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#EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on #datacenter plans
By MATTHEW DALY
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, September 3, 2026WASHINGTON (AP) — "A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.
"The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for data centers and other #IndustrialFacilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
"Critics say the move could thwart local residents from learning about proposed data centers or making their voices heard before projects are approved and construction begins. The move comes during a widespread backlash as #TechGiants build hundreds of massive #ServerWarehouses to fuel #ArtificialIntelligence and #CloudComputing.
" 'By eliminating the long-standing federal requirement for public notice, this proposal continues efforts by the Trump administration to turn its back on the fundamental EPA principle of transparency,' said Mike Koerber, a former deputy director of EPA’s air quality office.
"If made final, the plan could create 'an unlevel playing field where citizens in one state are kept completely in the dark about new data centers and heavy industrial emissions in their backyards, while neighboring states maintain oversight,' he said.
"Under the EPA plan, states with weak or no requirements for #PublicComment could speed permits for data centers, #PowerPlants and other #PollutionSources without consulting the public or even informing communities where the facilities are located, Koerber and other critics said."
#USPol #EPAFail #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyWaste #CorporateGreed #CorporateColonialism #DatacenterMoratoriums #Datacentres #Hyperscale #PhysicalMedia #NoPublicComment #SneakyTechGiants #AI
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#EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on #datacenter plans
By MATTHEW DALY
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, September 3, 2026WASHINGTON (AP) — "A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.
"The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for data centers and other #IndustrialFacilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
"Critics say the move could thwart local residents from learning about proposed data centers or making their voices heard before projects are approved and construction begins. The move comes during a widespread backlash as #TechGiants build hundreds of massive #ServerWarehouses to fuel #ArtificialIntelligence and #CloudComputing.
" 'By eliminating the long-standing federal requirement for public notice, this proposal continues efforts by the Trump administration to turn its back on the fundamental EPA principle of transparency,' said Mike Koerber, a former deputy director of EPA’s air quality office.
"If made final, the plan could create 'an unlevel playing field where citizens in one state are kept completely in the dark about new data centers and heavy industrial emissions in their backyards, while neighboring states maintain oversight,' he said.
"Under the EPA plan, states with weak or no requirements for #PublicComment could speed permits for data centers, #PowerPlants and other #PollutionSources without consulting the public or even informing communities where the facilities are located, Koerber and other critics said."
#USPol #EPAFail #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyWaste #CorporateGreed #CorporateColonialism #DatacenterMoratoriums #Datacentres #Hyperscale #PhysicalMedia #NoPublicComment #SneakyTechGiants #AI
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#EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on #datacenter plans
By MATTHEW DALY
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, September 3, 2026WASHINGTON (AP) — "A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.
"The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for data centers and other #IndustrialFacilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
"Critics say the move could thwart local residents from learning about proposed data centers or making their voices heard before projects are approved and construction begins. The move comes during a widespread backlash as #TechGiants build hundreds of massive #ServerWarehouses to fuel #ArtificialIntelligence and #CloudComputing.
" 'By eliminating the long-standing federal requirement for public notice, this proposal continues efforts by the Trump administration to turn its back on the fundamental EPA principle of transparency,' said Mike Koerber, a former deputy director of EPA’s air quality office.
"If made final, the plan could create 'an unlevel playing field where citizens in one state are kept completely in the dark about new data centers and heavy industrial emissions in their backyards, while neighboring states maintain oversight,' he said.
"Under the EPA plan, states with weak or no requirements for #PublicComment could speed permits for data centers, #PowerPlants and other #PollutionSources without consulting the public or even informing communities where the facilities are located, Koerber and other critics said."
#USPol #EPAFail #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyWaste #CorporateGreed #CorporateColonialism #DatacenterMoratoriums #Datacentres #Hyperscale #PhysicalMedia #NoPublicComment #SneakyTechGiants #AI
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#EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on #datacenter plans
By MATTHEW DALY
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, September 3, 2026WASHINGTON (AP) — "A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.
"The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for data centers and other #IndustrialFacilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
"Critics say the move could thwart local residents from learning about proposed data centers or making their voices heard before projects are approved and construction begins. The move comes during a widespread backlash as #TechGiants build hundreds of massive #ServerWarehouses to fuel #ArtificialIntelligence and #CloudComputing.
" 'By eliminating the long-standing federal requirement for public notice, this proposal continues efforts by the Trump administration to turn its back on the fundamental EPA principle of transparency,' said Mike Koerber, a former deputy director of EPA’s air quality office.
"If made final, the plan could create 'an unlevel playing field where citizens in one state are kept completely in the dark about new data centers and heavy industrial emissions in their backyards, while neighboring states maintain oversight,' he said.
"Under the EPA plan, states with weak or no requirements for #PublicComment could speed permits for data centers, #PowerPlants and other #PollutionSources without consulting the public or even informing communities where the facilities are located, Koerber and other critics said."
#USPol #EPAFail #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyWaste #CorporateGreed #CorporateColonialism #DatacenterMoratoriums #Datacentres #Hyperscale #PhysicalMedia #NoPublicComment #SneakyTechGiants #AI
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#EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on #datacenter plans
By MATTHEW DALY
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, September 3, 2026WASHINGTON (AP) — "A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.
"The EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for data centers and other #IndustrialFacilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
"Critics say the move could thwart local residents from learning about proposed data centers or making their voices heard before projects are approved and construction begins. The move comes during a widespread backlash as #TechGiants build hundreds of massive #ServerWarehouses to fuel #ArtificialIntelligence and #CloudComputing.
" 'By eliminating the long-standing federal requirement for public notice, this proposal continues efforts by the Trump administration to turn its back on the fundamental EPA principle of transparency,' said Mike Koerber, a former deputy director of EPA’s air quality office.
"If made final, the plan could create 'an unlevel playing field where citizens in one state are kept completely in the dark about new data centers and heavy industrial emissions in their backyards, while neighboring states maintain oversight,' he said.
"Under the EPA plan, states with weak or no requirements for #PublicComment could speed permits for data centers, #PowerPlants and other #PollutionSources without consulting the public or even informing communities where the facilities are located, Koerber and other critics said."
#USPol #EPAFail #NoDatacenters #NoAIDatacenters #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #EnergyWaste #CorporateGreed #CorporateColonialism #DatacenterMoratoriums #Datacentres #Hyperscale #PhysicalMedia #NoPublicComment #SneakyTechGiants #AI
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Air pollution from ships may be more harmful than road traffic emissions, port study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/04/pollutionwatch-ships-air-pollution-emissions-port-study #AirPollution #CruiseShips #pollution #viruses #PublicHealth #environment #ManMadeClimateChange #BigOilKnew #PhaseOutFossilFuels
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There are serious life-shortening consequences of breathing polluted air
by Dr Karine Nohr
A British landmark study of over 3,400 London children aged between 6 and 9 years old measured the impact of air quality improvement following the introduction of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and found that reduced emissions are strongly associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Just published by one of the global leading medical journals, the ‘Lancet Public Health’ , the ‘CHILL’ study is one that all of us, everywhere, need to understand.
The study measured the health of children’s lungs living in areas that would subsequently become low-emission traffic zones and then re-measured annually for 5 years after the introduction of ULEZ.
Prior to the study, children living in these traffic areas had reduced lung size and reduced lung function.
Key findings of the study were that after the introduction of ULEZ, London children not only had reversed stunting of the growth of their lungs, with many of them coming back up to the normal size expected for their lungs, but they also had increased lung capacity. The proportion of London children suffering from clinically impaired lung capacity had dropped significantly.
This is such an important finding for protecting the health of our children.
This study provides strong evidence that traffic-related air pollution is a serious risk factor for lung disease and early death and behoves us all to take the impact of our use of fossil fuels very seriously, driving being the most significant contributant of air pollution.
Despite controversy, Sheffield Councillors introduced a CAZ in 2023, and pollution levels have dropped sharply.
Dr Laura-Jane Smith, a London consultant in Respiratory Medicine, sees patients every day in her clinics who are fighting for their breath. She said that her adult patients who live in the ULEZ area are also reporting that they are breathing better and they are having fewer flare-ups that could see them end up in hospital.
Now there is clear proof of how much harm is done to the lungs by vehicle use. So should we all start asking ourselves, ‘How essential is it for me to make this journey by car?’
The argument that has been used by some car drivers that any driving restrictions are ‘infringements of their rights’ must be weighed against infringement of the right of the rest of us, particularly children, but also adults, the right to breathe clean air, and the serious life-shortening consequences of breathing polluted air.
#AirPollution #CAZ #CHILL #CleanAirZone #climateChange #DrLauraJaneSmith #environment #health #LancetPublicHealth #lungCapacity #RespiratoryMedicine #sustainability #ULEZ #UltraLowEmissionZone -
Less #airpollution previously related to clean air and #climate policies is linked to improved #cognitivescores over time in NYC children
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-026-01328-1
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The #EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that #states notify the #public & seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for #DataCenters & other #industrial facilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
#Trump #law #transparency #regulation #electricity #energy #affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #tech #AI #Vote
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The #EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that #states notify the #public & seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for #DataCenters & other #industrial facilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
#Trump #law #transparency #regulation #electricity #energy #affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #tech #AI #Vote
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The #EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that #states notify the #public & seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for #DataCenters & other #industrial facilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
#Trump #law #transparency #regulation #electricity #energy #affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #tech #AI #Vote
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The #EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that #states notify the #public & seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for #DataCenters & other #industrial facilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
#Trump #law #transparency #regulation #electricity #energy #affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #tech #AI #Vote
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The #EPA proposal would eliminate a federal requirement that #states notify the #public & seek comment before issuing #AirPollution permits for #DataCenters & other #industrial facilities. States could still offer opportunities for public comment, but the EPA would no longer mandate them as a condition for states to grant permits.
#Trump #law #transparency #regulation #electricity #energy #affordability #CostOfLiving #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #tech #AI #Vote
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Schools are starting to go back, there's rain about and air quality may have taken a dip but let's celebrate what #Oxfordshire has achieved so far and make sure it stays on the agenda for future administrations. #CleanAir #AirPollution #ActiveTravel
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Isaac Beevor: Oxfordshire now ... -
Global Energy Monitor: U.S. gas power proposals tied to data centers nearly doubled in the first half of 2026. “The Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker² now counts 189 gigawatts (GW) of gas-fired capacity in the U.S. across the announced, pre-construction, and construction phases, which is intended to meet the exponential increase in electricity demand brought by the booming data center […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/global-energy-monitor-u-s-gas-power-proposals-tied-to-data-centers-nearly-doubled-in-the-first-half-of-2026/ -
Floodlight: One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’. “The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after a Floodlight visual investigation found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators. Thermal drone footage we captured last week showed the partly completed DataOne facility in Vineland […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/29/floodlight-one-of-east-coasts-largest-data-centers-accused-of-violating-federal-law/ -
Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
#Health #WildfireSmoke #Wildfires #AirPollution #ClimateChange #Dust #PublicHealth #Environment #HumanHealth #Science #Canada #WildfireSeason
https://the-14.com/vulnerability-to-wildfire-smoke-is-in-our-genes-thanks-to-an-evolutionary-quirk/ -
Report finds rock art damage more extensive than thought
By Alistair Bates and Kimberley PutlandThe Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program finds pollutants from previous industrial activity have damaged a larger area of ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula than previously thought.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/pilbara-murujuga-rock-monitoring-report/107075210
#EnvironmentalImpacts #IndigenousAustralians #AirPollution #IndigenousCulture #Industry #AlistairBates #KimberleyPutland
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto says authorities will revoke the permits of companies found to be responsible for forest fires that have left a Malaysian city with the world's worst air pollution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/25/asia-pacific/prabowo-indonesia-fires-world-worst-air/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #prabowosubianto #airpollution #smog #indonesia #climatechange #wildfires #southeastasia
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Importing queen bees won’t solve Canada’s beekeeping problems
#Canada #Environment #Beekeeping #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Pollution #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Farming #BeeColonies #Ecosystem #HoneyBees #FoodSystem #AirPollution #QueenBees #Beehive
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Air Pollution Could Be Contributing to Your Slower Marathon Time
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/climate/marathon-running-air-pollution.html
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#Airpollution may be raising risk of #lungcancer in ‘never-#smokers’: Study
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The pedantic Trumpy idiots in robes have spoken.
#SCROTUS #EPA #airpollution #methane #mercury
WASHINGTON—The U.S. #SupremeCourt declined on Friday to put #onhold new federal #airpollution rules from President Joe Biden's administration to tighten limits on mercury and methane acting in challenges brought by a group of states - most of them Republican-led - and industry groups.
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How #AirPollution is causing girls to get their first #periods earlier
New research shows that girls in the US are getting their first periods earlier. Exposure to toxic air is partly to blame.
By David Cox, June 4, 2024
"The same trend has also been noted around the world. South Korean scientists have described with some alarm how the number of girls displaying signs of precocious puberty – either breast development or #menstruation before the age of eight - increased 16-fold between 2008 and 2020.
"We're also seeing that these decreasing ages at puberty are even more pronounced in lower socioeconomic status groups, and ethnic minority groups," says Audrey Gaskins, an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, the US. "This has important implications for long-term health."
Researchers like Gaskins are primarily concerned that beginning puberty earlier might trigger a cascade of events which have far-reaching consequences later in adulthood. Emerging data suggests that it may not only curtail the fertility window, particularly if these women then enter menopause sooner, but shorten their lives. Precocious puberty has been repeatedly associated with a higher risk of diseases ranging from breast and ovarian cancers, metabolic syndromes such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease."
By David Cox, June 4, 2024
"For several decades, scientists around the world have become increasingly concerned by signs that girls are entering puberty at a much younger age compared with previous generations.
From when girls experience their first period, something which scientists term the age of menarche, to commencing breast development, these seminal changes marking the onset of adolescence appear to be taking place progressively sooner.
"American girls today have been estimated to start menstruation up to four years earlier compared to girls living a century ago. In May, new data showed that while girls born between 1950 and 1969 typically began menstruating at 12.5 years, this decreased to an average of 11.9 years for the generation born in the early 2000s.
"The same trend has also been noted around the world. South Korean scientists have described with some alarm how the number of girls displaying signs of precocious puberty – either breast development or menstruation before the age of eight - increased 16-fold between 2008 and 2020.
"'We're also seeing that these decreasing ages at puberty are even more pronounced in lower socioeconomic status groups, and ethnic minority groups,' says Audrey Gaskins, an associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, the US. 'This has important implications for long-term health.'
"Researchers like Gaskins are primarily concerned that beginning puberty earlier might trigger a cascade of events which have far-reaching consequences later in adulthood. Emerging data suggests that it may not only curtail the fertility window, particularly if these women then enter menopause sooner, but shorten their lives. Precocious puberty has been repeatedly associated with a higher risk of diseases ranging from breast and ovarian cancers, metabolic syndromes such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
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"Some of the major culprits appear to be #ToxicGases such as #SulphurDioxide, #NitrogenDioxide, #CarbonMonoxide and #ozone, all of which are released into the air either through #VehicleEmissions or waste produced by #Manufacturing Plants. In 2022, a study from scientists in Poland, a country known for its poor air quality due to the prevalence of #coal-burning factories, examined data from 1,257 women, and found a link between greater exposure to nitrogen gases and menstruation occurring before the age of 11."
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“Unprecedented” – CO2 Rising 10 Times Faster Than Any Time in Recorded History
https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-co2-rising-10-times-faster-than-any-time-in-recorded-history/ #co2 #carbon #airpollution #climatechange #greenhousegases #greenhouseeffect #climatecollapse #extinction #antarctica #oceanlevels -
CW: The medical evidence of air pollution
#AirPollution has sent many people to an early grave
To paraphrase "Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), coal & wood smoke pollution is ubiquitous in today’s cities, towns & villages
& a major public health concern
resulting in premature death
& a wide spectrum of global diseases" https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819136-1.00003-6'the invisible killer' https://theecologist.org/2018/nov/27/air-pollution-invisible-killer
#science #health #ClimateChange #TrafficPollution #FossilFuels #WoodSmoke #disease #money #greenwash
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I suppose everyone could start wearing respirators everywhere. I feel like it’d be unpleasant, but I have been wanting our cyberpunk dystopia to better fit the genre’s aesthetic.
#AirPollution #TrafficPollution #Exhaust #pollution #Brain #Health #Degrowth
