Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Air Pollution News & Alerts - April 30th, 2014



WRI, April, 2014
10 Questions to Ask About Electricity Tariffs.

The Hindu, April 30th, 2014
The road to safety.

The Guardian, April 30th, 2014
Almost half of Americans live with unhealthy levels of air pollution.

Voice of America, April 30th, 2014
Beijing Targets Kebab Vendors' Grills in War on Pollution.

Business Recorder, April 30th, 2014
Beijing says one third of its pollution comes from outside the city.

Tree Hugger, April 30th, 2014
Diesel exhaust linked to premature death (again).

Environmental Expert, April 30th, 2014
PM2.5 air pollution strongly linked to increased risk of heart attacks.

Atlantic Cities, April 30th, 2014
California's Metros Take the Prize for 2014's Most-Polluted Cities.

Atlantic Cities, April 30th, 2014
You May Be Addicted to Your Car.

Korea Times, April 29th, 2014
Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle ultrafine dust.

The Guardian, April 29th, 2014
Diesel engine pollution linked to early deaths and costs NHS billions.

Bloomberg Business, April 29th, 2014
The Supreme Court Dims the Lights on Coal Power.

TIME, April 29th, 2014
Supreme Court Ruling Will Force Power Plants To Stem Downwind Pollution.

Economic Times, April 29th, 2014
Assess water diversion to thermal plants.

Washington Post, April 29th, 2014
What if we mapped cities by how hard it is to get to work?

The City Fix, April 29th, 2014
Urban green space makes people happier than money.

Atlantic Cities, April 29th, 2014
The Year Climate Change Closed Everest.

LA Times, April 29th, 2014
L.A., Central Valley have worst air quality, American Lung Assn. says.

Steel Guru, April 28th, 2014
Coal continuing dominance in Chinese.

Latin Post, April 28th, 2014
Global Warming and Air Pollution Report: Emissions Down in Developed Nations, Rising in Developing Nations.

Times of India, April 28th, 2014
Mahagenco fly ash utilization unsatisfactory @ 63%.

Atlantic Cities, April 28th, 2014
Will Global Warming Produce More Tornadoes?

Air Quality News, April 28th, 2014
Greens: UK needs to ‘toughen up’ on air pollution.

Travel Weekly, April 28th, 2014
The media's fixation with China's air quality.

Times of India, April 26th, 2014
Farmers burn crop residue, Greens worried in Central India.

Phys.Org, April 25th, 2014
Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use.

Reuters, April 25th, 2014
Kashmir sets up environment tribunals to curb pollution.

Science Daily, April 25th, 2014
Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use: Why what we eat matters.

Science Daily, April 25th, 2014
Climate change: Don't wait until you can feel it.

Science Daily, April 25th, 2014
Small-scale, urban allotments yield food, healthy soil.

Digital Journal, April 25th, 2014
Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Boilers Market in 2018.

Health Canal, April 25th, 2014
Pollutants from Coal-Burning Stoves Strongly Associated with Miscarriages in Mongolia.

International Business Times, April 24th, 2014
China Revises 25-Year Environment Law as Pollution Chokes Nation.

New York Times, April 24th, 2014
China: Legislature Toughens Environmental Law.

Energy Central, April 24th, 2014
Power station's biomass switch closer to reality.

World Coal, April 23rd, 2014
Indonesia and the great coal glut.

Energy Central, April 23rd, 2014
Unreliable power worries investors.

Science Daily, April 23rd, 2014
Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia.

Wall Street Journal, April 23rd, 2014
China Lifts Ban on New Refining Projects.

Indian Express, April 22nd, 2014
Need to include NCR areas in study on air quality.

Power Engineering, April 22nd, 2014
China reinforces clean energy message.

Legal Brief Today, April 22nd, 2014
Clean coal technology plans for SA proceed space.

Power Engineering, April 22nd, 2014
Dominion: More than 1 million tons of waste coal recycled at Virginia power plant.

Phys.Org, April 21st, 2014
Study casts doubt on climate benefit of biofuels from corn residue.

Huffington Post, April 21st, 2014
Can China Win the War on Air Pollution?

Times of India, April 21st, 2014
Pollution from crematoria irks Kolkata residents.

Energy Central, April 21st, 2014
Tata Power expands green energy power generation capacity by 646.7 MW.

Simple Climate, April 19th, 2014
Dump fossil fuels for the health of our hearts.

Sydney Morning Herald, April 19th, 2014
Asthma, acid rain: life in one of India's most polluted cities.

Reuters, April 18th, 2014
U.S. court upholds cement plant emissions standards.

Liberty Voice, April 18th, 2014
Air Pollution Will Decrease With Cooler Climate.

Atlantic Cities, April 18th, 2014
2 Charts That Put the Chinese Pollution Crisis in Perspective.

Economic Times, April 18th, 2014
Power Outages may fall as coal stocks improve at plants.

World Bulletin, April 18th, 2014
Turkey privatizes two thermal power plants.

Science Daily, April 18th, 2014
Future heat waves pose risk for population of Greater London.

New York Times, April 17th, 2014
One-Fifth of China’s Farmland Is Polluted.

Wall Street Journal, April 17th, 2014
China Details Vast Extent of Soil Pollution.

EDF News, April 17th, 2014
My climate confession: I assumed we had limits on power plant pollution.

ECNS News, April 17th, 2014
Shanghai chokes on smog as air heavily polluted.

Times of India, April 17th, 2014
Fertilizer costly, fly ash can work magic.

MIT Technology Review, April 17th, 2014
Selling Teslas in China Won’t Do Much for the Environment.

Trans World News, April 17th, 2014
Countries in Asia, particularly China, show interest in developing carbon technologies.

Vancouver Sun, April 17th, 2014
Opinion: Shipping coal to China pollutes air in British Columbia.

NY Times, April 16th, 2014
Measuring Africa’s Air Pollution.

NPR, April 16th, 2014
Man Reaches For The Sun For A Solution To Pakistan's Gas Crisis.

Times of India, April 16th, 2014
Gas shortage cripples power plants in capital.

Digital Journal, April 16th, 2014
Thermal Power in Brazil, Market Outlook to 2025, 2014 Update - Capacity, Generation, Power Plants, Regulations and Company Profiles.

EcoGeek, April 16th, 2014
Ontario Completely Off Coal.

The Guardian, April 15th, 2014
China's air pollution leading to more erratic climate for US.

The City Fix, April 15th, 2014
The intersection of public health and transport in Indian cities.

Power Engineering, April 15th, 2014
Ontario shuts down final coal-fired power plant, officially coal-free.

Resources Career, April 15th, 2014
Hunt sees years of coal, says carbon will be captured.

Asahi Shimbum, April 15th, 2014
Sharp fall in Japanese children at schools in China due to PM2.5.

Phys.Org, April 15th, 2014
Asian air pollution affect Pacific Ocean storms.

Shanghai Daily, April 15th, 2014
Air quality index gets new hourly updates.

RE Economy, April 15th, 2014
India’s dirty coal problem – and why it’s bad news for Australia.

Global Legal Post, April 15th, 2014
Japan's New Energy Act sparks controversy.

Power Engineering, April 15th, 2014
Latin America must install 14 GW of new capacity a year.

Quartz, April 15th, 2014
How many hours of your life is air pollution stealing from you?

Times of India, April 15th, 2014
Asian air pollution affecting Northern Hemisphere's weather patterns.

Global Post, April 15th, 2014
Gov't to shut down schools when under fine dust alert.

China Daily, April 14th, 2014
Nitrogen oxide key to battling smog.

The Guardian, April 14th, 2014
The IPCC's message is clear: it's the end of business as usual for fossil fuel users.

The City Fix, April 14th, 2014
Urbanism Hall of Fame: Lee Kwan Yew shaped Singapore as the “Garden City”.

Inhabitat, April 14th, 2014
Glow-in-the-Dark 'Smart Highways' Replace Street Lights in the Netherlands.

Xinhua Net, April 14th, 2014
Beijing air "seriously polluted".

Bloomberg News, April 14th, 2014
Despite Hazardous Smog, Beijing Breaks Into Ranks of Top 10 Global Cities.

Business Green, April 14th, 2014
Treasury claim that fuel duty freeze benefits economy ignores climate and air pollution impacts.

BBC, April 14th, 2014
Asian air pollution strengthens Pacific storms.

The Guardian, April 14th, 2014
Will Panasonic's 'hazard pay' make a difference to air pollution in China?

Capital Press, April 14th, 2014
Agriculture may contribute to air pollution.

Bangalore Mirror, April 14th, 2014
Steer clear from dust.

BBC News, April 13th, 2014
Coal gasification: The clean energy of the future?

NPR, April 13th, 2014
Climate Change Adjustments Must Be Fast And Major, U.N. Panel Says.

Science Daily, April 13th, 2014
Greenhouse gas emissions from today will be felt for at least 1,000 years.

Space Daily, April 13th, 2014
China uses satellite, drones to fight pollution.

Moscow Times, April 13th, 2014
Every Dirty Breath You Take.

The Guardian, April 13th, 2014
Pollutionwatch: Danger in the air.

Hindustan Times, April 12th, 2014
Watchdog cracks whip on polluting service stations.

Global Times, April 12th, 2014
Beijing mulls smoking ban.

Scientific American, April 12th, 2014
Air Visibility Monitoring.

The Scotsman, April 12th, 2014
Leaders: Pollution levels prove cars are killing us.

The Guardian, April 11th, 2014
Cities bear the brunt of air pollution – they can also solve it.

Science Daily, April 11th, 2014
Odds that global warming is due to natural factors: Slim to none.

Science Daily, April 11th, 2014
NASA simulation portrays ozone intrusions from aloft.

The Guardian, April 11th, 2014
London's smog crisis was just an average day in many Chinese cities.

World Coal, April 11th, 2014
What future for UK coal?

Power Engineering, April 10th, 2014
AEP revises portfolio forecast, adds more coal than predicted.

Huffington Post, April 10th, 2014
Jar Of Fresh French Mountain Air Sells For £512 In Smog Smothered Beijing.

Xinhua Net, April 10th, 2014
Beijing pollutants too much for environment.

Reuters, April 10th, 2014
Cities need better warning systems for air pollution.

Quartz News, April 10th, 2014
Six years of Beijing air pollution summed up in one scary chart.

Echo News, April 10th, 2014
Councils told to more to protect people from air pollution as south east is named as worst area in the UK.

BBC, April 9th, 2014
Reducing car pollution easier than UN experts thought.

Power Engineering, April 9th, 2014
IEA praises Austria for ‘balanced’ energy policy.

ECNS News, April 9th, 2014
Beijing mulls E-license plates for 2015 congestion charge policy.

Science Daily, April 9th, 2014
Study pegs fuel economy costs of common practices.

NPR, April 8th, 2014
NASA Image Shows Volcanic Island Has Annexed Its Neighbor.

Power Engineering, April 8th, 2014
Indonesia plans $1.8bn coal-fired power plant.

China Daily, April 8th, 2014
China to close nearly 2000 small coal mines.

Bloomberg, April 8th, 2014
China Auto Sales Rise 9% as Curbs Spur Purchases.

Global Times, April 7th, 2014
What is the best way to combat air pollution?

Mail India, April 7th, 2014
Road ministry to scrap trucks and buses more than eight years old to combat air pollution.

Indian Express, April 6th, 2014
Hail the New Auto.

Power Engineering, April 4th, 2014
$675m coal-fired power plants for Sumatra.

Xinhua Net, April 3rd, 2014
China develops 3-day smog forecasts.

TIME, April 3rd, 2014
Smoggy Sand: How Deserts Spread Air Pollution.

The Blade, April 2nd, 2014
China syndrome.

China Daily, April 2nd, 2014
China's first market-priced railway approved.

China Daily, April 2nd, 2014
Beijing gets tough on big polluters.

Wall Street Journal, March 31st, 2014
Bags of Mountain Air Offered in Smog-Addled Chinese City.

World Bank, March 28th, 2014
World Bank Approves $600 Million to Support Railway, Public Transport, and Gas Utilization in China.

China Dialogue, March 27th, 2014
Real-time air quality assessments are critical for helping limit public exposure to high levels of air pollution.

China Dialogue, March 11th, 2014
China's parliamentary delegates attack air quality fraud.

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