DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Researchers, including Basu, had already documented the impacts of air pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes. As temperatures rise, so does drought and air pollution, which also increases the risk of preterm birth or low birthweight babies. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority. The authors are Stuart Riddick (Colorado State University) and Denise Mauzerall (Princeton University).

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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. In 2022, the U.S. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al., million to address monitoring disparities.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways, such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO 2 and producing oxygen.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Under the contract announced Wednesday , developer 174 Power Global will build the battery system, and Con Edison will bid its power into New York wholesale energy markets for seven years after it starts operations in 2022. After that, 174 Power will take over the battery system’s operations and wholesale market value.

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The City Fix

MAY 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2023 with new findings from WRI’s dataset tracking electric school bus adoption in the United States, covering October to December 2022. To the best of our knowledge, these statistics are updated as of Dec.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

It was established as part of the RePower EU strategy, which was adopted in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine to help wean the continent off Russian gas. It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Additionally, from an economic perspective, according to yahoo finance (2022), if we use one barrel of oil as a reference price, which was $110.48 on the 17th June 2022, we will see that transportation costs have increased substantially in the last year. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James Black History event on February 2, 2022. Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022. John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Sharon Lavigne at a RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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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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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. Some warned that NASA’s technology was polluting the Earth with rocket exhaust and industrial manufacturing. Sending everyone into orbit clearly isn’t an option. “It

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Forty-five per cent of Americans want to be viewed as eco-friendly consumers, according to the results in September of an unpublished 2022 Eco Pulse study from Shelton Group. "In Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly. Who said your product didn't or couldn't possibly chemically harm a person or an ecosystem? Recyclable.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene.

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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

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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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

The compromise was hailed as a “grand bargain” that balanced industry priorities with the need for environmental reforms in a state with mounting air pollution woes. Ground-level ozone — the key component in smog — results when certain pollutants react with sunlight.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The White House enjoyed a surprise breakthrough earlier this year when it secured bipartisan backing for the Kigali Amendment, which requires signatories to phase out HFCs alongside the ozone-destroying CFCs that were covered by the original Montral Protocol. billion tons of carbon dioxide being emitted between 2022 and 2050.

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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 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 14, 2022

On March 14, 2022, EPA rescinded its 2019 waiver withdrawal and established a new standard for revisiting approved waiver determinations. On May 13, 2022, another group also filed a petition for review of EPA’s final rule regarding California’s authority to set GHG and Zero Emissions Standards vehicle emission standards.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. UN energy summit sees $400bn new backing committed to clean energy. Egypt considering bid to host COP27.

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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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