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?

Pollution 464

Pollution Health Politics Policy 464

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Meanwhile, despite “some rinks add[ing] ordinary salt to the water to keep them from freezing,” Wondergy documents, “most modern rinks now add ethylene glycol.” HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

Global warming 36

Global warming Carbon-negative Microplastics Pollution 36

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.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

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.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

Logging 93

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

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.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

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.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then.

Energy Monitor 93

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more. Credit: Philip Landrigan.

Plastics 97

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Little information about how much farms fertilize is publicly available beyond some documentation from operations raising large numbers of animals, such as several thousand or more pigs. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. It hasn’t done that, either.

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 119