Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

EEA estimates from 2019 attributed approximately 307,000 premature deaths to fine particulate matter in the 27 EU Member States, with a further 40,400 linked to nitrogen dioxide, and 16,800 to ground-level ozone. and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. United Nations Environment Programme.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations. Including environmental justice as a criterion for permitting decisions.

Pollution 465

Pollution Health Politics Policy 465

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

The rule includes a sunset date, whereby the WPCO requirement expires after both an EPA finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the federal 2015 ozone standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) and a CARB finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the state ozone standard of 70 ppb. Further Actions.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. The Act guarantees full employment, incomes and training for all affected workers - and it puts the duty to report on full employment at fair wages, for everyone, back into the law. It's morally wrong and must stop.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Representatives from West Group, a law and policy firm, proposed the first of these “energy choice” ballot measures in August. Ground-level ozone — the key component in smog — results when certain pollutants react with sunlight. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Pollution Law 56

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. ” An excerpt from Shell’s September 1992 “ Business Environment Occasional Paper ” on the “Potential Augmented Greenhouse Effect, & Depletion of the Ozone Layer.”

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. For a year and a half, Ken worked to shut down all U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

We operate under a stringent state and federal regulatory system, and report emissions to the EPA and TCEQ in a consistent and timely manner in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations and permits.”. Ozone is an ingredient in smog and a respiratory irritant. The ability to monitor in real time is critical, Hilliard said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is what serious international treaties, such as those covering “free trade”, and successful environmental treaties such as the Montreal accords (which sorted the Ozone problem) do. Credit: Adam Victor. This suspense will be released when we realise that nobody has such power — and this hopeless COP is the time for such a shift.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I I haven’t seen the data that says lowering ozone will produce a health benefit,” he told The Texas Tribune. “In

Energy Monitor 95

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 95

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban.

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Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 132

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 14, 2022

Unsurprisingly, California and other states sued to stop the revocation. “Whether the EPA’s reissuance of the California’s 2013 Clean Air Act waiver is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law because EPA failed to consider whether its actions is consistent with the equal-sovereignty doctrine.”.

Climate change 40

Climate change Ozone Law Health 40

Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

EPA, both by definition and by law, has a moral and legal obligation to protect all Americans from air pollution that contributes to climate change and damages our health.

Pollution 52

Pollution Ozone Health Climate change 52

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. In June of 1988 James E.

Climate change 40

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The Democrat-controlled Harris County Commissioners Court — which oversees a multibillion-dollar budget and sets policies for everything from public health to law enforcement — gave the county’s Pollution Control department $5.9

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, Honeycutt questioned the Obama EPA’s strengthening of smog regulations, making the argument — contrary to scientific evidence — that reducing ozone levels would result in negligible health benefits in part because most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors. Now that fight is before a state court judge.

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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.

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Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The two major parties worked together to bring clean air and clean water acts into law, and the results were very beneficial for the United States. This bill is called the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 16 , and it has a long way to go before it becomes law. In fact, George H.W.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 6, 2021

In defiance of science and the law, EPA attempts to halt 50 years of progress delivered by the Clean Air Act.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 12, 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement.

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