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  • Can incinerators solve Vietnam's waste crisis?

    Vietnam is building waste-to-energy plants, which burn household waste and generate energy during the process, to remedy its over-full landfills and eventually provide some relief from related air and groundwater pollution.

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  • From Scooters to Microtransit, Cities Are Embracing Alternatives to Short Car Trips

    Getting to public transportation can be difficult for commuters. Microtransit is easing that burden and reducing emissions by replacing individual car trips. Partnerships between cities and companies ensure shared, on-demand scooters, bikes, or vehicles are available to help people reach public transportation.

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

    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!

    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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  • Kansas City saved energy by switching to LED streetlights. But it has bigger climate issues

    Kansas City has converted nearly 100,000 of its streetlights to LED bulbs over the last several years. The swap saves on energy, meaning less power is needed from the local coal-fired power plant.

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

    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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  • A Firewood Lot is Helping This Timber Town Recover

    A locally-owned wood lot in Oakridge, Oregon, collects piles of debris from the surrounding forest that could become fuel for wildfires and turns it into firewood for the community. Alongside wildfire mitigation, the business reduces the air pollution residents create when their only option is to burn wet wood for heat.

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

    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

    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

    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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