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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The human side of global warming Death, disease, and infection, thanks to our friend climate change	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Daniel J. Weiss and Robin Pam of the Center for American Progress have a new article on the health impacts of global warming. As they explain, 'Some of the most severe health effects linked to global warming include the following': More illness and death resulting from heat waves. Worsening air pollution causes more respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Vector-borne disease infections will rise. Changing food production and security may cause hunger. ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, health, World Health Organization (all these topics)

California waiver update	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Earlier this year I wrote about a new (EPA-sponsored) study showing that increased CO2 in the atmosphere is directly correlated with increased ozone, particulates, and carcinogens in the air. Since California suffers disproportionately from those traditional air pollutants, it follows that California does have "extraordinary and compelling conditions" in the face of climate change, and the EPA's decision to deny Cali's waiver was bogus. Now the author of th ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Now Where Did We Put That Respirator? For every 1 degree Celsius globe warms, some 21,000 people could die, says study		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:06 PM on 04 Jan 2008 For every 1 degree Celsius of anthropogenic global warming, some 21,000 people worldwide could die, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. According to computer modeling by researcher Mark Jacobson, increased air pollution due to rising carbon-dioxide levels will lead to more fatalities. "Th ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change impacts, health, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Smoke Signals		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Smoke Signals Activists fighting against climate change could learn much from the tactics of anti-smoking campaigners, argues Audrey Schulman in our Soapbox section. The tobacco war has been fought on many fronts, but perhaps the most important was the concerted publicity campaign that changed the images people associate with smoking. It's no longer romantic, no longer "cool." ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, green living, health (all these topics)

A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges Though the past three decades have seen substantial progress, concerted action is needed to prevent air pollution from adversely affecting the environment and human health now and in the future, reported the National Research Council of the National Academies, a nonpartisan scientific panel charter ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, ozone, politics, population (all these topics)

Monoxy, Oxy, Oxycuted		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Monoxy, Oxy, Oxycuted Lest you think environmental news is all gloom, all the time, here's a little pick-me-up: Thanks to the Clean Air Act, the U.S. has all but eradicated carbon monoxide pollution, one of the most hazardous air emissions, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences reported yesterday. In 1971, when the act set federal standards for carbon monoxide, 90 percent of monitored areas vio ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, National Academy of Sciences (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Coughing in a Winter Wonderland		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coughing in a Winter Wonderland Be glad you're not on the planning committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. First there was terrorism to worry about; now there's the weather. Salt Lake's squeaky-clean image could suffer a blow if the world gets a glimpse of the woeful air pollution that plagues the city in the winter. Snow in Salt Lake City usually means a temperature inversion, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Give a Honk, Don't Pollute		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Give a Honk, Don't Pollute On top of warming up the earth, pollution from burning fossil fuels is killing thousands of people a year, according to a study published in the journal Science. For starters, Devra Lee Davis of Carnegie Mellon University and four coauthors found that if Mexico City, New York, Sao Paulo, and Santiago employed technologies that now exist to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 64,000 premature deaths an ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health (all these topics)

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