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. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al., Researchers have found that across the U.S., Model results published by Marlier et al.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

According to the Mid-America Regional Council, local air quality is compromised whenever chemicals are ignited, and this in turn contributes to pollution. Of all those options, the charcoal grill produces the most CO2 and contributes more to ground-level ozone. Rethink fireworks. Red, White & Blue fun.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Global Witness concluded using public data that despite capturing five million tonnes of CO2 from 2015 to 2021, Quest released a further 7.5 It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The website offers countywide information and updates about particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. The launch of the joint website demonstrates each Council’s commitment to tackling air pollution across the county, said the announcement. and PM10) ozone, and nitrogen dioxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

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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. From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. ” Pollution and emissions According to data from Grist , many “indoor growers plug into the grid, and about two-thirds of the electricity on the grid is generated by fossil fuels.”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. 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.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Many commercial chemical cleaning products pollute our environment with harmful, fossil-fuel-derived chemicals that can wash into water courses. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can be found in some products, which damage the ozone layer when released into the environment. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide.

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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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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. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens. Martin Luther King, Jr. What business practices should change?

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, or WHO, published an update to its air quality guidelines — the international rubric that sets non-binding standards for safe levels of air pollution for the world’s countries. It sets higher standards for almost every pollutant the organization monitors. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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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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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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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Air pollution kills 40,000 in the UK each year. This means, when businesses buy fossil fuel motors, they are polluting and losing money. This means that British pensioners (as well as being most vulnerable to air pollution) are becoming poorer every day that we don't divest completely. That makes no sense.

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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. What business practices should change?

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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. What business practices should change?

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Eight emission events in six months, according to Neal Carman, a former Texas air pollution investigator who now works for the Sierra Club, doesn’t bode well for those who live near the plant. Dr. Philip Landrigan, professor of biology and director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

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 Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021. Shindell added that the good news is that there are multiple benefits to addressing methane pollution. million years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

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 Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021. Shindell added that the good news is that there are multiple benefits to addressing methane pollution. million years.

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