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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

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. Environmental capacity.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. In January, Earthjustice and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law submitted a civil rights complaint to the EPA on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of St.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? What are the characteristics of systemic environmental racism?

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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Document opportunities and learnings for the next event and track your progress. For instance, GBB member, the Doyle Group , has tried to move away from printing and paper waste by using online document storage and communication platforms. Provide wastewater containers to vendors and dispose of contents appropriately.

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The quest for cleaner air

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).

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

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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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

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 arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. I use a nebulizer now.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

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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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Styrene is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and can cause problems such as memory loss, confusion and slowed reflexes, even at low levels. were among the top emitters of at least seven toxic substances documented by the TRI.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

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. Though the bay’s health is far from perfect, and agriculture nutrients remain a challenge , progress accelerated after the U.S. It hasn’t done that, either.

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In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. 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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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails

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