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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . The Holocene. The Great Acceleration – Beyond Natural Variation.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

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

Green Business Bureau

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. Carbon accounting is a must for any becoming business today. And to do that, this Green Business Bureau is your guide.

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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. One of them is called “Energy in Depth.”

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

DeSmogBlog

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. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.