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If you can see it, taste it or smell it…Don’t breathe it.
June 8, 2023 – By John Blair, valleywatch.net editor. Knowing that even slight elevation in fine particles can have serious impacts on human health, I cannot help but have great compassion for those people who are having to live in … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Air Quality, bad air, Climate Change, Coal, global wamring, IQAir, Valley Watch
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Researchers Now Have Even More Proof That Air Pollution Can Cause Dementia
May 6, 2019 -By Aaron Rueben in Mother Jones Magazine. Editor’s Note: Valley Watch has long observed a wide variety of issues pertaining to health and the environment and as a result have worked tirelessly to strengthen air pollution regulations … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, coal fired power plants, dementia, Indiana air pollution
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A Coal-to-Diesel Refinery Is the Last Straw for These Hoosiers
February 13, 2019 by Susan Cosier in Our Stories/Midwest Dispatch at NRDC The air in southwestern Indiana is bad enough without the emissions from yet another proposed polluter. A towering billboard in southwestern Indiana greets drivers heading west on Interstate 64: “Governor Holcomb, please—No rotten egg smell! No more … Continue reading
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
August 28, 2108 – by Damian Carrington and Lily Kuo in the Guardian Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’ Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Air Toxics, Coal, cognitive ability, fine particles, Human development, intelligence, Special education
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It’s Time to Give Air Quality the Attention It Deserves
March 22, 2017 – by Bob Henson in the Wunderblog of Weather Underground.com Each day of every year, a quiet disaster unfolds in households and hospitals across the world. More than 10,000 lives are lost worldwide every 24 hours as … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, fine particles, Health effects, Indiana air pollution
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A Terrifying Superbug Just Showed Up on a US Farm for the First Time
The bacteria found in a hog operation is resistant even to some of our most powerful antibiotics. December 7, 2016 – by Tom Philpott in Mother Jones More than 70 percent of the antibiotics consumed in the United States go … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, air pollution, antibiotics, Disease, farming, resistant antibiotics, water pollution
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Climate talks should consider ‘immediate’ health burden of air pollution
November 18, 2016 Release from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Air pollution is not only causing long-term damage to the planet and human health, but it is already killing millions of people worldwide. In an editorial published November 14, 2016 … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Coal, Coal fired power, Death, Disease, Harvard School of Public Health
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UPDATE: SECOND DAY of “Unhealthy” air but no alerts. A situation far too common in Evansville and we deserve better.
March 12, 2015 – by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor For the second day in a row, air quality in Evansville deteriorated to “unhealthy” levels and still no alerts. What goes here? Actually the level got all the way to 45.3µg/m3 at … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Evansville, Evansville EPA, fine particles, IDEM, Indiana
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That gallon of gas is actually costing you $6.25
March 6, 2015 – by Lindsay Abrams in Salon (Credit: nattanan/Shutterstock) Paying $2.45 for a gallon of gas is a lot more of a bargain than it sounds. If you took into account the health and environmental costs of burning fuel, finds a … Continue reading
Judge dismisses lawsuit against TVA over coal plant closing
February 10. 2015 – by Dave Flessner in the Times Free Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the coal industry against the Tennessee Valley Authority that tried to block TVA’s plans to shut down two of … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Air Toxics, Coal, fine particles, NAAQS, natural gas, Ozone, TVA
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Who You Gonna Believe About Smog’s Health Hazards, the Oil Lobby or Doctors & Scientists?
January 29, 2015-By John Walke, Clean Air Director, Natural Resources Defense Council An oil industry lobbying group just released a paper that inadvertently reveals the bankruptcy of Big Oil’s attacks on the health basis for more protective national standards for … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, asthma, Clean Air Act, NAAQS, Ozone, respiratory illness
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New Congress Prepares to Take Away Your Right to Clean, Safe Air
January 13, 2015-by John Walke, Air Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on legislation that would take away Americans’ longstanding right to clean, safe air based … Continue reading
Ten Things You Need to Know if You Burn Wood
December 1, 2014-by Josh Schlossberg in the Biomass Monitor Wood heating is on the rise. 2.7 million U.S. households, making up roughly 2% of the population, are projected to burn wood as a primary heating source over the winter of 2014-2015, a … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, american lung association, bioenergy, biomass, cancer, fireplace, lung disease, respiratory, wood smoke, wood stove
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EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Comes to Agreement on Ozone Standard Recommendation
June 4, 2014 – by Gretchen Goldman, analyst. Center for Science and Democracy Today the EPA’s chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) agreed on a recommendation to Administrator McCarthy regarding an update to the ambient air pollution standard for … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, Clean Air Act, NAAQS, Ozone, public health, science-based decision making
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