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EPA ANNOUNCES EASING OF CAR AND TRUCK EMISSIONS STANDARDS
The EPA, in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will work to come up with new standards... READ MORE›
CHINA 'ENVIRONMENT CENSUS' REVEALS 50% RISE IN POLLUTION SOURCES
China 'environment census' reveals 50 percent rise in pollution sources... READ MORE›
EVERYDAY ITEMS LIKE COLOGNES, CLEANING PRODUCTS ARE BIG SOURCE OF AIR POLLUTION, STUDY FINDS
Follow-up research in Los Angeles, notorious for its air-quality problems, found that the prevalence of VOCs in the air from chemical products matched the authors' estimates... READ MORE›
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EPA WIPES ITS CLIMATE CHANGE SITE DAY BEFORE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Previously, the website housed data on greenhouse gas emissions from large polluters and reports on the effects of climate change and its impact on human health... READ MORE›
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE, BECOMES PRIORITY UNDER TRUMP ORDER
Trump's order attempts to roll back Obama-era policies on power plant emissions limits, coal mining on federal lands, and regulations on fracking and methane... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO TAP FAST FOOD EXECUTIVE ANDY PUZDER FOR LABOR SECRETARY
Preparing to make public appearances Thursday in Ohio and Iowa, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate restaurant chain executive Andy Puzder to be labor secretary... READ MORE›
SCOTT PRUITT VOWS TO SLASH CLIMATE AND WATER POLLUTION REGULATIONS AT CPAC
Pruitt demurred when asked if the EPA should be abolished, citing the very important work it does in water and air pollution that crosses state lines... READ MORE›
POLLUTION RESPONSIBLE FOR A QUARTER OF DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN, SAYS WHO
It found that 300 million of these children live in areas with extreme air pollution, where toxic fumes are more than six times above the health guidelines... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP 'TAKING STEPS TO ABOLISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'
President Trump said during the campaign that he would like to abolish the EPA or 'leave a little bit'... READ MORE›
TRUMP PICKS CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTIC SCOTT PRUITT TO LEAD EPA
Yet as attorney general, Mr Pruitt not only denied the existence of climate change, but took steps to accelerate its devastating effects on Americans... READ MORE›
A CIVIL RIGHTS 'EMERGENCY': JUSTICE, CLEAN AIR AND WATER IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The roots of the environmental justice movement are diffuse, but a string of events in Houston, Texas, proved foundational... READ MORE›
NINE-YEAR-OLD SUES INDIAN GOVERNMENT OVER CLIMATE CHANGE INACTION
It calls on the tribunal to direct the government to take effective, science-based action to reduce and minimise the adverse impacts of climate change ... READ MORE›
INSIDE THE MASS EXODUS AT THE EPA
More than 700 workers have left the rapidly shrinking Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office -- including more than 200 scientists, according to a report... READ MORE›
EUROPE ESCALATES ACTION AGAINST UK FOR BREACHING AIR POLLUTION LIMITS
UK fails to apply environmental law on air quality, water standards, and the conservation of several species, EU review reveals... READ MORE›
'SEE YOU IN COURT': ACTIVISTS READY FOR TRUMP TO RELAX SMOG AND DRILLING RULES
With the Trump administration poised to roll back rules on smog and drilling off Alaska and the east coast, environmental campaigners are ready for legal action... READ MORE›
CRUISE SHIPS SHOWED CONTEMPT FOR CUSTOMERS BY BREAKING CLEAN AIR PLEDGE, REPORT SAYS
Nabu is calling on all cruise ships worldwide to ban their use of heavy fuel and to install particulate filters on all ships... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POLLUTION IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST KILLER AND A THREAT TO SURVIVAL OF MANKIND, STUDY FINDS
Air pollution deaths in Southeast Asia are on track to double by 2050, he added... READ MORE›
SERIOUS FARM POLLUTION BREACHES RISE IN UK - AND MANY GO UNPROSECUTED
Environment Agency figures show severe incidents are weekly occurrence as farms struggle with cost of pollution prevention despite subsidies... READ MORE›
UK CITIZENS ARE TAKING AIR POLLUTION MONITORING INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
Residents in Lancing and Shoreham, West Sussex, have also teamed up to explore air pollution levels... READ MORE›
'CANCER ALLEY' RESIDENTS SAY INDUSTRY IS HURTING TOWN
In Louisiana's industrial heart, the shadow of Trump's deregulation push looms as St James residents fight chemical plants, pipelines and laissez-faire policies... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP CAN STRENGTHEN AMERICA BY DUMPING PARIS AGREEMENT
The Paris Agreement was a false promise from the start, committing the United States to an unattainable 26-28 percent reduction by 2025... READ MORE›
LONDON TAKES 5 DAYS TO BREACH 2017 AIR POLLUTION LIMIT
It's estimated that nearly 10,000 Londoners die prematurely every year as a result of air pollution... READ MORE›
CROWDS GATHER WORLDWIDE TO MARCH FOR SCIENCE ON EARTH DAY
March for Science events in New York, London, Paris, Berlin see crowds gather worldwide on Earth Day... READ MORE›
THE HIDDEN RISKS OF TRUMP'S EPA CUTS
The White House's proposed budget would shrink the program from 7.5 million to 445,000, to be spent shutting down the work, according to the Environmental Protection Network's report... READ MORE›
FUELING DISSENT: HOW THE OIL INDUSTRY SET OUT TO UNDERCUT CLEAN AIR
He gets a second dose at the end of the day before heading home from St John Bosco Elementary School, in San Antonio, Texas... READ MORE›
DETROIT INCINERATOR IS HOTSPOT FOR HEALTH PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS CLAIM
And since the beginning of that year, the incinerator has been fined for persistently violating an earlier agreement with the state for alleged state violations... READ MORE›
ELECTRIC VEHICLES COULD GO FIRST AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS UNDER UK CLEAN AIR ZONE PLANS
Local authorities should be supported - including financially - to introduce clean air zones across the country... READ MORE›
POOREST LONDON CHILDREN FACE HEALTH RISKS FROM TOXIC AIR, POVERTY AND OBESITY
The study found that schools in the capital worst affected by the UK's air pollution crisis were also disproportionately poor, with high levels of obesity... READ MORE›
US PEOPLE OF COLOR STILL MORE LIKELY TO BE EXPOSED TO POLLUTION THAN WHITE PEOPLE
We have policies in place to reduce pollution in general but we don't have policies in place on environmental justice, said Marshall... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO NOMINATE PRUITT TO LEAD U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
The transition team statement called Pruitt "a national leader against the EPA's job-killing war on coal" who will help implement Trump's energy plan... READ MORE›
TRUMP SAYS U.S., ONE OF THE WORST CARBON POLLUTERS, IS THE 'CLEANEST' COUNTRY ON EARTH
2 in per person carbon dioxide pollution, behind Luxembourg, among 35 developed nations plus China, India and Brazil, Energy Department data show... READ MORE›
FOUR IN 10 UK COUNCILS EXCEED AIR POLLUTION LIMITS, FIGURES SHOW
He said Forty percent of local authorities in the UK breached legal air pollution limits last year... READ MORE›
SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK OBAMA'S SWEEPING CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN
America's use of coal for electricity fell to an all-time low last year, and about 5 percent of coal-fired power plants were shut down... READ MORE›