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Challenge leaves us all out of breath
South China Morning Post – 19 Jan 2012 New emissions targets set for 2014 allow 18 days of levels above the maximum for nitrogen dioxide; the figure for last year was 241 days, shock study shows The immensity of the challenge facing environmental officials responsible for cleaning the city’s air has been exposed by a [...]
Javelin Park Investigation – UK plant filters ‘let particulates through’
10:20am Wednesday 4th January 2012 By Chris Warne STRICT regulations forbidding the emission of tiny particles from incinerators are needed to safeguard public health, warns Dr Dick van Steenis. Ultrafine PM1 and PM2.5 particulates which are released when waste is incinerated are causing premature infant and child deaths, he believes. Dr van Steenis also claims these particles, which [...]
EU adopts stricter air quality rules
http://www.euractiv.com/climate-environment/eu-adopts-stricter-air-quality-rules-news-219762 The EU Council of Ministers has endorsed a new directive setting binding EU-wide limits for fine particle emissions, which cause respiratory diseases thought to reduce European life expectancy by up to three years. The new EU air quality directive was approved on 14 April 2008, following an agreement reached by the Council and the Parliament [...]
Lethal fine particulate matter emissions need urgent regulation – not prevarication
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Residents cry foul at city’s blue skies boast
South China Morning Post – 19 Dec. 2011 Microbloggers liken Beijing authorities’ claims of decreasing air pollution to an April fool’s day joke Beijing’s environmental authorities said yesterday that air quality in the capital city in 2011 was better than during the Olympics year of 2008, and that they had already met their target of [...]
Fine particle health risks calculated for roughly city size areas in California
Dec. 9, 2011 http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/fine-particle-health-risks-calculated.html Three new studies released today by the California Air Resources Board reveal that exposure to airborne fine-particulate matter significantly elevates the risk for premature deaths from heart disease in older adults and elevates incidence of strokes among post-menopausal women. Heart disease is the number one killer in California and is responsible [...]
Xiamen to extend monitoring areas of PM2.5 to the whole city in 2012
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news22714.html The grey smog that blanketed most cities in the north and south China in the past few days has brought the PM2.5 to the spotlight, which is mainly to be blamed for the fog that not only disrupted traffic, but also decreased air quality. PM 2.5, or particulate matter under 2.5 micrometers in size, [...]
EPA sets air quality rules
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/print/2011/12/15/2003520788 TIGHT CONTROL:：The new standards for air quality are the strictest in the world and aim to reduce the amount of small particle pollution that causes heart and lung disease By Lee I-chia / Staff Reporter Thu, Dec 15, 2011 – Page 2 The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) yesterday announced the strictest standards in the world [...]
Taiwan enacts new regulations on air particulates
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aSOC&ID=201112140013 Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) New regulations on the allowable amount of fine particles in the air will help the nation’s air quality meet stricter standards within the next decade, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said Wednesday. The EPA said the permitted amount of particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers, or PM2.5, will be limited to [...]