Alejandra Barunda
speaker
179 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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The rule was intended to limit the amount of particularly dangerous pollutants, like mercury, that came from power plants.
The Biden administration EPA tightened the rule in 2024.
But now, the Trump administration's EPA is rolling back the standard to its previous levels.
The agency says it's part of the administration's efforts to support the coal industry.
Alejandra Burunda, NPR News.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in the country.
For years, scientists have investigated its causes from genetics to lifestyle to environmental exposures.
One growing line of evidence shows that air pollution can be a factor.
The new study was published in the journal PLOS Medicine.
It found that older Americans had a higher chance of getting diagnosed with Alzheimer's if they had lived in a place with dirty air within the previous five years, especially if the person had also had a stroke.
Air in the U.S.
has gotten much cleaner in recent decades because of tightening regulations on pollution.
In 2025, the Trump administration announced that it would consider loosening some of the key rules in order to benefit businesses and manufacturing.
Alejandra Burunda, NPR News.
46% increase in the rate of people presenting for heart attacks during that time period.
Wildfires aren't new in the West.
In fact, many Western habitats evolved with frequent burns, and for thousands of years, Native people managed many Western landscapes with fire.
But fires in the West are getting bigger, smokier, and more destructive.
And at least part of that change is because of human-caused climate change, according to a new study in the journal PNAS.
Since 1997, climate change played the primary role in increasing smokiness, especially in the Sierras and the Cascades.
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