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Our submission on the Planning and Natural Environment Bills

Health Impacts and Costs of Indoor Combustion in Aotearoa New Zealand

The ICJ just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage

The world has (probably) passed peak pollution

Health Effects Institute: State of Global Air 2024

A special report on global exposure to air pollution and its health impacts, especially on children.

We’ve updated our NES(GHG:IPH) Threshold Calculator

Open letter to Minister of Transport re clean car discount

Air pollution kills. The new Government could do something about it.

July 2022 UN declares human right to breathe clean air

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

NZ Wildfire Guidelines 2021

2026

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Feb 13, 2026

Our submission on the Planning and Natural Environment Bills

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The Minister of Transport writes back

Jan 20, 2026

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Meri Kirihimete from Emission Impossible Ltd

We’re so cool…

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Letters to the Minister of Transport - an ongoing saga…

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The Minister’s reply to our open letter re cuts to Clean Car Standards

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Open letter to the Minister of Transport re cuts to Clean Car Standards

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More than just a bad smell: Odour pollution and health in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Health Impacts and Costs of Indoor Combustion in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Australian study estimates transport-related air pollution responsible for 1,800 premature deaths per year

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The Lancet: Long-term air pollution exposure & incident dementia

New study in Lancet on long-term air pollution exposure and dementia

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The ICJ just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage

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New Zealand research finds poor classroom air quality hinders learning

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2024 was an astonishingly good year for clean energy

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Are banks right to ditch ‘dirty’ customers?

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The world has (probably) passed peak pollution

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Harmful Algal Bloom Field Study: Lake Waikare 2024

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2024

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Meri Kirihimete from Emission Impossible Ltd

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New Zealand transport system killing thousands

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Clean Air Medal for Gerda

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Health Effects Institute: State of Global Air 2024

A special report on global exposure to air pollution and its health impacts, especially on children.

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We’ve updated our NES(GHG:IPH) Threshold Calculator

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EIL joins Motu Manawa Kayak Clean Up

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Increasing speed limits defies the science

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Govt employs one person on air quality despite 3,000 yearly deaths

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There’s a new NES for industrial boilers - do you need a consent?

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WHO agrees definition of airborne

New WHO report on “airborne”

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2023

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Open letter to Minister of Transport re clean car discount

Air pollution kills. The new Government could do something about it.

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Opinion: We might be on the verge of an indoor air quality revolution

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Indoor air is full of flu and COVID viruses

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2022

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July 2022 UN declares human right to breathe clean air

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The Dominion Post gets real on climate change

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Public health risks associated with transport emissions in New Zealand

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PFAS in household waste may be going airborne

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From crisis to opportunity: How the Philippines built 500km of bike lanes in less than a year

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NZ Accession to MARPOL Annex VI

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The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

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NZ Wildfire Guidelines 2021

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2021

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Long-term exposure to PM10 above WHO guidelines exacerbates COVID-19 severity and mortality

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Air pollution linked to millions of birth complications across the globe

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Spraydrift could cost $525,000

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WHO 2021 Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution

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The 100 Most Influential People of 2021 : Lydia Morawska

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Long term exposure to air pollution, mortality and morbidity in New Zealand: Cohort study

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Dr Kuschel weighs in

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Man saved from deportation after air pollution plea in French legal ‘first’

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2020

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Who gets to breathe clean air?

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Baby powder contains asbestos

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Proposed amendments to the National Environmental Standards for Air Quality

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National Lockdown Emissions Drop

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Su is Volunteer of the Year!

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Australian bushfires impact New Zealand

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2019

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New Zealand research finds poor classroom air quality hinders learning

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Yes, electric vehicles really are better than fossil fuel burners

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Researchers Memorialize First Major Icelandic Glacier Lost To Climate Change

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“Mind the gap!” Real-world emissions in New Zealand

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Our Zero Carbon Bill submission

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2018

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Gerda appointed to the EPA Board

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NZ’s first truck conversion workshop opens

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2017 US EPA Integrated Science Assessment – Sulphur Dioxide

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2017

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Walking in traffic-polluted vs traffic free areas

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2016

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Air Quality Case Law: 2016 Review

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Gerda is now a qualified PADI rescue diver!

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2015

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Jun 2012: IARC rules diesel exhaust carcinogenic

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2014

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Emission Impossible challenge to Climate Change Minister

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2013

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WHO 2013 Review of evidence on health aspects of air pollution

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IARC: Outdoor air pollution a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths

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Emission Impossible on TV!

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2012

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Sep 11, 2012

Emission Impossible update of HAPINZ goes live

Sep 11, 2012

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Sep 11, 2012

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IARC rules diesel exhaust carcinogenic

Jun 11, 2012

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Jun 11, 2012

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