Rooftop Farm Aims To Help Revitalize Downtown St. Louis And Bridge Community...
Who says a small farm can’t have a big impact? A new, 10,000-square-foot rooftop farm unveiled last month in St. Louis is not only growing a lot of fresh, healthy food to help nourish nearby...
View ArticleJuly 4 fireworks cause major spike in air pollution, study shows
The study, which monitored air quality at more than 300 locations across the country from 1999 to 2013 reveals that levels of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere are 42 percent higher than normal...
View ArticleBeijing says its air pollution improved during the first half of 2015
Beijing's municipal government says air pollution in the capital improved during the first six months of 2015. Reported by FOXNews.com 8 hours ago.
View ArticleBeijing Says Its Air Pollution Better in First Half of 2015
Beijing says its air pollution improved during the first half of 2015 Reported by ABCNews.com 7 hours ago.
View ArticleBeijing says its air pollution better in first half of 2015
Chinese authorities have closed some polluting factories in the region, stepped up law enforcement of polluting industries and limited carbon emissions. Reported by Seattle Times 7 hours ago.
View ArticleThe Prime Minister must get his act together on airport expansion
Once again we stand to have a major decision of national consequence determined more by the political management of the Tory party than the national interest, says Tessa Jowell. Heathrow, viewed from...
View ArticleSteady as She Goes: Lessons for the Clean Power Plan From the Supreme Court's...
Everyone with a stake in President Obama's Clean Power Plan waited anxiously last month for the Supreme Court's decisions in the mercury and healthcare cases, Michigan v. EPA and King v. Burwell. What...
View ArticleCanadian wildfire smoke prompts statewide air advisory in Minnesota
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is expanding its air pollution warning due to smoke from wildfires in Canada. Reported by TwinCities.com 22 hours ago.
View ArticleCanadian wildfire smoke prompts health warning in Colorado
Christopher Dann of the state's air pollution control division says small particles of debris from the fires that is in the air poses the biggest threat to people with lung disease, older adults and...
View ArticleEPA Chief Says She's Not Worried About Supreme Court Mercury Ruling
WASHINGTON -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday that she's not worried about last week's Supreme Court ruling against the agency's rules limiting mercury and air...
View ArticleLight-Based Technologies at Work: ‘Seeing’ Through Walls, Monitoring Cancer...
Two recent major European conferences co-located in Munich covered applications of light-based technologies ranging from monitoring air pollution and preserving valuable artworks and cultural sites to...
View ArticleUnited States: EPA Takes Initial Steps Toward Regulating Greenhouse Gas...
On June 10, 2015, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), Gina McCarthy, proposed to find that greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from certain aircraft engines contribute to air...
View ArticleDirty Energy vs. Clean Power: The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake
*Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com* Let’s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s “Yellow Taxi” to fit this moment in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. There, Big Energy seems determined to...
View ArticleJeffCo Board of Health rejects request for Walter Coke permit hearing
The Jefferson County Board of Health on Wednesday voted to dismiss a request for a hearing on the issuance of an air pollution permit for the Walter Coke production facility in Birmingham. The Greater...
View Article5 Health Tech Innovations That Will Improve the Lives of Millions
Recently, I had the chance to attend the F50 Season 5 Summit in San Francisco, a private co-investment network that connects startups with a global community of professional and strategic investors....
View ArticleThe Greens should fear Zac Goldsmith
In an election where the party must aim to do better than the good showings of 2008 and 2012, Zac Goldsmith poses a real threat, warns Jon Bartley. Fear him. Photo: Getty Images I’m going to be...
View ArticleUS Power Pollution Drops 12%: Report
America's power plant operators are reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and toxic air pollution, but the progress is uneven. Reported by IBTimes 3 days ago.
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This tiny wearable tracker will warn you when your air quality is getting...
A Fitbit can tell you if you're getting enough steps during the day. But it can't warn you when the smog outside is so heavy that those steps might do more harm than good. The Tzoa tracker, a small...
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This tiny wearable tracker will warn you when air pollution threatens your...
A Fitbit can tell you if you're getting enough steps during the day. But it can't warn you when the smog outside is so heavy that those steps might do more harm than good. The Tzoa tracker, a small...
View ArticleChina's Pollution Quagmire And Its Alberta Tar Sands Connection
China's efforts to reduce air pollution could be negated by its unregulated and unmonitored burning of petcoke, a fuel dirtier than coal, an expert on Chinese climate and energy policy said Tuesday in...
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