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The ‘environmental crime of the century’ solved

Grist

The gas, CFC-11, was banned in 2010 under the Montreal Protocol — the international treaty to eliminate substances that wreck the Earth’s protective ozone layer. Years of efforts to protect the ozone layer might be reversed if the emissions continued, experts warned. We saw unprecedented enforcement actions in China.”.

Ozone 136
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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

sources include vehicle emissions, coal-burning power plants, industrial emissions, and burning agricultural waste. The cities with the worst increases in this pollutant between 2010 and 2019 are predominantly in India. over 2010-2019. Between NO2 and PM2.5, exceed the WHO’s guidelines (5?g.m3). contributes to this effect.

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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

Colleagues, particularly those who had not ever been pregnant, implied she was wasting her time. She published the research in 2010, and even though she focused on California, it was the first large-scale epidemiological study looking at preterm delivery and temperature conducted anywhere in the world. And the U.S.

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Additionally, Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine reported: “Since 2010, no new HCFCs equipment have been manufactured in Canada or imported,” though extant ones are still in use today. Traditional ice rinks have noise, energy waste and pollution costs.

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

DeSmogBlog

Perry “would kind of stay in our business a lot, I’ll put it that way,” said Shankle, who left the agency for a job at a radioactive-waste company. “He 12, 2010, the TCEQ’s deputy director of compliance and enforcement, John Sadlier, addressed a Fort Worth City Council meeting packed with residents and clean-air advocates.

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Tom Steyer: A Pandemic Is No Time to Pander to the Fossil Fuel Industry

GreenTechMedia

” Public Investment implies that what you build actually matters, that wasting money is, well, wasting money and, as in all investments activity, there's a dramatic difference between a smart, productive choice and a foolish, unproductive one. But a better description of that activity is “public investment.”