Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 97

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 89

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In those cases, advocates agreed that the board put science before deference to industry and the president. Those expectations, however, were exceeded.

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Health Ozone Building Energy Monitoring Law 113

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. Credit: NOAA.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 123

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. Credit: NOAA.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 71