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• 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.
• Pollutionwatch: Dangers of adding rubbish to home fires
  Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollution
• Knowing polluting impact of home fires could modify behaviour, study finds
  Voluntary regulations for burning wood and coal to heat homes could help tackle impact on air pollution
• Big polluters targeting esports industry with advertising deals, report reveals
  Oil firms, petrostates, airlines and carmakers ‘doubling down’ on sector that is popular with young people
• U.S. Urban Air Pollution Trends: Fossil Fuel Ecology
  But sound science, not outlier studies, is needed to inform public policy in light of achievable technological change.
• Targeting India’s most harmful power plants could slash mortality
  Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s electricity
• ‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds
  IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster
• Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors
  Use of enclosed combustors leaves regulators heavily reliant on oil and gas companies’ own flaring data
• China braced for rise in air pollution deaths
  Country needs to speed up environmental response to protect its ageing population, multinational study finds
• Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds
  Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

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