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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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People march, sign petitions, meet with their elected officials, plant trees, clean up their towns and roads. Faith leaders connect Earth Day with protecting the human race, biodiversity and the planet that we all live on. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. In CY2023, a record 15,26,433 or 1.52

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. Switzerland’s top ranking reflects strong performance across most issues, especially air quality and climate protection. Source: EPI.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). INTRODUCTION. Overview of RGGI.

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