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70th anniversary of the #GreatSmog is 5-9 December 2022. We'll be tweeting updates and providing more detail here: cleanair.london/health/great-s… Image
#GreatSmog thread 2/... | @metoffice's #DailyWeatherReport for November 1952 shows temperatures and sunshine dropping steadily and rainfall increasing through the month at the #KewObservatory. Find the archives here HT @metofficece digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_86058de1-8d… ImageImageImageImage
#GreatSmog 3/n... | @metoffice's #DailyWeatherReport records for three months period included a useful introduction, definition of terms and a map showing forecast districts and stations. Here's #DWR_1952_11 i.e. 1952...month 11...November 1952 ImageImageImage
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#EllasLaw | Second reading of @GreenJennyJones's #CleanAirHRBill in @UKHouseofLords from 10am Friday 8 July HT @EllaRobertaFdn. It's about the #HumanRight to #CleanAir and meeting new @WHO guidelines asap. Follow this thread for live updates. Details here: cleanair.london/ellaslaw/
#EllasLaw | Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi-Debrah died tragically - aged nine - on 15 February 2013. #AirPollution was listed as one of the medical causes of death after a long campaign by her mother @EllaRobertaFdn won a second inquest cleanair.london/hot-topics/ell…
#EllasLaw | Coroner's 'Report to Prevent Future Deaths' said:

"@WHO guidelines should be seen as minimum requirements. Legally binding targets based on @WHO guidelines would reduce the number of deaths from air pollution in the UK"

@GreenJennyJones' #CleanAirHRBill does it!
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With @JoeBiden as President & a GOP Senate, many ppl are asking: What executive action can Biden take to fight the #ClimateCrisis?

We @CBD_Climate have a plan for that: the #ClimatePresident Action Plan! Here are the TOP 10 Actions Biden can take without Congress (a thread):
1/ Without Congress, Biden can declare a climate emergency under the Nat'l Emergencies Act. This w/d allow him to reinstate crude oil export ban and quickly promote rapid clean energy development. #ClimatePresident
2/ Without Congress, Biden can 1) direct @Interior to halt all fossil fuel lease sales & permits, ban #fracking, & phase out extraction on fed land/water under existing law; and 2) direct @EPA to issue strong pollution rules for FF sector. #ClimatePresident
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: COMBATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (Part 4)
Only one party recognizes the urgent existential crisis facing our planet. Only one party believes in science and solutions. 1/21
#Democrats affirm California’s statutory authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own emissions standards for cars and trucks. 2/21
#DemPartyPlatform #CleanAirAct #CA
#Democrats will immediately convene California and other states with labor, auto industry, and environmental leaders to inform ambitious executive actions 3/21 #DemPartyPlatform #ClimateAction #ClimateVoter
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EPA’s proposal to maintain ozone pollution at its current level violates the core purpose of these standards under the #CleanAirAct: to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety. act.ucsusa.org/2XY2V0P
TODAY is the last day to register to present oral comments at the Proposed Ozone NAAQS Hearing on August 31 and September 1. You can register here: epa.gov/ground-level-o…
If you would like to listen to the public hearing but do not plan to testify, you can register here: epa.gov/ground-level-o…
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The Trump admin’s EPA has launched a new attack on the #CleanAirAct, this time by reinventing math. Tell the EPA to not sideline the science that supports strong air pollution standards. File a comment by Monday, August 3. Protect our clean air today! act.ucsusa.org/2PaLl5a
Why is the admin messing with math? Because the science on air pollution is inconvenient for powerful industries who want to roll back public protections. @GretchenTG and @_aploy explain: blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/h…
If passed, the admin’s brazen proposal to manipulate cost-benefit analysis would severely limit the EPA’s long-term ability to issue strong, science-based air pollution standards. And it would exacerbate long-standing environmental injustices. act.ucsusa.org/3fewdhu
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For a virus that presents "few to no symptoms" for the majority, "U.S. Orders Up to 600 Million Doses of #Pfizer, BioNTech Covid #Vaccine" (Bloomberg).

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

So let's take a look at Pfizer.
"Pfizer is a publicly-traded global pharma corp.headquartered in NYC. Its revenues reached $52.5 billion in 2017. #Pfizer makes Advil, Xanax, #DepoProvera, Neosporin, #Lyrica & Dimetapp. Pfizer manufacturers more than 350 different pharmaceuticals & operates in 180 countries.
Pfizer's Lyrica, the new vallium, linked to depression, anxiety & suicide, now top pain medication on PBS. #Pregabalin #Addiction. Addicts of #hydromorphone (#Opioid) (Pfizer) have found a new addiction w/ #Lyrica. Capsules are opened, crushed & snorted.

thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-d…
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The Obama @EPA issued a rule under the #CleanAirAct to fight climate change by cutting carbon emissions from new power plants. Now, in a hand-out to polluters, @realDonaldTrump’s EPA is trying to swap in something much weaker.
And in the process, they’re ignoring big changes in the market for carbon capture technology, including new bipartisan incentives I fought to pass into law last year.
This Trump proposal is another example of fossil fuel interests capturing the #EPA and tearing down important environmental protections. Read my comment to the EPA: whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/w…
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George H.W. Bush on Climate change:
Also Bush:

"We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised. We bear a sacred trust in our tenancy here and a covenant with those most precious to us—our children and theirs."
President Bush, like #RhodeIsland’s John Chafee, understood the #Republican Party’s legacy of conservation as a core conservative value.
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As a battle looms ahead, let’s take a look back at where we’ve been & why #CleanCarStandards are so important.

Once upon a time, CA’s fight for #cleanercars emerged from a thick layer of yellowish gray #smog with a metallic taste & eye-stinging character...
When Governor Ronald Reagan signed the law creating CARB in 1968, California had been fighting the #smog monster for over 20 years with regulations to clean up tailpipe pollution
Governor Reagan fought hard to protect CA’s authority to set its own #cleanercarstandards under the newly passed #CleanAirAct, signed by President Nixon a few years after LA’s #smog made the cover of Time Magazine
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This Republican control over all parts of our government defies comparison. On second thought, it feels like a Biblical punishment..Remember the 10 Plagues of Egypt?
#RepublicanPlague #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RiseUp
First, the waters of the land of Egypt were to be turned into blood....
The Clean Water Rule protected smaller bodies of water, like streams and wetlands, from discharges of all kinds of pollutants. But not anymore: #RepublicanPlague #CleanWaterAct
The EPA has delayed implementation for 2 years as the agency “clarifies” (read: eliminates)the rule.The decision is a clear gift to industrial polluters who loudly protested the reg in 2015 & GOP lawmakers who have falsely claimed the rule regulates “puddles on private property.” Large freighter ship spilled red and yellow toxic sludge into waterway. People in small boats float on the spill.
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