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The Dangerous Link Between Lead Emissions And Crime Rates
From 1960 to the early 1990s, the rate of violent crime in the U.S. rocketed from 150 to 750 per 100,000 people. Then it dropped just as precipitously, falling below 450 per 100,000 by 2009. A host of...
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Deadly Air Pollution In Tehran Makes Breathing A Health Risk
Air pollution has left close to 5,000 dead since March 2011, according to Iranian health officials, as pollution forced the city to close completely over the weekend. Iran’s state radio claimed going...
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Keep Pollution Cops On The Beat: Congress Proposes Stripping $100 Million...
by Peter Iwanowicz The Clean Air Act is one of the most successful public health laws we have. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) assessment of the Act finds that in 2010 alone, the...
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What The U.S. Can Learn From China’s Off-The-Charts Air Pollution
CNN's Steven Jiang stands in front of the Beijing skyline Beijing has tolerated abysmal air pollution for years as the price for China’s rapid economic development. But on January 12, the city’s air...
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History Shows U.S. Can Tackle Pollution And Climate Change
President Nixon signs the 1969 National Environmental Protection Act By Arpita Bhattacharyya, Center for American Progress President Obama’s strong remarks on climate change yesterday left the...
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Doctors Pressure Utah Governor To Declare Public Health Emergency Over...
Dozens of doctors, as part of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, want lawmakers to take immediate action to address the state’s deadly air pollution problem. The group delivered a letter,...
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Chart Of The Week: China’s Pollution Crisis Is Worse Than Living In A Smoking...
So it turns out that burning nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined is not good for public health. “Beijing’s daily peak and average concentrations of PM2.5, the airborne particulate...
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How Supply Side Energy is Lowering Rates for Americans
Story by Noah Botwinick, contributing author for the PeoplePlanetProfitBlog.com. Brief History of Supply Side Energy in America: During the early 20th century in the US, the market of energy suppliers...
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Air Pollution Linked To Lower Birth Weights, Higher Risk Of Infant Mortality
According to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, there is a small — but steady — link between local air pollution levels and lower infant birth weight. While there...
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Another Study Names Oil And Gas As Ozone Culprit
Oil drilling in Utah's Uinta Basin. (Photo: S. Winterton, Deseret Morning News) By Tom Kenworthy Extensive oil and gas drilling in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah produces the great majority of...
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Beef Production and Greenhouse Gases
Story by Noah Botwinick, contributing author for the PeoplePlanetProfitBlog.com. Beef Production and Greenhouse Gas...
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Video: The Price OF Carbon Requires A Price ON Carbon
This video produced by the Climate Reality Project featuring Reggie Watts demonstrates the argument that because carbon pollution costs us money, the world should put a price on carbon. It’s important...
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Global Ponzi Scheme: We’re Taking $7.3 Trillion A Year In Natural Capital...
Last week, David Roberts over at Grist flagged a report carried out by the environmental consultant group Trucost, at the behest of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity over at the United...
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Why Air Pollution Is Bad For Your Kidneys
Long-term exposure to traffic pollution could be linked to kidney damage, according to a new study. Scientists looked at the kidney function of 1,100 stroke patients at a hospital in Boston, Mass.,...
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Over 100 ‘Clean Air Ambassadors’ Call On Congress To Clean Up Its Act
A coalition of over 100 “clean air ambassadors” — including nurses, physicians, clergy members, labor leaders, tribal leaders, and social justice activists — descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to call...
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Bombshell: China May Be Close To Implementing A Cap On Carbon Pollution
Credit: Associated Press China is taking steps to tackle its huge carbon output. Today, the country announced the details of its first carbon trading program, which will begin in the city of Shenzhen...
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Super Pollutants 101: How To Cut Climate Impacts And Safeguard Public Health
Credit: AP/David J. PhillipEndnotes and citations are available in the PDF version of this issue brief. Super pollutants are one of the most underappreciated but dangerous contributors to climate...
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June 18 News: Autism Is Twice As Likely In Children Living Near High Air...
The largest study to date that examines the link between air pollution and autism found that women living in high-pollution areas were twice as likely to have a child with the disorder. [Bloomberg]...
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Air Pollution Kills Over Two And A Half Million People Every Year
(Credit: Shutterstock) Each year, 2.1 million people around the world die because of fine particulate pollutants in the air, and another 470,000 die due to ozone pollution, according to a new study by...
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China Plans To Spend $275 Billion To Combat Pollution Crisis
(Credit: AP) China’s air pollution levels have reached dire levels, even breaking the upper limits of the Air Quality Index earlier this year. In a sign the government is serious about tackling this...
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