Want good news? Really good news? OK:
Coal power generation falls in China and India for the first time since the 1970s, primarily as a result of new clean energy expansion. In combination, these actions may mean a peak in greenhouse gas emissions and gradual decline soon (especially if one or more of these actions continues).
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s
#CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #renewables #China #India #coal #FossilFuel #GHG #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #pollution #AirPollution #solar

Want good news? Really good news? OK:
Coal power generation falls in China and India for the first time since the 1970s, primarily as a result of new clean energy expansion. In combination, these actions may mean a peak in greenhouse gas emissions and gradual decline soon (especially if one or more of these actions continues).
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s
#CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #renewables #China #India #coal #FossilFuel #GHG #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #pollution #AirPollution #solar

#EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on #AirPollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, & not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

For decades, the #EPA has calculated the #health benefits of reducing #AirPollution, using the cost estimates of avoided #asthma attacks & premature #deaths to justify #CleanAir rules.

Not anymore.

Under #Trump, the EPA plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing 2 of the most widespread deadly #air pollutants, fine particulate matter & ozone, when regulating industry, acc/to internal agency emails & documents reviewed by The NYT.

#law #PublicHealth #pollution

#EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on #AirPollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, & not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share