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  • London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids

    Syris Valentine

    September 17, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    After a clean air zone was created in London, where vehicles have to pay a daily fee to enter unless they meet strict pollution standards, more young students in the area began walking and biking to school.

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  • All Aboard the Electric School Bus!

    Hannah Wallace

    September 16, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program is funding zero-emission, electric school buses and low-emission buses for schools looking to make the switch from diesel.

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  • Researchers Turned to Churches To Study St. Louis Air Quality

    Rebecca Randall

    August 22, 2024 |

    Sojourners |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    A St. Louis faith and advocacy organization, Metropolitan Congregations United, helped scientists bring together a group of churches willing to install air quality monitors to gather data on pollution and call for solutions.

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  • Fighting Global Warming, One Abandoned Oil Well at a Time

    Michaela Haas

    August 05, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    Curtis Shuck started the nonprofit The Well Done Foundation with a mission to plug as many abandoned oil wells as possible. Since then, he’s worked with communities, landowners, regulatory agencies, and activists to plug 45 wells, stopping the release of methane and other pollutants into the air and local environments.

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  • Krakow Can Breathe Again

    Jan Zabka

    April 15, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Poland, Krakow

    An activist organization in Poland, Krakow Smog Alarm, teaches people about poor air quality in their city and helps them organize together to lobby their local governments for effective clean air measures.

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  • Dairy Digesters Promise to Cut Methane — Unfortunately, They Might Be an Inefficient Band-Aid

    Marlena Williams

    March 07, 2024 |

    Sentient |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Dairy digesters are oxygen-free systems that break down organic material like manure and turn methane into “biogas,” which can be used to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuel. Once heralded and championed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture as one of the most cost-effective emissions reductions programs, new research shows the real cost is up to 17-times more than what state and industry officials have publicly claimed.

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  • Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

    Rita Utari

    January 18, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Ketapang

    An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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  • Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding

    Elizabeth McGowan

    January 11, 2024 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Schools in Virginia are switching from diesel to electric buses to reduce their emissions and impact on local air quality. With no access to state funding, the schools are buying buses outright, renting them, and partnering with nonprofit organizations that assist them in finding funding.

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  • "We Are Suffering": Despite Steps Taken, Gas Flaring Still Threatens Livelihoods in Niger Delta

    Ekpali Saint

    November 09, 2023 |

    The Xylom |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogboinbiri, Bayelsa

    Gas flaring penalties have done little to prevent the practice in Bayelsa, Nigeria, so locals are calling for changes like diverting it to produce usable energy and creating strong policies to regulate it.

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  • Marvin Hayes Is Spreading ‘Compost Fever' in Baltimore. He Thinks it Might Save the City.

    Aman Azhar

    August 21, 2023 |

    Capital B (National) |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The grassroots Baltimore Compost Collective is pushing to end the city’s reliance on waste-to-energy incineration and combat climate change by teaching locals the importance of composting, and how it can improve the polluted urban soil to help them grow food.

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