Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. By 2014, it had landed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

To understand more about emissions from cannabis growth, let’s look at what happened in Colorado after the state began allowing the sale of recreational cannabis in 2014. In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

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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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

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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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. 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.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

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. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Article continues below. More in this series. Fertilizer is a major pollutant.

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