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WHO values are insufficient, say developers of European map of aerosol pollution

Envirotec Magazine

They have, they say, determined the major sources of organic aerosols – stemming both from natural and from anthropogenic sources – and their variations over the course of days, months and seasons. This would make it possible to directly measure the effectiveness of measures taken to reduce aerosol pollution,” says Chen.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

"There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest.

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The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

Grist

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. This particular power station was supposed to be special — a carbon-neutral facility.

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“The poop doesn’t lie”

Envirotec Magazine

Pepper is also the director of the Water & Energy Sustainable Technology Center (WEST), a group which made headlines worldwide last summer for its success in identifying infected students at the University of Arizona. His job was to use WBE to monitor dormitories for early detection of infection among the students. Scaling up.