.

Inverse

Pollution is responsible for one in six deaths each year — and it’s getting worse

A landmark report reveals that one in six deaths are due to pollution, particularly in lower and middle-income countries.

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