Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2019

They have been well documented in causing respiratory and eye damage to those experiencing long-term exposure, along with less serious side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and nausea. VOCs have a variety of adverse environmental and health effects. These adverse health impacts affect not only your employees, but also customers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Support for efforts to slash methane emissions over the next decade is growing, with around 150 governments now signed up to a global UN-backed pledge to tackle the potent climate pollutant, it was announced at COP27 in Egypt this afternoon.

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Methane Global warming Pollution Ozone 44

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens.

Pollution 472

Pollution Health Politics Policy 472

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. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

John the Baptist Parish have a lifetime risk of cancer from air pollution that is 800 times higher than the national average. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Lydia Gerard, one of the founding members of the Concerned Citizens of St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Health 213

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, contemporary ice-making and maintenance technologies consume large amounts of energy and produce refrigerant gases that cause pollution , making them environmentally harmful. CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Traditional ice rinks have noise, energy waste and pollution costs.

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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. In 2010, the Central Government of China integrated the “Guideline on Strengthening Joint Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution to Improve Air Quality” into its 12th Five Year Plan.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

“There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting to do so,” as one recent Heartland document succinctly put it. ” More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco.

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Climate change Global warming Pollution Ozone 36

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

Part 2: Goals and KPIs – This section documents your current baseline in terms of your eco profile which includes your energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and overall eco score. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Pollution Prevention & Water Stewardship. Are we composting food waste?

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 128

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Scottish Forestry has documented that a healthy forest “is also fundamental to good water quality.” The additional benefits from woodlands include providing the natural environs for people to decompress for restorative wellness and absorbing pollutants (ammonia, nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxide) to clean the air.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. This practice should extend to those residing in geographic zones of disproportionate pollution burdens.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

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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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

They highlight the “white male effect,” a well-documented phenomenon of white men showing significantly less aversion to perceived risk than any other demographic group. Studies on industrial and water contamination , air pollution , and other environmental concerns have since backed it up. But even that is problematic. “We

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Ozone Government Technology Global warming 76

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. ” Cover of the 1987 internal Shell publication “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.” The Washington D.C.-based

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Ozone 140

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 85

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

were among the top emitters of at least seven toxic substances documented by the TRI. 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. Pollution from plastic production in the U.S.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 96

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 116

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

As the chief toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state environmental protection agency, Honeycutt had developed a reputation for holding fringe views on air pollution. 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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Health Ozone Building Energy Monitoring Law 98