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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. It is part of a broader university effort to become a global leader in the climate and energy space. This has created a vacuum that University of Chicago leaders seem excited to fill.

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

DeSmogBlog

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006.