Category: CLEAN AIR

Philadelphia volunteers measure heat and pollution in one-day blitz

Meeka Outlaw mounted a temperature sensor to the front passenger side window of her navy blue Nissan Altima just before daybreak Saturday, then attached an air pollution sensor to the rear passenger side, waiting for it to blink green and let her know the mission was a go. Concerned that the air pollution monitor didn’t […]

Delivering hundreds of new sustainable and affordable housing units across British Columbia

VANCOUVER, BC, July 29, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ – Everyone in Canada deserves a safe and affordable place to call home in a healthy and sustainable community. That is why the Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) are investing in communities across Canada to provide low-emission, energy efficient and affordable housing for residents. […]

Oregon Tech awarded a $1M federal grant for air quality research; faculty to create a new research c

Article by Ashley Van Essen, public information representative, Oregon Tech. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – An Oregon Institute of Technology faculty and student research team has been awarded a $1M federal grant to better understand the impact of poor air quality in Southern Oregon and to help hospitals prepare for capacity burdens that affect their operations. […]

Six bills to fight our dependence on oil

Wildfires, smog, high gas prices and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine all serve to remind us of the urgency of breaking our addiction to oil. CCA has been heavily involved in several bills in the California Legislature that would help, and they all need to pass by August 31. SB 1010 (Skinner) – Clean […]

The Senate’s Historic Opportunity to Lower Your Energy Bill

Buildings are where we live, work, go to school, and spend about 90 percent our time. Those same buildings are responsible for about 40 percent of carbon emissions in the United States – but the investments in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will help to substantially reduce emissions from our buildings while lowering energy […]

Israel sent 25,000 instant meals to Ukraine

Another batch of humanitarian aid in the form of 25,000 instant meals has been delivered to Ukraine from Israel. This is reported on the page of the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel at Facebook. «Israel sent another humanitarian shipment to Ukraine. This cargo was a continuation of the previous humanitarian supplies», – the report said. […]

John Fetterman’s evolution on climate change, fracking and the environment

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. The ad opens in Braddock, Pennsylvania with the kind of eerie industrial imagery that has long been synonymous with the decline of America’s Rust Belt: empty storefronts, abandoned buildings, For Sale signs, cracked asphalt. Other than the slow, dramatic piano […]

Voters decide if we can all breathe easier – Marin Independent Journal

Ana Gonzalez’s son, Jose, played a lot of baseball until the fifth grade, when he started gasping for breath whenever he ran. The next year, at age 12, Jose often was sick: Bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis landed him in the emergency room five times. Finally, doctors told Gonzalez that Jose’s lungs were weakening due […]

Houston County Schools unveils new career programs | Local News

Kenneth Woodham knows firsthand the challenge of finding good, qualified employees in the construction industry. He’s been in the industry since 1984 and has been self-employed in the field for the last 25 years. “The last 20 years I have not had one young man or woman come to me under the age of 40 […]

Attorneys General Find Way For EPA To Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions | JAM’N 107.5

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today led a coalition of 8 state and territorial Attorneys General in a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan encouraging the EPA to consider establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards for greenhouse gasses to address the climate crisis. The letter follows in the wake of West Virginia v. EPA, the recent U.S. […]