Tag: Air Pollution - Page 11
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Air Pollution Means Slower Marathon Times for Women but not Men
It makes sense that runners—especially those racing over the course of a marathon—inhale a lot more air than your average sedentary person. If that air is full of particulate and pollution it seems obvious
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Dpt. of Good Ideas: Wisconsin May Shut Down Five Coal Plants
Photo: Sierra Club The Power Stations are in Violation of Clean Air Regulations Sadly, sometimes it seems like it takes a lawsuit to make things happen. In 2007, the Sierra Club brought the state of Wisconsin to court over emissions from some state-run
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EPA Issues Tighter Regulation For Existing Stationary Diesel Engines
A stationary diesel engine on a dairy farm. Photo: nwnyteam Victory for Air Quality Just in the US, there are at least 900,000 stationary diesel engines generating electricity, mostly for agricultural and industrial purposes. Taken together, they
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Artist De-Pimps Hummer Into a Horse-Drawn Carriage (Updated)
Artist Jeremy Dean with his H2 Hummer that he's turning into a carriage. Update: After weeks of chopping, welding, and deconstructing, artist Jeremy Dean has finally unveiled the Hummer he's converted into a horse-drawn carriage. The end result may seem
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How Greenfleeting Uses the Power of Scale (Video)
All glory may be fleeting, but most of us wouldn't count fleeting as very glorious. But greenfleeting, the art of maximizing the efficiency of a fleet of vehicles, can pick up some big ecological gains if done right. Greenfleeting can mean choosing
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Better Air Quality Means Fewer Ear Infections in Children
Photo: Fickr, CC Pediatric Ear Infections Cost Between $3-5 Billion Annually in U.S. Ear infections are are a common illness among children, and that costs society a lot of money. From medication and other healthcare costs to lost work days for parents
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Air Pollution Can Harm Human Reproduction
As if more evidence was needed to combat air pollution caused from burning fossil fuels, two recently released reports articulate a human toll that may be higher than previously imagined. The studies, both out of Brazil, measure how
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Reversing Bush, EPA Proposes Strictest Ever Smog Standards
Another encouraging development from the EPA today--the agency has just announced it is proposing the strictest ever standards for smog in the US. Smog, or ground level ozone, is responsible for a slew of serious health
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The New Yorker on Designing a Stove to Save Millions
Image: Adrian TomineClean stoves have hit the big time, or at least attracted the attention of the EPA, World Health Organization, United Nations, and Oakridge National Laboratory, all of whom have taken an interest in cheap, hi-tech stoves and their
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Air Pollution Linked to Pneumonia Hospitalizations
Air pollution is a dirty, dangerous thing. It has been linked to appendicitus, birth defects in China, and irregular storm behavior.
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Aircraft Vapor Trails Responsible for 15-20% of Arctic Warming
Image credit: hodgers/Flickr digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/aircraft-vapor-trails-responsible-for-15-20-percent-of-arctic-warming.php';Even though there are an estimated 35 million commercial airline flights per year little research
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Gloria Reuben on the Dirty Lie of Clean Coal
When people describe their first time seeing mountaintop removal coal mining, the response is invariably the same: dropped jaws and sunken hearts. Along with her prolific work in film and television (ER, Raising the Bar), Gloria Reuben is a tireless
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India Launches New Biomass Cookstove Program - Big Human Health & Global Warming Benefits
If fully implemented, and done well, this next one could be a seriously big deal for improving health of rural Indians, as well as addressing climate change: Worldwatch Institute reports that India has launched a
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Forget About Climate Change, Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Has 'Major Direct Health Benefits'
Forget about climate change for one moment, a series of six papers appearing in The Lancet says that reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gases has "major direct health benefits." The papers examine
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EPA Proposes First Toughening of Air Quality Standards for Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Since 1971
Source: EPA About Time It's been almost 40 years since the EPA's SO2 standards were strengthened. Sounds like a tightening was overdue... Until now. The EPA is look at a proposal to establish a new national one-hour SO2 standard, between 50 and 100
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Are Short Flights Polluting Your Neighborhood?
A major air hub, with constant take-offs and landings and dozens of vehicles and large buildings is an obvious source of pollution. These huge airports may be strains of the atmosphere as a whole, but their immediate impact
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Suzuki Unveils First Fuel Cell Scooter, Will Hit Market in Few Months
The Bergman scooter launched this week at the Tokyo Motor Show and announced that it will be available globally within the next few months. There are still quite a few unanswered questions, like how much it will retail for, just
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6 Impending Disasters...and the Health Care Plan that Could Save You From Them
We've all seen Mad Max and been frightened, if only a bit, by how savage a future it depicts. As extreme as that world may be, there is something about its resource-hungry depravity that seems almost tangible.
