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St Austell Air Quality Most places around the world are experiencing poor air quality. St Austell in Cornwall is no exception. The air quality has severely dropped over the past years. Many people around St Austell are having to move out of their houses due to this decrease in air quality. Poor air quality can increase the risk or increase the severity of lung related diseases like asthma. We interviewed Geoff Brown to ask him some questions. St Austell Air Quality Q1) In the future, do you think the air quality will drop further? Q2) What do you think is the primary reason for the drop in air quality? Q3) What can people in St Austell can do to help the air quality? Q4) If the air quality keeps on dropping, what will the future of St Austell be like? Q5) What are the future intentions to help the air quality in St Austell?

🍃  Grist News Report   🍃   (permission granted from Grist) Why is California building fossil-fuel power plants it doesn’t need? A big piece in the Los Angeles Times asks that question. Californians have done a great job of conserving energy; electricity usage peaked in 2008. Even relatively new power plants have been shut down in recent years because the state doesn’t need their electricity. But utilities keep building new generators. There are more than 10 plants cued up for approval — a couple are solar and geothermal projects, but most would run on natural gas. In a sane world, we’d be shutting down the most polluting plants as we ramp up clean energy. But building new plants is incredibly profitable for utilities, so they keep doing it. “Utilities are typically guaranteed a rate of return of about 10.5% for the cost of each new plant regardless of need,” writes the Times. Basically the incentive system we’ve set up for utilities in the U.S. is great for spurr...