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Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) News
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Step forward for health protection in Turkey: Proposal to extend the pollution exemptions given to privatised coal power plants withdrawn
Last night, 14 February, all political parties in the Turkish Parliament agreed to withdraw a proposal on granting exemptions from environmental investments including filtration systems, flue gas facilities and ash dams to privatized ...
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Turkish Parliament will vote about polluting coal power plants next week
The Turkish government has already vowed to increase its coal-fired power generation and yet another bid that will be discussed in the Turkish Parliament next week is one of the greatest threat to the environment and the public health. In 2013, ...
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Reducing air pollution from coal power plants in the Western Balkans would save thousands of lives annually
Tomorrow, ministers at the 15th ministerial council meeting of the Energy Community in Kosovo will adopt new rules for emission limits for coal power plants in the Western Balkans (as part of the transposition of the EU’s Industrial Emissions ...
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HEAL Healthy Energy Paper
Check out HEAL’s brand new Healthy Energy Paper in English, Polish and Czech, which we just launched at the 6th Environment and Health conference organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations ...
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New report shows coal plant closures needed by 2030 to meet Paris targets
Entitled "A stress test for coal in Europe", it presents the first science-based shutdown schedule for the EU’s over 300 coal power plants – in order for it to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal. The ...
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New subsidy scheme for Turkish coal power plants
A new law has been published in Turkey promoting a subsidy scheme that could threaten health of its citizens and the energy future and environmental regulations of the country. Energy has a critical status in Turkey in the 2023 Vision and ...
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G20 leaders fail to agree on timeline to phase out health-harming fossil fuel subsidies
During this week’s summit, the G20 failed to agree on a timeline to phase out inefficient health-harming fossil fuel subsidies, missing an opportunity to prevent ill health and meet the Paris climate goals. At this week’s G20 summit in ...
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Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
The health costs of coal-fired power stations add a financial burden to the European population of up to €42.8 billion a year. The assessment is published today in a major new report from the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) (1). The ...