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AddressPollution.org @AddresPollution

addresspollution.org was the free public service giving accurate air pollution data to the people that @cleanairfund would not fund. V sadly we r now offline.

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Sadly addresspollution.org is now offline.

AddressPollution.org@AddresPollution
13 Feb 2024
Announcement 🧵 Pls RT: We’re sorry to announce that addresspollution.org AP will be shutting down after 4 years of free public service. @Cleanairfund continue to offer no funding to keep AP alive despite the ongoing impact its had on public awareness of #airpollution 1/1
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Announcement 🧵 Pls RT: We’re sorry to announce that addresspollution.org AP will be shutting down after 4 years of free public service. @Cleanairfund continue to offer no funding to keep AP alive despite the ongoing impact its had on public awareness of #airpollution 1/1
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If like us you are perplexed as to why the UK’s major funder of #cleanair projects @CleanAirFund will not offer any £ support to keep a free service alive that continues to have this much impact on awareness & understanding then please RT & tag any orgs that might help. /9
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With the money that @cleanairfund has been awarding the Conservative Party’s Environment Network each year @COPInterest could have run another 3 national #airpollution awareness campaigns of similar impact, whilst keeping our free service alive.More on this insanity to come 10/10
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"Being rough and hairy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be." 😮 Translation: if you’re trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees with smaller leaves. 😁 #AirPollution #CleanAir envirotecmagazine.com/2024/0…

Air pollution and trees study overturns "rough and hairy is good" dictum | Envirotec

Surrey researcher Yendle Barwise assembling one of the pollution monitors.   If you're trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees ...

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“The most effective way to reduce community exposure to smoke is by not permitting new wood-heater installations & phasing out existing units." New #Pollutionwatch from @DrGaryFuller comes on the back of this week's first-ever #CleanAirNight. #CleanAir theguardian.com/environment/…

Domestic wood burners having a deadly impact in outside areas

Deaths due to wood-burning stoves are comparable to those of ‘black summer’ bushfires, says Australian study

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We should all have the right to #CleanAir. Good luck to @EllaRobertaFdn and team. #AirPollution #Health theguardian.com/environment/…

Mother of girl whose death was linked to air pollution sues UK government

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah opens claim against environment, health and transport departments in pursuit of ‘right to clean air’

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Wood burning is harming children's #Health. "For those of us who work in child health, it's a particular concern because children breathe faster...they're taking in more of any pollutant that's in the air, per kilo of their body weight." #CleanAirNight heraldscotland.com/news/2407…

Middle class fashion for wood burning stoves 'is damaging children's health'

The middle class fashion for installing wood-burning stoves as an alternative home heating source is creating harmful air pollution that damages…

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It's #CleanAirNight tonight! Can you take a night off burning if you have an alternative source of heating? Share a message with friends, family or school about the #AirPollution impacts of wood burning? @globalactplan's clean air hub has more info. cleanairhub.org.uk/clean-air…

Clean Air Night

Did you know that lighting fires in our homes is the largest source of harmful small particle air pollution in the UK? If you didn’t, you’re not alone! Wood burning harms our health and the environ...

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Exciting to see these changes happening in the City of London. #AirPollution #Health bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Radical Changes Coming to the City of London

A quiet revolution in the financial district will rip out roadways and install wider sidewalks, new bike lanes and more public squares and open spaces friendly to pedestrians.

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What price #AirPollution? Air pollution causes or contributes to respiratory diseases, cancer, dementia, strokes, heart disease, and far more besides. Find out the pollution levels at your address >>> addresspollution.org #AddressPollution
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Do large #SUVs belong in cities? On 4th Feb Parisians will vote on whether higher parking charges should be introduced for heavy, polluting vehicles. New polling by @cities_clean & @respireasso shows 61% of people think SUVs are bad for #AirQuality. cleancitiescampaign.org/new-…

Parisians in favour of higher parking fees for big vehicles

Our new polling shows that 61% of people support plans to increase parking charges

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It's one week until #CleanAirNight. What are you doing to support it? Wood burning emits more particle pollution than road transport in the UK and many are unaware of the #AirPollution or #Health impact. actionforcleanair.org.uk/cam…
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