Air Pollution

US Department of Justice claims NAACP lawsuit threatens ‘national, economic, and energy security’. The United States government has intervened on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI in an environmental dispute over a $20bn data centre in Tennessee, claiming that efforts to block a related power project threaten national security. In…

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi. The NAACP and other groups say Musk's xAI subsidiary failed to get a…

Africa, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Featured, Headlines, Health, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Health Participants at a Climate and Health Capacity Building Workshop. Credit: Friday Phiri BONN, Jun 12 2026 (IPS) - Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it faces some of…

Image of the Day for June 11, 2026 The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026. Jun 11, 2026 View more Images of the Day: More than 35 million people live along the New York–Washington corridor…

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As extreme heat and air pollution become more common, researchers are developing new ways to track how these environmental exposures affect people in real time. Credit: Stock A pilot study found that wearable devices and GPS tracking can reveal real-time health effects from heat and air pollution, opening new possibilities…

After eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit, rolling back fuel economy standards and blocking California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules, the Trump administration is now citing slowed electric vehicle growth as its rationale for loosening automobile air pollution standards. In a rulemaking proposal released Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced…

Rukmini Manjare sits inside her home in Bubnal village. She says she has learned to sense when air pollution rises in her village, often without checking official air-quality readings. (Image credit: Sanket Jain) MAHARASHTRA, INDIA — In clinics and labs around the world, scientists are uncovering a consequence of air…

Nearly half the nation’s children live in places with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. That’s 33.5 million children — 46 percent of the country’s kids — living in areas with failing grades for at least one measure of air…