Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

We also measure gases that are responsible for the formation of ground-level ozone, which is very harmful to human health,” said Schreier. The five-year project will run until 2021. In a next step, the Vienna MAX-DOAS measurements are however designed to look into other pollutants, including particulate matter. “We What is MAX-DOAS?

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Of all those options, the charcoal grill produces the most CO2 and contributes more to ground-level ozone. To find a public fireworks displays in your state, check out the Parade list for 2021. However, if using a charcoal grill, there are options for a lighter footprint. Red, White & Blue fun.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. My remark had a major impact on the audience,” Crutzen, who died in 2021, recalled years later.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

According to a 2021 estimate from researchers from the University of Chicago , a failure to meet international guidelines for PM 2.5 These particles, which are produced from wildfires and the burning of fossil fuels, can lodge themselves deep into people’s lungs and cause respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological damage.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants: particulate matter (PM), ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. Researchers have found that across the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The website offers countywide information and updates about particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. In March 2021, Oxford City Council was awarded £162,500 to develop an air quality community website to help raise awareness of air pollution across Oxfordshire. and PM10) ozone, and nitrogen dioxide.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. Romanin is one of those working on the problem.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can be found in some products, which damage the ozone layer when released into the environment. With this tip in mind, EcoWatch listed their seven best ecological cleaning products in their 2021 article 7 Best Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products of 2022. Look for certified bio-based cleaning products.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

EEA estimates from 2019 attributed approximately 307,000 premature deaths to fine particulate matter in the 27 EU Member States, with a further 40,400 linked to nitrogen dioxide, and 16,800 to ground-level ozone. and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Air Pollution: A Case for Action Beyond 2021.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Jeff Bezos, center, and the rest of the Blue Origin team arrive for a press conference after flying into space in the New Shepard rocket on July 20, 2021, in Van Horn, Texas. In the 1980s, NASA’s satellite data and computer modeling helped scientists track ozone depletion and global warming. Joe Raedle / Getty Images.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations Shuying Xu Tue, 03/23/2021 – 01:15 As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations Shuying Xu Tue, 03/23/2021 – 01:15 As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

As of 2021, most U.S. In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.” Today is April 20, often known as the unofficial holiday when many people celebrate and enjoy their favorite leafy green, marijuana.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The guidelines also create new standards for peak season ozone — which occurs during the summer months when afternoon light mixes with ground-level volatile compounds — and carbon monoxide, caused by vehicles and machinery. and PM10 — but loosening the standard for sulfur dioxide.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:30. EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice. In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

When hydrogen is combusted for heating, a 2021 paper found that it can create nitrogen oxides (NOx), an air pollutant that is “harmful in its own right and is a precursor to other pollutants of concern such as fine particulate matter and ozone”.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly. The value of exported pellets in the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

The Act follows the model of the most successful environmental treaty - the Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs and HFCs, and is healing the hole in our ozone layer. This must not happen, and the Green Recovery Act ensures it won't. One way or another, the principles of Green Recovery Act will be put into law. It's just a question of when.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The package also included new interim targets requiring manufacturers to cut emissions from new cars by 55 per cent and from new vans by 50 per cent by 2030 compared to 2021 levels, as well as plans for new metrics for measuring the lifecycle emissions of vehicles.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. Carbon accounting provides long-term business viability A 2021 survey reporting 83% of consumers declared that it’s very important for them to buy from a company that operates sustainably. COP26 brought together 120 world leaders and over 40,000 registered participants.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Yosie Mon, 05/24/2021 – 01:30 In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Martin Luther King, Jr. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Yosie Mon, 05/24/2021 – 01:30 In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Martin Luther King, Jr. Protecting at-risk populations.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

This spring, a Dutch court is due to hear Shell’s appeal of a 2021 order to slash the company’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 45 percent by 2030, issued in response to a suit filed by environmental group Milieudefensie. As a minimum statement, therefore, human activities must have contributed to the increase in carbon dioxide and methane.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I 11, 2021, the canister registered an annual average benzene level of 2.1

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

In May 2021, the TCEQ issued a permit to GCGV. By early June, the monitors registered a three-hour spike in ozone levels, which, if sustained over time, Nye said, would exceed federal guidelines. Ozone is an ingredient in smog and a respiratory irritant. The ability to monitor in real time is critical, Hilliard said.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. We the Power is a 2021 documentary on climate change.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:30. International climate finance in the 2021 funding bill. First, it's important to look at what the fiscal year 2021 spending package passed by Congress in December did for international climate funding. Funding for 2021 was one area where the Trump administration and Congress were in full agreement. $32

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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. Between 2016 and 2021, the Texas legislature slashed the TCEQ’s funding by 20 percent, even as it increased the state budget by 16 percent. They gather real-time readings for ozone, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration Joe Thwaites Wed, 02/17/2021 – 00:30 Providing funding to poorer nations to undertake climate action is not only a moral and legal responsibility for developed countries, but also a strategic investment in a cleaner and more resilient world.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021. One of the great things about reducing methane emissions is that you always get large public health and ecosystem benefits as methane is a precursor to surface ozone formation, and that’s toxic to both people and plants,” Shindell said. Credit: NOAA.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021. One of the great things about reducing methane emissions is that you always get large public health and ecosystem benefits as methane is a precursor to surface ozone formation, and that’s toxic to both people and plants,” Shindell said. Credit: NOAA.

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