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Lessons from Yokkaichi pollution case passed on 50 years after ruling

Japan Times 24 Jul 2022
The Yokkaichi pollution incident is considered one of the four big pollution disease cases in Japan ... .
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Dark skies at night: Light pollution and what a park is doing about it

CBC 24 Jul 2022
St. John's seems brighter these days, according to people who spend more time than most gazing at the night sky, and some popular energy-saving solutions may be making things worse ... .
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Rally for air pollution bill held same day as chemical leak from East St. Louis plant

Marietta Daily Journal 24 Jul 2022
24—While activists talked about the ways they believe ...
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Each minute of power cut is a blow to pollution fight

The Times of India 24 Jul 2022
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How Minnesota's little, polluted Crow River clouds the Mississippi

Star Tribune 24 Jul 2022
The Crow is the first major agricultural river emptying into the mighty waterway, and it doubles the Mississippi's nutrient pollution, state officials say, adding phosphorous, nitrogen and sediment ... .
photo: AP / Ajit Solanki
Chief Minister of Punjab Bhagwant Mann tries his hands on a spinning wheel during a visit to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday, April 2, 2022
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Indian minister falls ill after drinking sewage-polluted water from holy river

Arab News 24 Jul 2022
DUBAI. A senior Indian minister, who drank a glass of dirty water that he filled from a sewage-polluted holy river to show locals it was drinkable, was hospitalized after falling sick ... He was discharged the next day, as reported by The New Indian Express ... ....
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Punjab: On Day 3, women lead protests against industrial water pollution

Indian Express 24 Jul 2022
... units and blaming us for that… We are only asking for the control of water pollution.” ... “All these years, only farmers were blamed for air pollution, water pollution and depletion of groundwater ..industry and municipal corporations are never questioned.”.
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How the plastic industry turned the pandemic to its advantage

The Guardian 24 Jul 2022
With its products proving indispensable to combatting Covid-19, the plastics business is reinvigorated. What will it take to bring this major polluter to heel? There are only two reasons that the plastics industry will change, a polymer scientist once told me. war or legislation.
photo: AP / Noah Berger
Flames engulf a chair inside a burning home as the Oak Fire burns in Mariposa County, Calif., on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
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How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires

Al Jazeera 24 Jul 2022
Brutal heatwaves are gripping Europe and the United States and are forecast to dump searing heat on much of China into late August. The searing heat is part of a global pattern of rising temperatures, attributed by scientists to human activity. Hotter, more frequent heatwaves. Climate change makes heatwaves hotter and more frequent ... .
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Fifty-year extension for Australia’s biggest CO2 emitter attracts record number of appeals

The Observer 24 Jul 2022
The previous record number of appeals lodged against a development in WA was 170, for the Bunbury Outer Ring Road last year ... ‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’ ... Read more ... The company could meet those targets by either actually cutting emissions or buying carbon credits to offset its pollution ... The academics found it was not ... Photograph ... Read more ... .
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Pennsylvania water plan may help lower pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, but by how much?

Marietta Daily Journal 23 Jul 2022
Captain Chris Ludford, the CEO of the Pleasure House Oyster Farm in Virginia Beach, was forced to close fifteen acres of oyster beds because of pollution on the Little Neck Creek. The grounds were conditionally open in the winter before ... .
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Businessinsider.co.za | Indian politician admitted to hospital after drinking water from a polluted river to ...

News24 23 Jul 2022
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was hospitalized after drinking from a revered Punjab rivulet, but his party says it was a routine checkup ... .
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Pollution Under Control Certificate violation in Delhi: More than 1,000 e-notices sent in two days

The Times of India 23 Jul 2022
The recipients got a week’s time to get their checked and get a Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate, failure of which would invite an of Rs 10,000 ... with pending pollution checks.
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Well that backfired! Indian minister, 48, drinks dirty water from 'holy' river polluted with sewage ...

The Daily Mail 23 Jul 2022
Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister of Punjab, was airlifted to New Delhi after downing the polluted water from the Kali Bein ... RELATED ARTICLES. Previous 1 Next ... Share this article. .
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Aluminum smelting company fined RM36,000 for causing environmental pollution

Malaysian National News Agency 23 Jul 2022
CRIME & COURTS. Aluminum smelting company fined RM36,000 for causing environmental pollution. For illustration purpose only. " data-media="">. 22/07/2022 05.41 PM ... ....

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AP / Itsuo Inouye
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France24
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AP / Moses Sawasawa
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The Guardian
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