Fears for noise and light pollution with storage site proposal in Midgham

An application for planning permission for the retention of four shipping containers plus another 20 to be used for self storage is to be discussed by West Berkshire Council planners next week. There have been 16 objections to the proposals at The...

Local residents have fought against a third runway at Heathrow, arguing their lives are already blighted by noise and pollution from Europe's busiest air hub in passenger numbers

New Mexico environment leaders push back at EPA proposed climate change rollback State official says rulemaking to reduce emissions will continue ‘regardless of what happens in Washington.’

New Mexico climate groups struck a defiant tone in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to dismantle federal authority to reduce one of the drivers of climate change: greenhouse gases. On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee...

Can the ICJ ruling force rich nations to pay for historical emissions?

On July 23, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion reaffirming states’ legal obligations to mitigate climate change. The court emphasised that countries are required to reduce their greenhouse gases (GHG)...

The Hidden Threat in Every Breath: How Air Pollution Silently Steals Our Memories

Every day, we take approximately 20,000 breaths. Most of us think about air quality in terms of our lungs and heart—but what if the greatest danger lurks somewhere entirely unexpected? What if the microscopic particles we inhale are quietly...

Call for action on Ladys Island Lake pollution

The deteriorating situation with pollution of Our Ladys Island Lake in South Wexford needs to be tackled as a matter of priority That’s the view of the Save Lady’s Island Lake campaign who are calling on the powers that be to act before...

Essential commercial measures to put an end to plastic pollution

This assessment of the United Nations Trade and Development body, Trectacome an update Posted Thursday before the last series of talks to develop a legally binding international instrument against plastic pollution. “Although plastics are directly...

EPA Unveils Plan to Scrap Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

The Trump administration is formally proposing to scrap the U.S. government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases as an air pollutant, a move that sets the stage to severely weaken Washington’s ability to fight climate change. The Environmental...

Garbage truck noise pollution

Editor, Through the columns of your esteemed daily, I would like to once again draw attention – though by now it feels utterly pointless – to an issue that has been deliberately ignored by the authorities for the fifth or sixth time. For years,...

Eight battery-electric Liebherr wheel loaders join ARC fleet to drive down emissions

Servicing several municipalities in the greater Copenhagen area, the Danish waste management company Amager Ressourcecenter (ARC), has set itself the goal of consistently reducing its CO2 emissions. ARC has taken the next step towards...

US EPA to repeal core of greenhouse gas rules

The US Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations...

Knoxville adds more electric vehicles to department fleets in efforts to reduce carbon emissions

The city of Knoxville said it wants to have electric vehicles in every city department eventually. The city of Knoxville is adding more electric vehicles to department fleets as part of an initiative to have at least one electric vehicle in every...

The significance of EPA plan to revoke landmark greenhouse gas finding

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to revoke a key scientific finding it published 16 years ago that six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. David Schechter breaks down why it...

EPA proposes elimination of greenhouse gas emission rules

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to get rid of regulations that limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions trucks and cars can produce in the US. INDIANAPOLIS — The Crossroads of America was front and center Tuesday on the...

Iowa settles pollution cases against Agri Star plant and Nishnabotna River fertilizer spill

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird on Wednesday unveiled two settlements over large-scale water pollution that killed hundreds of thousands of fish and repeatedly breached discharge limits. Cami Koons reports for Iowa Capital Dispatch. In short: In...

With Concern for Patients, American Thoracic Society Sounds Alarm at EPA Proposal to Change Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding

Newswise — (WASHINGTON, DC) Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its intention to repeal the Endangerment Finding, a long-standing regulation that protects clean air. The American Thoracic Society President Raed Dweik, MD, ATSF,...

Trump's EPA targets key health ruling underpinning all US greenhouse gas rules

Washington: The Trump administration said on Tuesday it will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal foundation for all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. If finalized, the repeal...

EPA proposes revoking scientific finding greenhouse gases endanger public health

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. Calling it the biggest...

Are greenhouse gases really dangerous? The EPA is reconsidering

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. The proposed Environmental Protection...

EPA moves to rescind finding that greenhouse gas emissions pose risk to the public

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with repeal of a 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases pose a danger to the public. The 2009 standard, called the endangerment finding, has been a declaration that six key...