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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al., It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S.

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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

sources include vehicle emissions, coal-burning power plants, industrial emissions, and burning agricultural waste. m/m3 was exceeded in 43% of all the cities analyzed, while in 2019 this had dropped to only 41%. The cities with the worst increases in this pollutant between 2010 and 2019 are predominantly in India.

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. A 2022 report from the World Bank estimated that the global health cost of mortality and morbidity caused by exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution in 2019 was $8.1

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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals

Grist

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.

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Covid-19 risk greater in urban centres affected by air pollution

Envirotec Magazine

and ground-level ozone (O?) And official monitoring stations in Milan reveal a similar effect. Governments should have tackled chronic air pollution long ago, but have prioritised the economy over health by going soft on the auto industry. Particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO?) In early March, ESA also said PM2.5

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Although it has been linked to leukemia since the late 1920s, it is unevenly regulated because of relentless opposition from industry groups. And there are still no federal standards for ambient benzene exposure — the amount that people who live near industrial facilities can safely breathe as they go about their daily lives.

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Less air pollution leads to higher crop yields, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The analysis, published on 1 June in Science Advances , uses satellite images to reveal for the first time how nitrogen oxides – gases found in car exhaust and industrial emissions – affect crop productivity. Overall, the effects seemed most negative in seasons and locations where NOx likely drives ozone formation.

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