Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Back in the fall of 2020, RISE. James protest march in Lutcher, Louisiana, on October 17, 2020. So on October 17, 2020, the date of the planned protest, members of RISE St. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A recent Pew Charitable Trusts report found that 78 percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, which makes efforts to cut down on microfiber pollution from our laundry seem a bit quaint. When 6PPD reacts with ozone, it becomes 6PPD-quinone. When it rains, it is carried away. One such toxin is 6PPD-quinone.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

The first COVID-19 lockdowns led to significant changes in urban air pollution levels around the world, but the changes were smaller than expected – a new study appears to reveal. In parallel, the lockdowns caused (weather-corrected) concentrations of ozone in cities to increase. The changes in PM2.5 differ from city to city.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Comparing before and after photos, most people thought that reduced air pollution may have only been COVID-19 pandemic ’s redeeming quality. Plastic pollution brings a host of environmental problems, with many ending up in landfills for, possibly, eternity. Incineration = Air Pollution. Endangersthe Marine Ecosystem.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate. In 2020, more than a hundred climate and forest scientists submitted a letter to Congress advising lawmakers not to trust the industry’s sustainability claims.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong. Click here to watch the GoodShipping explanation video.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong. Click here to watch the GoodShipping explanation video.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Aramco, the company sitting on the world’s second-largest pool of oil reserves, took majority control of SABIC, one of the world’s top five petrochemical companies, in June 2020. In Mount Vernon, in southern Indiana, the SABIC Innovative Plastics facility released an average of 22,690 pounds of ethylbenzene each year between 2016 and 2020.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

May 21, 2020. Air pollution can cause heart and lung disease, which makes coronavirus more deadly. But in the midst of this unprecedented public health crisis, the Trump Administration is rolling back public health protections that keep us safe from air pollution.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Still, Serna held out hope that the news that night might be positive — that maybe, just maybe, the pollution wasn’t as bad as the odors let on.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

As the chief toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state environmental protection agency, Honeycutt had developed a reputation for holding fringe views on air pollution. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The post Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. And despite a dip in polluting activities due to the pandemic, concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to its highest level in 3.6 The post Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Interestingly, the US withdrawal from the agreement goes into effect one day after the 2020 election. Nevertheless, CO2 emissions are expected to drop up to 10% in 2020, according to a projection by the Energy Information Administration. The decrease is due to the COVID-19 pandemic which shut down the US economy for several months.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT. In addition to avoiding the volatility of high-tension foreign commodities markets and the mounting social cost of carbon-polluting energy sources, an investment in clean energy doubles as an investment in long-term, good-paying American jobs.

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