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"UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Pollution

UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study
Researchers have analysed UK-wide trends for three major pollutants.

Poultry megafarm in Shropshire halted over river pollution concerns https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/17/poultry-megafarm-in-shropshire-halted-over-river-pollution-concerns

Vikings' Jordan Addison resolves DUI case by pleading no contest to a lesser charge https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-jordan-addison-resolves-dui-case-by-pleading-no-contest-to-a-lesser-charge

Woah les ripoux! In Frankreich wurde eine Untersuchungsbericht, der über signifikante Fehler von Nestlé Waters berichtete (Kontaminierung des Mineralwassers, z.B. Badoit) vom Staat/der Politik so verwässert, bis die Vorwürfe weg waren.
Das kommt jetzt als Bummerang prime time. Congrats an Radio France, die sich trauen, das hoch zu kochen.

NAACP files intent to sue Elon Musk's xAI company over supercomputer air pollution | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/naacp-files-intent-to-sue-elon-musks-xai-company-over-supercomputer-air-pollution

The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Elon Musk’s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
Yuka Machino, Matthias Hofer, Max Siegel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Robert D. Hawkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15623

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
Misunderstandings in cross-cultural communication often arise from subtle differences in interpretation, but it is unclear whether these differences arise from the literal meanings assigned to words or from more general pragmatic factors such as norms around politeness and brevity. In this paper, we report three experiments examining how speakers of British and American English interpret intensifiers like "quite" and "very." To better understand these cross-cultural differences, we developed a …

Auf der Hohen #Molmert bei #Plettenberg entsteht ein Windpark mit fünf 250 Meter hohen Anlagen vom Typ #Vestas V172.
Die P-Wind GmbH investiert rund 50 Millionen Euro in das Projekt mit 36 Mega…

250 Meter hohe Türme: Baustart für Mega-Windpark für 50 Millionen Euro
Windpark der Superlative: In Plettenberg rollen die Bauarbeiten für 250-Meter-Windräder an. Investitionsvolumen: 50 Millionen Euro. Es gibt einen geplanten Fertigstellungstermin.

"How does air pollution affect mental health? New study aimed to find out"
#Pollution #AirPollution #Health