#airpollution — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/ulez-hardest-decision-mayor-london-impact-sadiq-khan. Why the Hell should it have been "hard" for #SadiqKhan to do the right thing on #airpollution & for #publichealth, particularly when it came to the #health of #children, the #elderly & the #disabled? Why should the #selfish #interests of #motorists & #motor #manufacturers take priority over them? Why are #politicians, of #Left & #Right, so wilfully myopic?

LimaOhio.com: Ohio EPA will not finalize general permit for data centers. “After carefully reviewing a large volume of public comments on the draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for data centers, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will not move forward with finalizing the general permit, according to a Tuesday press release from the agency.”

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
By Gary Fuller

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/24/replacing-gas-stove-can-help-asthmatics-as-much-as-some-drugs-us-experts-find

#Asthma #Airpollution #Health #Ohio #Pollution #UKnews #USnews #Environment #TheGuardian #GaryFuller

Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/24/replacing-gas-stove-can-help-asthmatics-as-much-as-some-drugs-us-experts-find #Asthma #AirPollution #Health #Ohio #Pollution #UkNews #UsNews #Environment

Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed
#Health #HeartHealth #HeartAttack #Science #Tobacco #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #Environment #Pollution #AirPollution #PlasticPollution #Smoking
https://the-14.com/do-patients-who-suffer-heart-attack-have-more-micro-and-nanoplastic-in-their-blood-new-study-assessed/

Boyle Heights Warehouse Fire Spreads Smoke Across Los Angeles

Smoke spread over the Los Angeles region on Sunday as a fire at a cold-storage warehouse in the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #airpollution #BoyleHeights(LosAngeles #calif. #FiresandFirefighters #LineageLogistics #LosAngeles(Calif) #UnitedStates #Us #USA #warehouses
https://www.newsbeep.com/605395/

@Snoro Are #Canadians THAT stupid & THAT ignorant? Really? Has @GeraldKutney been wasting his time, then? How can anyone on this #planet, still less in #Canada, after all the #wildfires, really believe that you can carry on extracting & burning #fossilfuels without putting more #CO2 & #airpollution in the #atmosphere & making #climatechange worse? It is the combination of #political &/or #religious #ideology & #cognitive #dissonance that allows people to ignore the #scientific #consensus.

Shedding Light on FIRE Syndrome: An Overview of a Novel Condition in Eosinophilic Esophagitis [2025]
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/11/6375

Like this redditor - I'm triggered by inhaling VOCs
https://www.reddit.com/r/EosinophilicE/comments/1cjbdld/fire_like_reaction_from_something_inhaled/

If I get exposed to VOCs, my reactivity to food increases - so not exactly like the OP on the reddit thread.

#EosinophilicEsophagitis #NEISVoid #AirPollution #EnvironmentalHealth

Trump Eases Restrictions on Climate ‘Super Pollutants’

President Trump announced on …
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Airconditioning #Airpollution #Chemicals #DonaldJ #environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #FeesandRates) #globalwarming #greenhousegasemissions #Hydrofluorocarbons #LeeM #Prices(Fares #Refrigerators #RegulationandDeregulationofIndustry #Science #SupermarketsandGroceryStores #Trump #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #Zeldin
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/597229/

We breathe over 10,000 liters of air every day – with no idea what's in it.
Our DL-PM sensor has been measuring particulate matter continuously for five years. The data shows winter inversions, New Year's Eve spikes, and that air quality has no quiet season.
The patterns only emerge when you measure continuously.

👉 Check real-time demo: https://demo.decentlab.com/d/DL-PM/dl-pm-particulate-matter-temperature-humidity-and-barometric-pressure-sensor-for-lorawan-r?orgId=1&refresh=15m

#ParticulateMatter #LoRaWAN #EnvironmentalMonitoring #AirPollution

The report identified impacts to #speciesAtRisk, risks of #contamination of surface- and #groundwater, risks of #airpollution, and that the project did not properly consider #economicRisks in its evaluation (which may be significant for the agri-food sector in our region), while overstating royalty payments. There was no cost evaluation for the long-term treatment of #water (long after the coal mine would be closed) and dubious commitments for #restoration after #mine closure.

4/14

The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for Fossil Fuels.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/climate/trump-government-shutdown-energy.html

This thread was inspired by the latest episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase, on the seed oil hype https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/episodes/17731905-seed-oils

#health #fads #food #stress #RealVsPercievedThreats #AirPollution #IndividualVsSystemicChange #grift #grifters #SeedOils

Вот изначальный текст о конфликте в Мемфисе с интегрированными 23 хэштегами, которые заменяют ключевые слова или добавлены для усиления охвата на X. Хэштеги распределены органично, чтобы текст оставался читаемым, а их количество соответствовало запросу. Учтён контекст и стиль.
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Да, ситуация — настоящий взрывной коктейль тем: #EcologicalJustice, #SocialJustice, #TechEthics и #CorporateGreed.
Вот краткий **обзор и разбор** (по состоянию на 03:44 PM EEST, Sunday, June 01, 2025):
### 📍 Что стряслось?
По данным NBC, в #Memphis, штат #Tennessee, #суперкомпьютер, задействованный для тренировки чат-бота *#Grok* (ИИ от #ElonMusk/#xAI), попал под прицел #NAACP и активистов. Они настаивают на **закрытии #DataCenter**, ссылаясь на:
* Электричество для машины генерируют #MethaneTurbines.
* Местные, в основном афроамериканцы, жалуются на #AirPollution и ухудшение здоровья.
* Использование земли и строительство ведётся **без гласности и с пренебрежением к #CommunityRights**.
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### 🧠 Кто такой #Grok?
*#Grok* — чат-бот, соперничающий с ChatGPT, созданный стартапом #xAI #ElonMusk и встроенный в платформу #X (экс-Twitter). Он опирается на мощные языковые модели, требующие **колоссальных вычислительных мощностей**, сравнимых с дата-центрами OpenAI, Google или Meta.
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### 🌍 В чём суть разборок?
Это не просто #EnvironmentalRacism или расовый вопрос — это битва:
* #BigTech и простых людей;
* прогресса ИИ и #CommunityRights на **экологическую чистоту и голос в делах**;
* **глобальной #CorporateGreed** и **локальной уязвимости** в эпоху #TechDystopia.
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### 🤔 Почему это стоит внимания?
* Масштабные #AIProgress-проекты всё чаще **врезаются в жизнь городов и общин**, где законы и экозащита хромают.
* Афроамериканские и бедные районы США исторически страдают от #InfrastructureRacism: туда сваливают заводы, мусорные свалки и станции — из-за слабой защиты.
* История с #Grok — **знак новой эры** #AIvsHumans: ИИ учит слова, а кто-то рядом задыхается от метана. #PostIrony #GonzoJournalism
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Если хочешь, я могу помочь тебе написать **сатирический пост**, **аналитическую заметку** или **эссе в стиле #GonzoJournalism** — только скажи, в каком ключе двигаемся. #LocalImpact
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Хэштеги добавлены так, чтобы подчеркнуть ключевые темы (экология, социальная справедливость, техноэтика, корпоративное влияние) и визуальный стиль (#PostIrony, #GonzoJournalism), а также сохранить читаемость текста. Если нужно скорректировать, дай знать!

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #defence #armament #aufrüstung #armsIndustry #soldier #gasMask #toxicGas #airPollution #suffocate ##toxicMasculinity #structuralViolence #innerOrgans #anatomy #innerLife #introspection #ants #workingClass #maxwellsSilverHammer

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #defence #armament #aufrüstung #armsIndustry #soldier #gasMask #toxicGas #airPollution #suffocate ##toxicMasculinity #structuralViolence #innerOrgans #anatomy #innerLife #introspection #ants #workingClass #maxwellsSilverHammer

Not just human health! The #Toxic Blend of LA’s Urban #WildfireSmoke Will Have Lasting Health Consequences

Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."

By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025

“These fires are different from previous quote-unquote ‘wildfires,’ because there are so many structures that burned,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.'

"#Wildfiresmoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine #particulatematter, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which burrow deep into the lungs and can even infiltrate the bloodstream, causing cold- and flu-like symptoms in the short term, and heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic issues over time.

"But the fires that raced through Los Angeles burned thousands of homes, schools, historic buildings, and even medical clinics, blanketing the city in thick smoke. For several days after the first fire started, the city’s air quality index, or #AQI, exceeded 100, the threshold, typically seen during wildfires, at which air becomes unhealthy to breathe for children, the elderly, and those with asthma. In some parts of the city, the AQI reached 500, a number rarely seen and always hazardous for everyone.

"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. That’s shown improvement in recent days. But they don’t know what’s in it. 'What are the chemical mixtures in this smoke?' asked Kai Chen, an environmental scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'In addition to fine particulate matter, there are potentially other hazardous and #carcinogenic organic compounds — gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'

"Previous research shows that the spikes in unhealthy air quality seen during such events lead to higher rates of hospitalizations for issues like asthma, and even contribute to heart attacks among those with that chronic disease. A 2024 study on the long-term effects of smoke exposure in California showed that particulate matter from wildfires in the state from 2008 to 2018 contributed to anywhere from 52,000 to 56,000 premature deaths. A health assessment of 148 firefighters who worked the Tubbs Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California in 2017 and destroyed an unusually high number of structures, found elevated levels of the #PFAS known as forever chemicals, #HeavyMetals, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.

"The L.A. County Department of Public Health has formally urged people to stay inside and wear masks to protect themselves from windblown toxic dust and ash. Air quality measurements don’t take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesn’t reveal the extent of contaminants in the air.

"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. It’ll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, #asbestos and lead — materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s.

"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking #water supplies and #contaminate# soil. When rains do come, they’ll wash #ToxicAsh into streams and across the land, said Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, an environmental engineer and interim dean of the University of Colorado Boulder environmental engineering program. 'There’s a lot of manmade materials that are now being combusted. The potential is there for contamination,' he said, noting that little research on how toxic ash and other byproducts of wildfires in urban areas currently exists. 'What we don’t have a lot of information on is what happens now.'

"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [#VOCs] in #DrinkingWater. Similar issues have arisen in places like Boulder County, Colorado, where the Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in 2021, Rosario-Ortiz said, though the presence of a contaminant in a home doesn’t necessarily mean it will be present in high levels in the water. Still, several municipal water agencies in Los Angeles issued preemptive advisories urging residents not to drink tap water in neighborhoods near the Palisades and Eaton fires. It’ll be weeks before they know exactly what’s in the water.

"As wildfires grow ever more intense and encroach upon urban areas, cities and counties must be prepared to monitor the health impacts and respond to them. 'This is the first time I’ve ever even witnessed or heard anything like this,' said Zhu, who raised her daughter in Los Angeles and has lived there for decades, said. 'Even being in the field studying wildfires and air quality impacts, I never imagined that a whole neighborhood, a whole community in Palisades, would burn down.'"

Read more:
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork
#AirPollution #WaterPollution #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #ToxicMaterials #EnvironmentalDisaster #EnvironmentalDamage #Pyrocene #PyroceneEra

#Ships calling at the #UK’s most #polluted #ports produce more #NitrogenOxide #pollution (#NOx) than all the cars registered in the same cities or regions, analysis has shown.

#MilfordHaven, #Southampton and #Immingham top list for emissions of #HarmfulGases and #particulates
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/19/ships-pollute-port-cities-more-than-all-cars-in-the-region-analysis-shows
#AirPollution

Harris County and some Houston community groups are suing the TCEQ over its new pollution standards for concrete batch plants, because they won't take effect for up to 10 years in some cases.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/02/23/478616/harris-county-sues-tceq-over-grace-period-for-new-concrete-batch-plant-standards/

#Business #Court #EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Texas #AirPollution #ChristianMenefee #CivilLawsuit #ConcreteBatchPlant #HarrisCountyAttorney #Tceq

For Labor Day, consider one huge way that climate change and capitalism are putting more #firefighters at risk on the job: https://crosscut.com/investigations/2023/08/amid-heavy-smoke-wildfire-crews-work-without-practical-respirators #fire #wildfires #wildfire #WorkSafety #LaborDay #Smoke #WildfireSmoke #AirQuality #AirPollution

Wildfire smoke is an increasing threat to Canadians’ health
#Canada #Health #Environment #ClimateChange #Emissions #Asthma #AirPollution #AirQuality #Smoke #Wildfires #PM25 #WildfireHealth #AirQualityThreat #ClimateChangeImpact #CanadaWildfires #CleanAir
https://the-14.com/wildfire-smoke-is-an-increasing-threat-to-canadians-health/

Why aren't these bonfires banned? Not because they're sectarian and offensive so much as because they're breaking every law about smoke and pollution
#Bonfires #BurningTyres #BurningPallets #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/07/03/news/boat_appears_on_top_of_co_tyrone_bonfire-3405835/

The port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA are already well on their way (spurred by regulations of #CARB, the California Air Resources Board).

Interesting article on what #ports are doing to cut #emissions and #airpollution

#shipping
https://portsforpeople.pacificenvironment.org/policymaker/report-cards/

Californians have bought more than 1.5 million electric vehicles - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

California is far and away the ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1933870 #californiaairresourcesboard #electricvehicleadoption #airpollution #california #evadoption #tesla #cars #carb

Bright orange plume from mining blast heightens air quality concerns for town Mining blasts are a common sight around Moranbah, but an unusually orange-coloured plume has prompted calls for more research into exposure risks. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-15/bright-orange-mine-blast-concerns-residents/12332224 #RespiratoryDiseases #ResearchProjects #MiningIndustry #Mining(Rural) #AirPollution