Clean air a constitutional right: South African court rules
Sources of air pollution in South Africa are diverse and complex, but major focus is placed on industrial emissions.
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Sources of air pollution in South Africa are diverse and complex, but major focus is placed on industrial emissions.
There is "no evidence of a safe level of exposure or a threshold below which no adverse health effects occur", says environmental epidemiologist Rico Euripidou on the impacts of a coal mine fire that has been burning for weeks.
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Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has gone on the attack, challenging the authority of the high court to force her to make new regulations to reduce harmful levels of air pollution on the Highveld. Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has gone on...
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Barbara Creecy has filed leave to appeal certain orders in the deadly air judgment.