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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. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. Air emission reform in China. Targets for regulation.

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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.

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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.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

Those Apollo missions are often credited with providing inspiration for the environmental movement, as well as the first Earth Day in April 1970, when some 20 million Americans demanded that political leaders clean up the air and water in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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

DeSmogBlog

Duane Levine gives a presentation to the company’s board of directors where he’s comparing what governments did with these chemicals called CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, with what might happen to fossil fuels when governments start to focus on climate change. I didn’t even know until later he had done ozone hole denial.

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

Green Business Bureau

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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

DeSmogBlog

It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Since 2016, eight petrochemical facilities have opened in the state, according to Oil and Gas Watch , a nonprofit that tracks the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.