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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

4 But it isn’t only the developing world that is impacted; the European Environment Agency (EEA) recognizes air pollution as a major cause of premature deaths and diseases, and the single largest environmental health risk in Europe. and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. Accessed 03.03.23

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

Some of these cases have been brought under consumer fraud or protection laws that penalise companies for misrepresenting their products to the public. Soviet Union, Europe, and Australia, and that “civilisation could prove a fragile thing.” and other municipalities across the country. The Washington D.C.-based

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. For a year and a half, Ken worked to shut down all U.S.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. In June of 1988 James E.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The insatiable demand for consumer wood products has been the primary cause of deforestation there, but the growing new demand is for wood pellets that are burned in overseas biomass plants to produce electricity, primarily in Europe. The value of exported pellets in the U.S. I’m 55, and in my lifetime I’ve seen a landscape-level change.”.

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