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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the "Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality" into its 12th Five Year Plan. Air emission reform in China.

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Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

After this conference, in 2016, Heartland’s science director gave a speech titled "Man-Caused Global Warming: The Greatest Scam in World History" (rather than one called, say, "Man-Caused Global Warming: We Agree We’re Causing It But Predict Less Warming Than Others Do."). and that still believing in it was "more than a little nutty."

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US, China commit to phase down climate-warming HFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners – but what will replace them this time?

Renewable Energy World

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. But when they break down, they create chlorine that reacts with the protective ozone, letting dangerous radiation through to the Earth’s surface. Why HFCs are a climate problem.

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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. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan.

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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. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. Some warned that NASA’s technology was polluting the Earth with rocket exhaust and industrial manufacturing. Sending everyone into orbit clearly isn’t an option.