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Solar-charged cars = fewer ear infections in kids

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 12:45 |

Cleaner air translates into fewer ear infections -- and less suffering -- for children, according to a recently published study.

Here's another reason to solar-charge your next car: Cleaner air means healthier ears for kids.

A new study by researchers at UCLA and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests that improvements in air quality over the past decade have resulted in fewer cases of ear infections in children.

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Coal's toxic waste shifts from air to water

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 08:10 |

Coal fired power plant with mountain of coal in front of it.

A mountain of coal sits in front of a power plant in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by Christof Demont-Heinrich)

SOURCE: New York Times

Pressure on coal-plants to clean-up their air pollution act is simply pushing the pollution from our air into our water, as this in-depth investigative piece by the New York Times reveals.

In addition to shattering the myth of "clean coal", this story undermines, albeit indirectly, the notion that coal-produced electricity is cheap. In fact, the environmental costs it sows are high, along with the health costs -- and both of these imply economic costs as well.

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Newswire: Environment

Solar-charged cars = fewer ear infections in kids

Coal's toxic waste shifts from air to water