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At last, the shipping industry begins cleaning up its dirty fuels

July 13, 2018

“By 2020, the global shipping fleet will be required to slash the noxious emissions from thick, sulfur-laden “bunker” fuel, a move that is expected to sharply reduce air pollution and prevent millions of cases of childhood asthma and other respiratory ailments.” Click here to read more from Yale 360.

Premature birth rate drops after closure of California coal and oil plants

May 25, 2018

Sarina Soor

air pollution, coal, health

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“Within a year of eight coal- and oil-fired power plant retirements, the rate of preterm births in mothers living close by dropped, finds new study on air pollution. Researchers scrutinized records of more than 57,000 births by mothers who lived close to eight coal- and oil-fired plants across California in the year before the facilities…

CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool

March 22, 2018

Sarina Soor

air pollution, cobra, energy policy, tool

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What is COBRA? EPA’s CO–Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) screening model is a free tool that helps state and local governments: Explore how changes in air pollution from clean energy policies and programs, including energy efficiency and renewable energy, can affect human health at the county, state, regional, or national levels. Estimate the economic value of…

Burning coal for survival in the world’s coldest capital

March 16, 2018

Sarina Soor

air pollution, coal

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“For the nearly 1.5 million residents of the capital, Ulan Bator, the misery of winter is defined almost singularly by the smoke rising out of the city’s chimneys. Since 2016, in addition to being the world’s coldest capital city, it has also had the distinction of being the one with the highest recorded levels of…