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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7

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Smart grid: IoT predictive maintenance guide

Smart Energy International

In the rapidly evolving energy sector, smart grid IoT applications are driving a profound transformation towards a greener and more sustainable future. With advanced technologies integrating renewable energy sources, the approach to energy distribution is undergoing a revolutionary shift.

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WHO values are insufficient, say developers of European map of aerosol pollution

Envirotec Magazine

“These are used by epidemiologists to determine the aerosol sources that are most detrimental to human health.” While the composition of fine dust varies across the sites, the researchers say they have consistently identified the main source of aerosol pollution: residential heating with solid combustibles such as wood or coal.

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Urban wood burning is soaring, with 18,000 complaints but only 3 fines

Envirotec Magazine

Having a wood stove in your home is like having 750 diesel trucks pumping their exhaust into your living room [1], as the group explains, yet 200,000 stoves are sold every year in the UK. Campaigners have written to the Health Secretary to call for wood stoves to be phased out by 2027. air pollution. [2]. I am powerless to stop it.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Joyner’s home sits in a cozy loop of houses in a small Northampton County town. million tons of pellets per year.

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

DeSmogBlog

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

Grist

He had already sowed many of his fields with cover crops — not for harvest but to improve soil health and capture carbon dioxide through photosynthesis — and he expanded his use of them. This particular power station was supposed to be special — a carbon-neutral facility. John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images. “If

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