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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Sir David Attenborough brought this stunning documentary film in 2020. This documentary was created in reaction to the Trump administration’s slashing of the laws protecting these public lands. The Reluctant Radical questions the law and what society deems as right and wrong. Length: 1 hour 32 minutes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I I haven’t seen the data that says lowering ozone will produce a health benefit,” he told The Texas Tribune. “In

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it on Jan 23, 2020.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

May 21, 2020. EPA, both by definition and by law, has a moral and legal obligation to protect all Americans from air pollution that contributes to climate change and damages our health. Contact: Ben Schneider, bschneider@edf.org , 202-572-3279.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The reporting found there had been nearly 500 illegal chemical releases in the region since 2020, including one that killed two workers and injured dozens more at a LyondellBasell plant. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, Honeycutt questioned the Obama EPA’s strengthening of smog regulations, making the argument — contrary to scientific evidence — that reducing ozone levels would result in negligible health benefits in part because most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors. Now that fight is before a state court judge.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 12, 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement.

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