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Kenya's Ruto urges accountability for world polluters

Addis Ababa (AFP) - Kenyan President William Ruto called Sunday for rich countries to be held accountable for driving global warming and for a revamp of international financial institutions to better fight climate change.

AFP

From cradle to compost: the disruptors who want to make death greener

Startups rush to gain foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting

The Guardian - US

Welsh rivers pumped with sewage named among UK's most polluted

Six of the UK's top 20 most polluted are in Wales

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Negotiations on cap for big polluters heat up

The government is locked in negotiations with the Greens and cross bench as it attempts to pass new climate legislation that some argue doesn't go far enough.

AAP

New legislation to tackle plastic waste

New legislation hopes to cut down on the extreme amount of waste due to single-use plastic

Salon

All choked up on bad air

A white mask looked dusty and had turned grey as if it had been left in a dustbin when in fact it had been worn for just one day by a resident in Lampang.

Bangkok Post

Exposure to traffic pollution proven to impair brain function

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time the effect of exposure to traffic pollution on the brain's functioning.

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‘Not much time left’: Salt Lake City’s mayor on the Great Lake drying up

Former environmental activist Erin Mendenhall leads a fast-growing city threatened by toxic dust from the lake’s shrinking water levels

The Guardian - US

East London residents fear dangerous toxins spewing from ‘decade-long’ landfill fires

People living close to the former landfill site in Rainham are demanding action to end the near-constant fires, reports Barney Davis

Evening Standard

EPA moves to restore rule on mercury from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reaffirming the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants

The Independent UK

Dismay over ruling study not needed for new housing in Kinross despite concerns over sewage entering Loch Leven

The Scottish Government has overruled a council direction to developers they complete an Environmental Impact Assessment for a proposed 160-home development on land north of Davies Park

Daily Record

Dead fish found after slurry spill turns crystal clear river brown

A resident said it was around the fifth pollution incident along the Afon Dulas since he had lived in the area

Wales Online

France bans popular weedkiller S-metolachlor over water pollution

France’s food safety authority Anses has moved to ban S-metolachlor, a common herbicide used by cereal farmers, because of significant groundwater pollution. The product joins an increasingly growing list of chemicals no longer allowed in French agriculture.

Radio France Internationale

English hospitals hit by hundreds of sewage leaks in a year

There were over 450 sewage leaks in England during a 12 month period

Wales Online

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AFP

Amazon pollution: the stain on Ecuador's oil boom

Lago Agrio (Ecuador) (AFP) - Lago Agrio is where it began in February 1967: Ecuador's first oil well drilled by the US Texaco-Gulf consortium to ring in an era of black gold for the Ecuadoran Amazon.

Tribune News Service

Health concerns related to the East Palestine train derailment: What to know

Following the derailment of about 50 train cars in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a week ago and the subsequent controlled release of vinyl chloride into the air to prevent an explosion, residents as far away as Pittsburgh are wondering about potential health impacts.

France 24

‘Why are they being hush-hush?’ Ohio villagers anxious, enraged after toxic train spill

Residents of an Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a gymnasium demanding reassurances after toxic chemicals spilled and burned in a huge plume over their homes and businesses.

Evening Standard

Tories step up campaign against Ulez extension

We’ve all been there. Stuck in the wrong seat at a dinner party or cornered in someone’s kitchen by a friend of a friend, usually a man, who confidently informs you that advertising doesn’t work on them – they’re too smart. Ignoring the fact they’re dressed head to toe in…

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The Guardian - AU

Call for urgent overhaul of Australia’s monitoring of ‘astronomical’ plastic pollution

Australian Academy of Science points to over-reliance on volunteers and says more regular surveys needed

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan says he will take ‘no lectures’ from Boris Johnson over Ulez plans

Mr Johnson has urged people to stop the mayor’s ‘mad expansion plan’ which aims to boost London’s air quality.

Evening Standard

Electric Vehicle White Paper 2023

The Evening Standard roadmap for driving the electrification and decarbonisation of London’s transport

Evening Standard

Standard launches major report setting out road to e-car future

London has more than 11,000 public charging points — but needs more to fuel e-car revolution

Daily Mirror

UK's 20 most polluted rivers revealed in Top of the Poops league table - see list

Data crunched by Top of the Poops has shown how waterways across England and Wales were severely polluted in 2021 by water companies pumping out sewage for millions of hours

The Guardian - US

Great Salt Lake’s retreat poses a major fear: poisonous dust clouds

The largest salt lake in the western hemisphere risks ‘one of the worst environmental disasters’ as it faces the prospect of disappearing in just five years

Evening Standard

Vast artwork unveiled to mark decade since Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s air pollution linked death

Her mother is calling on MPs to back the ‘Ella’s Law’ bill, which would improve air quality

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