DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Weld County, a 4,000-square-mile area northeast of Denver, this year received failing air quality grades for ozone and particulate matter — pollutants linked to fossil fuel extraction — from the American Lung Association. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. Rupa Basu poses for a photo while pregnant with her second child in June 2007. Somehow living has become a political issue,” she said. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power.

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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.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. To protect its residents from microcystins , cyanobacteria toxins that can sicken people, Toledo has spent $53 million on an under-construction ozone treatment system, $6.2 Kiichiro Sato / AP Photo.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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