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Paris Bans All Pre-1997 Cars During Weekdays to Fight Pollution
2016-07-05 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Cars During Weekdays to Fight Pollution Radovan Bahna Commuter traffic in Paris. Starting this month, Paris is banning all cars built before 1997 from driving within city limits Monday through Friday in an effort to lower air pollution levels. Paris has been struggling with smog for years and its pollution levels have briefly topped those in Beijing. Similar to Mexico City and New Delhi, Paris banned even- and odd-numbered license plates on alternating days to fight smog earlier this year. It...
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Pollution Still Killing Thousands, 60 Years Since Clean Air Act
2016-07-05 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Clean Air Act, introduced 60 years ago, still does not prevent the death of thousands of people in Scotland. In a decisive and successful response to the Great Smog of 1952 that killed 12,000 people, the Clean Air Act of 1956 introduced controls on industrial pollution and the burning of coal. However, since the 1950s traffic levels have sky-rocketed and air pollution now claims over 2,500 lives in Scotland annually. Friends of the Earth Scotlands Air Pollution Campaigner, Emilia Hanna,...
New Clean Air Act needed to tackle air pollution
2016-07-05 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: ClientEarth has today urged politicians to back calls for new Clean Air Act legislation to address the UK`s toxic air pollution levels. ClientEarth, the environmental lawyers who are taking the UK government back to court over its failure to deal with air pollution, have outlined details of the fresh legislation they believe is necessary. Proposals for a new Act come on the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the original Clean Air Act in 1956 and follow the referendum on 23rd June in which...
Pollution guidelines leave a blind spot for assessing the impact of coal and oil
2016-07-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Coals impact on the Great Barrier Reef by causing climate change is one of the reasons why environmentalists oppose the development of coal fields and exports in Queensland. But fossil fuels could have a more direct impact on the reef and the waters around it, through chemicals produced during their production and distribution. When coal dust is released in the marine environment it can damage marine ecosystems. Coal contains a number of different chemicals, but it is polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons...
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Paris Bans All Cars Made Before 1997 to Reduce Pollution
2016-07-04 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Anyone driving an older car or an old motorcycle will no longer be welcome in the streets of the French capital on weekdays. The ban, which aims to reduce air pollution in the City of Light, came into effect Friday and makes Paris the first city in the country to officially establish a "limited traffic area." From now on, personal-use vehicles built before January 1, 1997 and utility vehicles built before October 1, 1997 will have to be off the roads from 8:00am to 8:00pm, Monday to Friday....
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