DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, located in Göteborg, Sweden, have performed the first life-cycle assessment of a commercially available two-seater all-electric aircraft—the Pipistrel Alpha Electro, manufactured in Slovenia—directly comparing it to the fossil fuel-powered version of the same plane.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Burning of fossil fuels which have taken millions of years to form has effectively upset the balance leading to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere,” Wilkinson wrote. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e. and other municipalities across the country. .”

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2021

The increasing population density in the world , migration and urbanization movements, rising living standards, increasingly increasing and excessive consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas for the last 150 years, and changes in land cover as a result of the increase in intensive industrial production.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

These include nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which are mostly produced by the combustion of fossil fuels such as in vehicles and engines, as well as industrial processes such as power generation and cement manufacture. Typically, at Signal Group, the flows of ozone and sample are set in a ratio of 10:1.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Since then progress has been made on mending the ozone layer and stopping acid rain but few are now pretending that environmental issues are non-partisan. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their children as good a planet as they inherited.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fossil fuel industry, pesticides, and industrial agriculture are inextricably linked,” explained Asha Sharma, PANNA organizing co-director and co-author of the report. Pesticide companies are complicit in the climate crisis, and further the agricultural sector’s dependency on fossil fuels.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded. Document 7: 1981.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

If we want to mitigate the worst impacts, it’s going to take a deliberate focus on reducing fossil fuels emissions to near zero — and even then we’ll need to look for ways to further remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere,” Sweeney said. Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. This includes ending overseas financing for fossil fuels as part of the administration's commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. But when they break down, they create chlorine that reacts with the protective ozone, letting dangerous radiation through to the Earth’s surface. Why HFCs are a climate problem.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The guidelines also create new standards for peak season ozone — which occurs during the summer months when afternoon light mixes with ground-level volatile compounds — and carbon monoxide, caused by vehicles and machinery. and PM10 — but loosening the standard for sulfur dioxide. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

If we want to mitigate the worst impacts, it’s going to take a deliberate focus on reducing fossil fuels emissions to near zero — and even then we’ll need to look for ways to further remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere,” Sweeney said. Globally averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane abundance.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. We spend more on subsidizing the fossil fuel industry than we do on all renewable energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

particles derived from fossil fuel burning, ozone and volatile organic compounds, such as sulphate aerosols and nitrous oxides, which play a major role in causing worldwide issues with air quality. IRMS instruments are one of the most effective means of tracking and tracing the sources of pollution.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

As far as ozone pollution goes, L.A. This year’s installation of the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report gave Los Angeles , Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties an F in particle and ozone pollution. and surrounding counties lead the nation, says a new study. Forty percent of U.S.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Overall, deaths from these so-called “modern” forms of pollution — pollution that’s associated with industrialization, the use of fossil fuels, and chemical exposure — have increased by more than 66 percent over the past two decades. Air pollution is by far the deadliest culprit, causing more than 6.5

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Wind and solar are now cheaper than all fossil fuels. The total cost of ownership for electric vehicles has been lower than fossil fuel vehicles since 2015. This means, when businesses buy fossil fuel motors, they are polluting and losing money. A green recovery will make everyone wealthier.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Delayed a compliance deadline for new national ozone pollution standards by one year, but later reversed course. Reversed course on repealing emissions standards for “glider” trucks — vehicles retrofitted with older, often dirtier engines — after Andrew Wheeler took over as head of the E.P.A.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

The majority of plastics are created from fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. Unfortunately, the extraction of these resources produces toxic emissions and potentially dangerous chemicals such as benzene, carbon monoxide, ethylbenzene, hydrogen sulfide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, toluene, and xylene.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Grid reliability is also the core use case for Con Edison’s 2 MW battery at Ozone Park in Queens and for a 1 MW demonstration project with Shell/GI Energy in Staten Island. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8 A battery business case geared toward a renewables-rich future.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2020

Critics of geoengineering often argue that it doesn’t address many of the problems that greenhouse gas emissions create, or that it might be used as a ploy by the fossil fuel industry to weaken efforts to cut emissions, or that we simply shouldn’t be messing with nature. It’s also estimated to be a much cheaper approach.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Setting aside for a moment the fact that most Canadian voters want their government to both act on climate change and prepare Canada’s economy to compete in a world moving away from fossil fuels, there’s another reason to pay attention to the global economic transition toward a cleaner economy: self-preservation.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wide scale adoption of solar and other renewable energy must continue so we can address the negative societal and economic impacts of dirty fossil fuels.10 But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. 14 Solar Saves on Gas and Fuel 9.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 8, 2020

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs. We are seeing massive fossil fuel divestment as the entire industry declines.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossil fuels. More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The chemiluminescence detector (CLD) method of measuring NO is based on the use of a controlled amount of ozone (O3) coming into contact with the sample containing NO inside a light sealed chamber. This chamber has a photomultiplier fitted so that it measures the photons given off by the reaction that takes place between NO and O3.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tip #3: Minimize fossil fuel usage by data centers. And the majority of this power is generated by the burning of fossil fuels. Also, mining is a significant air pollutant, releasing Ozone and ~4.5Gt of CO 2e each year. Many data centers used by companies require a massive amount of power.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. After repeatedly hearing mention of the Holocene at a scientific conference in Mexico, Crutzen lost his temper.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

The report also argues that because methane contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone, a 45 per cent cut in emissions could help prevent 255,000 premature deaths and 775,000 asthma-related hospital visits each year. The sector-by-sector analysis of what must be done provides a clear roadmap that we must implement urgently.

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Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Money from fossil fuels. It doesn’t help that politicians get much of their campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. spent by the fossil fuel industry on campaign contributions to make the signs you post in your yard. In order to run for government, they need that $42,373,561 6.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 22, 2020

We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. His fossil fuel powered politics is at war with nature. Poverty is at it lowest levels in human history and life expediencies are at their highest. We have shown that we can make a difference. In the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, the analysts estimate that £1.6bn in damages and 17,000 lives could be saved annually in Bristol, London, Manchester, and Birmingham if the cities worked to meet guidelines on all major air pollutants, which also include particulate matter and ozone.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Trump Administration has also refused to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter and ozone. Clean Energy Trump "remains committed" to expanding fossil fuel energy production in the US. The administration has also intervened in permitting for fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This period is marked by our industrial revolution with the discovery of fossil fuel gold and its sinister implications. These choices demand self-reflection regarding our fossil fuel use and what we eat. The documentary follows local groups as they speak to one another and resist fossil fuel development.

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