Showing posts with label air pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air pollution. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

More Evidence of Air Pollution's Impact on Health, This Time Our Brains

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New research links air pollution from fossil fuels like coal and oil - particularly from diesel engines - to dementia, Alzheimer's dise...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A New Surprise Benefit of Cutting Lead Pollution

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Studies have shown a strong connection between the phase-out of lead in gasoline starting in the mid-1970s and a plunge in violent crime in ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Journalists Are Only Against Some Cancer

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Countless "objective" journalists advocate for mammograms to stop breast cancer. Katie Couric advocates for colonoscopies to s...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

How Coal Power is Making Us Sick

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Learn more in this new report from the Health and Environment Alliance .
Friday, November 30, 2012

Possible Autism Link Yet Another Reason to Limit Air Pollution

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Six in ten Americans support stronger limits on soot pollution from industrial facilities , according to a new poll conducted by Greenberg ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

We Love Our Children Enough to Put Them on the Shittiest Buses Possible

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Two blocks up the hill - that's how far a New Bedford school bus was, yet a cloud of diesel exhaust still hung on my street in its wake,...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

New Poll: Only 1 in 7 Americans Support Inhofe Polluter Bill; Majorities Want EPA Mercury & Carbon Action

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UPDATE 11:58am : Warner & Webb voted with Sen. Inhofe. Disgraceful. Fortunately, 53 other senators stood up for public health & kill...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Warner & Webb Undecided on Whether to Let Polluters Keep Killing People

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Today, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) to block the Environmental Protection Agency from setting science-...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

New Ad Asks Virginians to Speak Up for Industrial Carbon Pollution Limits

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On the same day a new poll shows supermajorities of small business owners support clean energy & limits on industrial carbon pollution...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Ask the Green Miles: Which Fish are Most Sustainable & Have Least Mercury?

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First, the short answer: Check out the FDA's advisory on mercury in fish & shellfish , then cross-reference the FDA's chart of t...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Virginian-Pilot Calls Out "Norfolk's Coal Embarrassment"

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Norfolk City Council has refused to take a firm stand against a proposed new coal-fired power plant that would cause dozens of premature de...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Groups Push Virginia Politicians to Support Clean Air

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The Green Miles had asthma as a kid and until recently had always thought of it strictly as a personal health problem ... but I grew up in B...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

This is How You Fight Back Against GOP Attacks on Clean Air

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You don't need to have a Ph.D. to talk about why we need clean air and climate action. You don't need to have a mastery of facts ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Regulating Dirty Coal Will Kill Human-Killing Jobs

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There's been a wave of closures recently at the oldest, dirtiest, most-polluting coal-fired power plants, including GenOn's Potomac ...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Will Rep. Wolf Side With Tea Party or With Children's Lungs?

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Just got this email from a local conservationist: Right now there is a bill in the House of Representatives to stop that rule from moving f...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Susan Collins Only In Favor of Saving Lives If Anderson Cooper's Black T-Shirt is Watching

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The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed limits on pollution from industrial boilers and process heaters would annually prevent  6...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dirty Distinction: Virginia 14th on Power Plant Pollution List

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Virginia comes in 14th-worst on a new ranking of states with the most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants, according ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Polluting Your Brain: Science Deniers Say Mercury's Just Dandy

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Famed science deniers Willie Soon and Paul Driessen , both of whom have worked for groups that accept cash from Exxon Mobil to pretend glob...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Why Does Arlington Fight New Highways?

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Because Arlington (and DC, Fairfax, etc.) continues to get failing grades for air quality that can be linked directly to excessive pollutio...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Front Group, Fake Members, Polluter Money Target Virginia's Air

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Who's attacking the Clean Air Act in Virginia? Why are they hiding behind a front group that was just created two weeks ago? A little de...