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For decades, the tobacco industry misused science to hide the harms of its products and create confusion about the interventions needed to reduce that harm; it lobbied to avoid regulation and shape policies in its favour. Growing evidence shows that the fossil fuel industry not only uses exactly the same techniques but has also worked jointly with the tobacco industry to shape regulatory rules in their shared interest. Yet, the two industries are treated entirely differently when it comes to policy-making: while there are rules protecting policymaking from the tobacco industry — a firewall kno...
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On 9 April, days after a dam burst caused disastrous flooding in southern Russia, Yulia Navalnya blasted the government’s handling of the crisis on X. “The authorities in our country never seem to be prepared for anything,” the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote in a damning thread. “In winter, they are unprepared for frost and snowstorms, in summer - for fires, and in spring - for floods.” Spring flooding is typical across the Ural region, as the Ural River - Europe’s third longest - fills with snowmelt from the Ural mountains. But the river hit record levels this April w...
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Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they have seen in other extreme weather events, a new report found. Between 10 per cent and 40 per cent more rain fell in just one day last week than it would have in a world without the 1.2 degrees Celsius from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas since the mid-19th century, scientists at World Weather Attribution said Thursday in a flash study that is too ...
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Could human waste power the future of air travel? Wizz Air hopes so. The Hungarian airline says it’s reached a deal with a British company to work on producing sustainable jet fuel made from human waste. The biofuel company, Firefly Green Fuels, has developed a process which will convert waste from sewers into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company says it hopes to begin supplying the lower carbon power source from around 2028 and has come to an agreement with Wizz Air’s UK-based wing to provide up to 525,000 tonnes of SAF over a 15 year period. How will human waste be transformed into s...
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A woman who claims her elbow was broken by police during a climate protest at The Hague has described the painful physical and mental impact of the incident. The Dutch resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, was one of more than 400 people including Greta Thunberg arrested for taking part in the peaceful protest on Saturday. In a video posted to X by organisers Extinction Rebellion Nederland, she is seen lying in the back of a bus while being detained by The Hague police. A male police officer twists her arm forward at an unnatural angle, and she yells out in pain. “This violence is no excep...
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The European Parliament’s energy and trade committees have overwhelmingly backed a proposal by national governments for the EU to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, a post-Cold War international agreement intended to protect investments in unstable formerly communist states. “This is a very important vote and gives also a very clear political message,” MEP Bernd Lange (Germany/Socialists & Democrats) said after the assembly’s draft recommendation was adopted by 58 votes to eight with two abstentions. MEP Anna Cavazzini, a German Green and co-rapporteur for the file, welcomed a “historic”...
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Sealevel rise and increasingly ferocious storms - both driven by climate change - are eroding thousands of miles of Mexico's coastline facing the Gulf and the Pacific Ocean. Around this country of nearly 130 million people, drought is draining reservoirs dry and creating severe water shortages. Deadly heat is straining people and crops and aging infrastructure is struggling to keep up. But the leading presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, an environmental scientist and a co-author of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, is not making climate a cen...
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Sitting at her kitchen table in Modena in Italy’s Emilia Romagna province, Valentina goes through the medical history of her and her husband’s family. Cancer has been common on both sides, with Valentina (54) beating breast cancer several years ago and her husband Andrea (55) in recent remission for bone marrow cancer. “It would be probable that this situation is exacerbated by the pollution,” Valentina tells Euronews Green. The Po Valley where the couple live is one of the most polluted places in Europe in terms of air quality. Major cities such as Milan in Lombardy and Turin in Piedmont suff...
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US President Joe Biden is proposing a huge increase in fuel taxes for private jets. It is being pitched as a fairness issue compared with airline passengers, who pay special taxes on every ticket. The proposal was included in a $109.3 billion (€100b) budget request for the US Department of Transportation, which was released on Monday. The fate of the proposal in Congress is unclear. Many of Biden's budget ideas will flounder in the Republican-controlled House. The largest business-aviation trade group came out against the targeted fuel-tax increase, saying private jets help companies succeed a...
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EU countries representing more than 60 per cent of the bloc’s energy sector have committed to decarbonise their power sectors by 2035. New analysis by campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels has found that 10 member states have committed to eliminating fossil fuels by 2035 or sooner. Four countries - Austria, Denmark, Lithuania and Luxembourg - have explicitly committed to replacing coal and gas with renewables. “It’s encouraging that many European governments share the ambition to usher in the fossil-free era by making 2035 power sector commitments. Now more need to follow suit,” says Tara Connoll...
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