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david farnsworth
DFarnsworthVT
In the shadow of Trump administration’s announcement that COVID may kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans, new research suggests that this is more likely to happen to Americans already breathing
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Green Party Women
GreenPartyWomen
.@rebekkapopovic and @DrLizaSelley kick off our air pollution event by discussing their work -based on research from across the world- on the link between air pollution & COVID19 in the
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Vimlendu Jha
vimlendu
Electric Vehicles are net net great for the environment, only in countries that get their energy from clean sources, renewable sources. In India, especially in Delhi, just shifting pollution from
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Barney Ronay
barneyronay
Seems clear this crisis has been badly handled, with clear failings that will cause harm to the pollution. I know we live in a democracy with fixed term parliaments, and
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Gwent Angling Society
AnglingGwent
A thread summarising a decade of agri-pollution incidents in Wales:Between September 2009 & February 2016 there were 1,071 agri-pollution events in Wales 87 of them resulted in fish kills 1/8
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space for gosforth
space4gosforth
We’ve seen claims that air pollution on Gosforth High Street is being made worse by the social distancing lay out. This doesn’t appear to be true.https://twitter.com/airgosforthhist/status/1385476214492651521 Actually recent measurement
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Adam Alton
altonpowers
In London, fewer deaths have been caused by Covid-19 than are lost due to air pollution each year.Yup.1/ First, fact checking!..As of 18/09/20, total hospital Covid deaths in London was
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Mzala
Mzzala_
Today the neighbor started at 9:30am. Since then the volume has been increasing the vibration is high. When it was raining they never played the radio because they had to
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Anup
AnupSubedee
3 issues that do not portend well for those who are going to get the more severe forms of COVID-19 in this surge, compared to the last one:1. the new
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meg Ⓥ
legggomegggo
hey yall i know new phone releases are cool but i am here to remind you that e-waste is a huge polluter. most e-waste is taken illegally to developing countries
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David Roberts
drvolts
Pollution policy is about power, money, and race, just like everything else in America.https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/6/16/21290591/trump-black-lives-epa-air-pollution-covid-19 One point I try to make in this piece (and hav
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Hannah Daly
HannahEDaly
We analyzed the impact of the C19 restrictions on Ireland's emissions in transport, heat and electricity, and air pollution @james_glynn https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/coronavirus-lockdown-leads-to-50-drop-in-car-pollution-
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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
ashishkjha
Thread 1/nThere are two pieces of data out today that are very troubling and one may be related to the other.The first is that African-Americans are both getting COVID19 at
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Matthew Tresaugue
mtresaugue
New @NPR investigation finds that residents of Houston did not breathe significantly cleaner air during the lockdown, despite a 40% reduction in local traffic.https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/19/854760999/traffic-is-way-dow
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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe
KHayhoe
Last week I cited older research showing that air pollution nearly doubled the risk of dying from SARS, but now the #COVID19 connection is in: "A small increase in long-term
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NBC News
NBCNews
Coronavirus lockdowns have sent pollution plummeting, but environmentalists worry about what comes next as the resulting decline in carbon emissions could easily be reversed by efforts to quickly ramp up
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