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• Pollutionwatch: air quality benefits of lockdown continue

  18-06-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  There was an average decrease of 31% in nitrogen dioxide levels on London’s roadsThe start of the UK lockdown brought news of reduced air pollution. Did it last?Measurements from London show that initial improvements in nitrogen dioxide from traffic continued into April and May. Compared with the first 11 weeks of 2020 before lockdown, there was an average decrease of 31% on the capital’s roads. Greatest reductions were in central and inner London and followed improvements from the U
  
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• Trump administration will not regulate rocket fuel chemical in drinking water

  18-06-2020 20:35 via theguardian.com
  
  EPA claims federal government, states and public water systems have already taken steps to reduce perchlorate levelsUS environmental regulators have decided they will not put restrictions on perchlorate – a rocket fuel ingredient known to harm fetal brain development – in drinking water.The Environmental Protection Agency argued that the federal government, states and public water systems have already taken proactive steps to reduce perchlorate levels. Continue reading...
  
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• Fashion footprint: Farfetch's new tool to highlight the environmental impact of clothing

  18-06-2020 18:23
  
  Luxury fashion platform Farfetch has launched a new tool helping online customers to choose products with lower environmental impacts, including secondhand goods and those made using innovative renewable materials.
  
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• Hasbro launches UK-wide recycling scheme for plastic toys

  18-06-2020 13:46
  
  Toy giant Hasbro has launched a UK-wide take-back and recycling scheme for toys, as part of its partnership with recycling firm TerraCycle.
  
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• Environmental justice means racial justice, say activists

  18-06-2020 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Coronavirus has emphasised health, social, economic and environmental inequalities facing BAME peopleTackling systemic racism is fundamental to achieving environmental and climate justice, according to leading activists, as Covid-19 disparities and the global uprising against police brutality lay bare the ramifications of racial inequalities in every sphere of life.A wave of protests demanding an end to racist policing have taken place in towns and cities across the world amid mounting evidence
  
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• World's biggest liquid air battery under construction in Greater Manchester

  18-06-2020 13:06
  
  Construction on the world's largest liquid air battery is beginning in Trafford this week, after the project secured a £10m grant from the UK Government.
  
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• John Lewis Partnership to build bio-methane refuelling station at UK HQ

  18-06-2020 12:23
  
  Building on a pledge convert its 600-strong fleet of diesel delivery trucks to be powered by bio-methane by 2028, John Lewis Partnership is building a biomethane filling station at its Bracknell headquarters.
  
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• IEA unveils major new green Covid-19 recovery roadmap

  18-06-2020 11:10
  
  The International Energy Agency (IEA) has set out a string of policy recommendations green Covid-19 recovery packages, which, if followed in full, could slash annual energy-related emissions by billions of tonnes, while creating jobs, improving air pollution and boosting GDP.
  
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• New evidence of virus risks from wildlife trade

  18-06-2020 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Animals sold in markets and restaurants in Southeast Asia harbour multiple coronaviruses, study shows.
  
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• Climate emission killer: construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery

  18-06-2020 09:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: project will store renewable energy and reduce climate-heating emissions Construction is beginning on the world’s largest liquid air battery, which will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.The project near Manchester, UK, will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it. When demand is higher, the liquid air is released back into a gas, powering a turbine that puts the green energy back into the grid. Contin
  
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• 'Worst outbreak ever': Nearly a million pigs culled in Nigeria due to swine fever

  18-06-2020 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Farmers report devastating losses as poor control measures are blamed for spread of infection across the countryHundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an explosion of African swine fever (ASF). The outbreak began around Lagos and parts of neighbouring Ogun state earlier this year, pig farmers say, but has now spread to many other parts of the country.In the absence of official data, farmers who spoke to the Guardian estimated that nearly a million pigs
  
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• World’s biggest liquid air battery starts construction in UK

  18-06-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: project will store renewable energy and reduce climate-heating emissionsConstruction is beginning on the world’s largest liquid air battery, which will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.The project near Manchester, UK, will use spare green energy to compress air into a liquid and store it. When demand is higher, the liquid air is released back into a gas, powering a turbine that puts the green energy back into the grid. Continu
  
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• Lib Dems unveil £150bn green coronavirus recovery plan

  18-06-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ed Davey says there is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to reshape economyThe Liberal Democrats have unveiled proposals to invest £150bn in green projects over three years as a way to transform the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the government must act soon on the issue.Ed Davey, the party’s interim leader, said there was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to both tackle potential mass unemployment due to Covid-19, and reshape
  
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• World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert

  18-06-2020 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  International Energy Agency chief warns of need to prevent post-lockdown surge in emissionsThe world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned.“This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the Intern
  
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• Coronavirus: What is the true death toll of the pandemic?

  18-06-2020 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Far more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than official Covid-19 data can account for
  
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