Tag: Pollution
Fighting Shipping Pollution Is Bad For the Planet
(Bloomberg Opinion) --The shipping industry is getting serious about cutting sulfur dioxide emissions. People who live along busy shipping lanes will see health benefits...
An Exxon-Owned Firm Figured Out How to Curb CO2 in 1991
(Bloomberg) --Back in 1991, when climate policy was in its infancy, an Exxon subsidiary came to a startling and prescient conclusion about how to...
Global pollution is rising again and won’t peak before 2040
(Bloomberg) --Global greenhouse-gas pollution rose for a second year, ending a lull in emissions and putting the world on track for further increases through...
World Bank Says Water Pollution Weighs on Global Economic Growth
(Bloomberg) -- Poor water quality saps one-third of potential economic growth in the most heavily polluted areas, according to a new global analysis by...
Will Future Megacities Be a Marvel or a Mess? Look at New Delhi
With a population that’s swelling by about 700,000 each year, India’s capital could be the world’s biggest megacity by 2028.
The effects of unbridled urbanization...