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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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

DeSmogBlog

Hyde, who went on to serve as the TCEQ’s executive director from 2014 to 2018, now works as a lobbyist for the petrochemical industry. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. I haven’t seen the data that says lowering ozone will produce a health benefit,” he told The Texas Tribune. “In

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. 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.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. 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.

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In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails

Grist

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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