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The proportion of sunlight energy that a photovoltaic cell converts to electrical energy.

• Is using a wood fire to heat being Green?
  We look at whether using a wood fire to heat your home is being really green or not.

• Gas flaring created 389m tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds
  Rules to prevent ‘enormous waste’ of fuel are seen as weak and poorly enforced and firms have little incentive to stop
• Air pollution controls weaker for larger emitters, research finds
  Diesel generators allowed to emit 48 times more nitrogen oxides than gas boilers producing same amount of energy
• Institute for Policy Integrity: Power Plant Pollution is Clearly Significant
  I cannot let the claim that “The U.S. power sector’s annual emissions will cause thousands of U.S.. mortalities” go without a response.  If their claims have merit, then the change in any of the claimed morbidity and mortality health effects should...
• Cleaner Air, Sunshine & Temperatures
  Which all begs the question – what impact has cleaner air had on the rise in UK temperatures since the 1960s?
• ‘Putting profit over people’: big gas is waging war on a California clean air rule
  Coalition that includes SoCalGas, country’s largest gas utility, has launched fierce campaign against transition away from gas-fired appliances
• Wood-burning stoves to be allowed in new homes in England despite concerns
  Campaigners condemn decision amid growing evidence of harm to health and climate from heating appliances
• Map reveals residential wood-burning hotspots in England and Wales
  Researchers analyse energy performance certificate data to identify areas with potentially high particle pollution
• ‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears
  Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil
• The Climate Change−Air Quality−Public Health Fallacy
  [Our question] How can updating the Reference Manual to address junk science best be accomplished given such a massive input from entrenched academics in the past?
• EPA Proposes Yet Another Impossible Standard
  Unsafe at any level!  If the current administration’s Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] has its way, if any ambient-air dust is found inside an apartment building then that would require property owners to perform exceptionally expensive remediation.

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