February 17, 2022 - ...economy based on renewable generation and storage. Immediate health benefits will be a reduction in child asthma in communities close to the power stations. Also a reduction in fine particle air pollution, which contributes to mortality from heart attack and stroke across a wide area. We would expect slightly healthier babies within a year of closure, as fine particle air pollution also affects infant growth during pregnancy. DEA would like to thank Origin Energy along with MPs Dominic Perrotet, James Griffin, Matt Kean who created the policy environment to make this step possible. Read more: ABC News Australia Share this...
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Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health.
Better air quality reduces illness and death from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases, such as asthma. Links to diabetes and impaired infant growth are increasingly recognised. Policies to support reducing the combustion of fossil fuels through cleaner transport and power generation, are needed to reduce key sources of outdoor air pollution. Our Air Pollution Special Interest Group(SIG) members seek to support policies and programs to improve the health of all Australians through better protection of clean air.
Air Pollution Resources
REPORT ON AIR POLLUTION
“Lethal power: how coal is killing people in Australia” delivers a nation-wide estimate of the health effects from air pollution
FACTSHEETS ON AIR POLLUTION
Bushfires and Health: our fire-prone continent is at particular risk from the impacts of climate change, and we are experiencing more extreme heat events, an increase in severe fire danger days and a longer fire season. (Dec 2017)
The Guardian: Australian power stations among world’s worst for toxic air pollution
August 19, 2019 - Dr Ben Ewald told the Guardian that there were places in Australia that had a serious SO2 (sulphur dioxide) problem and limits were set well above what was needed to protect human health. The comments followed a Greenpeace report using satellite data to analyse the world’s worst sources of sulphur dioxide pollution, one of the main pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide. Dr Ewald stated the same was the case for nitrogen dioxide, another airborne pollutant. “These pollutants can cause childhood asthma, lung disease, cancer, birth defects and reproductive issues. “Australian governments must introduce tougher standards to protect...
New Vehicle Efficiency Standard for Australia
March 5, 2024 - ...of the New Vehicle Emission Standard. DEA does not support the use of an emissions curve. All covered vehicles should be treated as a single class regardless of weight, to avoid allowing heavier vehicles to be less fuel efficient. This reduces the perverse incentive towards the use of heavier vehicles. Bringing forward ‘real world’ emissions testing for vehicles, Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP) or better. Ensure credits are for real reductions in tailpipe emissions, determined by real world testing. Legislating for targets, compliance and penalties rather than placing these in regulations that are more easily changed and would...
Dr Carolyn Orr for TEDxUWA: End fossil fuels to protect human health
March 23, 2022 - ...gas will be cleaner, healthier and safer for us all. She believes that each of us has the power and the responsibility to help hasten the transition to a world without fossil fuels. Climate care is health care Dr Orr loves clinical care, teaching and research; and specialises in the devastating illnesses that affect cognition, including early onset dementia. She is deeply troubled by newspaper articles about climate change. She resisted the temptation to turn away and instead learned about the deep connections between our environment and human health. Many apparently unexplained human illness come from environmental pollution and extreme...
Clear the air in coal versus health debate
May 14, 2012 - ...the health of Newcastle inhabitants. The air of Newcastle is already polluted according to the meagre data presented in the Environmental Impact Statement. There is pollution of fine particulates (PM10) in excess of World health Organisation standards at a number of monitoring sites. Yet there is growing recognition that there is no safe level for the finest dust particles. This pollution is likely to be impacting on the health of inhabitants; there is no evidence for this at present because studies have not been done but similar levels of pollution in many countries do increase the incidence of several heart...