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20 Apr 2018 |
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The End of Coal: Ontario’s coal phase-out
Ontario has successfully implemented its policy to put an end to coal use by the end of 2014. The coal phaseout in Ontario has become “the single largest GHG reduction measure in North America”. Since 2007, when coal accounted for about 25 per cent of its electricity generation, the province has reduced its greenhouse gas […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change
Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Latino Commnities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry dumps 9 million tons of methane and toxic pollutants like benzene into our air each year. Methane is a greenhouse gas 87 times more potent than carbon dioxide at driving climate change and the oil and gas industry is now the largest source of methane in the U.S. But methane […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Pollution is Yet Another Issue that Disproportionately Impacts Minority and Low-Income Communities
First responders are trained to give people immediate life-saving care and get people out of dangerous situations. When a patient is suffering an asthma attack that’s caused by air pollution in their community, we can administer drugs to calm the attack, but we know it is only a temporary fix. To reduce the risk over […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources
Everyone’s heard of the carbon footprint of different energy sources, the largest footprint belonging to coal because every kWhr of energy produced emits about 900 grams of CO2. Wind and nuclear have the smallest carbon footprint with only 15 g emitted per kWhr, and that mainly from concrete production, construction, and mining ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Out with the coal, in with the new
This report illustrates the environmental and health benefits of a national accelerated phase-out of coal-fired electricity by 2030. Our analysis is derived from the federal government’s Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement (RIAS) made available following the development of its existing regulation for coal-fired power in 2012.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health Highlights: Pembina Institute Report- Out with the Coal, In with the New
The Pembina Institute, in collaboration with ten health organizations and four environmental organizations, has released a new report, Out with the coal, in with the new: National benefits of an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power, which estimates the air pollution-related health benefits associated with a Canada-wide phase-out ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Distributed solar energy can improve public health in Arizona
We have a clean air problem in Arizona. Families are breathing polluted air that causes asthma, chronic lung and heart disease. We have the tools to fix this problem. Arizona has the greatest U.S. potential for solar energy, our natural resource that is abundant, clean, and cheaper every day.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Only the Beginning: A Literature Review of the Co-Benefits of Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled
While state goals for reducing GHG emissions have been one motivation for the shift to VMT measures, reductions in VMT produce many other potential benefits, referred to as “cobenefits,” such as reductions in other air pollutant emissions, water pollution, wildlife mortality, and traffic congestion, as well as improvements in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Latino Communities at Risk: The Impact of Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry
Many Latino communities face serious health risks caused by air pollution. What’s more, higher poverty levels and relatively lower rates of health insurance increase these health threats from air pollution translating into a bigger health burden on Latino communities. This report for the first time quantifies the elevated health ...