Ultrafine particles linked to over 1,000 deaths per year in Canada’s two largest cities. Study points to an urgent public-health need for tighter environmental regulations | Airborne Nanoparticle Concentrations Are Associated with Increased Mortality Risk in Canada’s Two Largest Cities
Read Full Article
#AirPollution #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalRegulations #Nanoparticles #MortalityRisk
Read Full Article
#AirPollution #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalRegulations #Nanoparticles #MortalityRisk
McGill
Ultrafine particles linked to over 1,000 deaths per year in Canada’s two largest cities
A first-of-its kind study conducted in Canada’s two largest cities by McGill-led researchers has linked about 1,100 premature deaths per year to an unregulated air pollutant. Ultrafine particles
🙈2😢1
The shale gas revolution explains the shift to Republican candidates in coal areas that used to vote Democratic. Cheap gas displaced coal-fired power generation, causing job losses in the coal industry. These job losses were in turn blamed on Democrats' environmental regulations.
Read Full Article
#ShaleGasRevolution #CoalJobLosses #RepublicanShift #EnergyPolitics #EnvironmentalRegulations
Read Full Article
#ShaleGasRevolution #CoalJobLosses #RepublicanShift #EnergyPolitics #EnvironmentalRegulations
The Journal of Politics
Sources of Partisan Change: Evidence from the Shale Gas Shock in American Coal Country | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 2
What explains the shift to Republicans in places that historically voted for Democrats? This article tests a new explanation for part of this reversal. The shale gas revolution displaced coal, which intensified the salience of national environmental regulations…
🤮2🥱2
Anti-pollution regulations for diesel-powered ships in 2020 caused lightning strikes to quickly drop by half over two Asian shipping lanes, according to a study of 12 years of high-resolution global lightning strike data, demonstrating the link between particulate pollution and lightning storms
Read Full Article
#AntiPollution #DieselShips #LightningStrikes #EnvironmentalRegulations #CleanAir
Read Full Article
#AntiPollution #DieselShips #LightningStrikes #EnvironmentalRegulations #CleanAir
The Conversation
The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped
An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have human-created emissions influenced thunderstorms?
⚡2👏1
Banning lead in gasoline worked. Analysis of 100 years of hair samples shows lead levels were ~100× higher before environmental regulations. Removing lead from fuel and paint dramatically reduced human exposure, protecting brain development and public health.
Read Full Article
#LeadFreeGasoline #PublicHealthMatters #BrainDevelopment #EnvironmentalRegulations #HairAnalysisHistory
Read Full Article
#LeadFreeGasoline #PublicHealthMatters #BrainDevelopment #EnvironmentalRegulations #HairAnalysisHistory
PNAS
Lead in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection…
Lead (Pb) is well known to be toxic to humans. We use archived hair from individuals living along the Wasatch Front in Utah to evaluate changes in ...
👍3