"pollution check"

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11 June 2024

Sitaram Hachhethu, Chief of Lalitpur Metropolitan Police, is sticking a pollution clearance sticker on the windshield of a vehicle that has passed the air pollution inspection in Lalitpur, Nepal, on June 11, 2024. The Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC) is, for the first time in the Himalayan Nation, checking the pollution levels of both private and public four-wheeled vehicles plying on the road and offering a green sticker, signaling clean and well-maintained, in coordination with the Transport Management Office. Those who fail the pollution check are receiving a warning of a week to fix the vehicle and, upon passing the deadline, are being subjected to punishment.

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#11321939

11 June 2024

Sitaram Hachhethu, Chief of Lalitpur Metropolitan Police, is pointing to the pollution clearance sticker on the windshield of a vehicle that is passing the air pollution inspection in Lalitpur, Nepal, on June 11, 2024. The Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC) is, for the first time in the Himalayan Nation, checking the pollution levels of both private and public four-wheeled vehicles plying on the road and offering a green sticker, signaling clean and well-maintained, in coordination with the Transport Management Office. Those who fail the pollution check are receiving a warning of a week to fix the vehicle, and upon passing the deadline, they are being subjected to punishment.

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#11321940

11 June 2024

Members of the Lalitpur Metropolitan City Police are inspecting the pollution level of a vehicle by stopping it on the side of a road as a measure to curb air pollution in Lalitpur, Nepal, on June 11, 2024. The Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC) is, for the first time in the Himalayan nation, checking the pollution level of both private and public four-wheeled vehicles plying on the road and offering a green sticker, signaling clean and well-maintained, in coordination with the Transport Management Office. Those who fail the pollution check are given a warning of a week to fix the vehicle, and upon passing the deadline, would be subjected to punishment.

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#11179382

26 April 2024

Technicians are checking the installed bridge at the biochemical center of the construction project for the Hazardous Waste (solid waste) Disposal and Resource Utilization Center in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China, on April 24, 2024.

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#10983819

11 February 2024

Workers are checking the operation of environmental protection equipment at a metallurgical company in Zhangye, China, on February 11, 2024.

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#10983821

11 February 2024

Workers are checking the operation of environmental protection equipment at a metallurgical company in Zhangye, China, on February 11, 2024.

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#10878526

29 December 2023

Shells are being pictured in the Dnipro River as the water level is low in Cherkasy, Ukraine, on December 20, 2023.

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#10878527

29 December 2023

Shells are being pictured in the Dnipro River as the water level is low in Cherkasy, Ukraine, on December 20, 2023.

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#10842271

10 December 2023

A person is carrying chickens on his motorcycle as he passes next to a dog in Kolkata, India, on December 10, 2023.

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#10139656

9 June 2023

A man checks his phone at the Washington Monument in heavy haze, the Lincoln Memorial barely visible in the background. Heavy pollution from wildfires in Canada blankets Washington, DC, in haze. Hundreds of wildfires are burning across Canada, creating hazardous air quality in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

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#8993138

12 October 2022

Roads and shops are seen closed during a general strike in Jerusalem suburbs on October 12, 2022. Life was disrupted in Shufat refugee and Anata for the last days after the Israeli authorities decided to collectively punish more than 130,000 Palestinian residents of these two neighborhoods by locking them in following a shooting attack at an army checkpoint at the camp’s entrance on Saturday night that left one soldier dead and another critically wounded.

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#8663494

14 August 2022

Two Congressmen check their phoines outside the chamber while waiting to vote on the Inflation Reduction Act in the House of Reprensentatives. The House reconvened during the August recess for a special session to vote on the version of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Senate on Sunday. The bill passed on a party-line vote of 220 to 207; all House Republicans voted against the legislation. The bill addresses many Democratic priorities, including, incentives for clean energy, job creation, and lower healthcare costs.

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#8494490

4 July 2022

Chickens search for food amongst a large pile of garbage in the Poombarai Village in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India, on May 17, 2022. The Poombarai village is located in the heart of the Palani hills at an elevation of around 6300 feet above sea-level.

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4 July 2022

Rooster searches for food amongst a large pile of garbage in the Poombarai Village in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India, on May 17, 2022. The Poombarai village is located in the heart of the Palani hills at an elevation of around 6300 feet above sea-level.

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#7612212

9 January 2022

Chechoslovak wolfdog in Turnicki forest on January 6, 2022 near Makowa, Carpathian mountains, south-eastern Poland.

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#6753226

25 May 2021

Steam rises from cooling towers of Turow coal-fired power station on May 25, 2021 in Bogatynia, Poland. At the request of Chekhov, the European Union ordered Poland on May 25, 2021 to close hard coal mines in Turow. This is the only workplace for the inhabitants of this region. The miners are threatening strikes and will not give up their jobs.

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