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The Perils of Neglecting Flue Gas Cleaning Systems: Understanding the Risks

The Environmental Blog

While flue gas is used across various industries, from petrochemical to manufacturing, power generation, and automobile industries, governments have erected environmental laws to ensure the production and distribution processes are safe for the environment. Climate Change Carbon dioxide and methane contribute to global warming.

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The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming

Grist

But climate modelers calculate that while they are there, they fend off as much as a third of greenhouse warming. Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. Met Office. The climatic repercussions of this are not unexpected.

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Congressman: DOJ Investigation of Big Oil Is Now “Even More Urgent” Following Shell Revelations

DeSmogBlog

Department of Justice to investigate whether Shell and other Big Oil companies’ “alleged campaigns of climate deception” may have violated federal law. Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” warned Shell executive Ged Davis in one newly uncovered document from 1989.

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Meat Industry Using ‘Misinformation’ to Block Dietary Change, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets.

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In D.C. Defamation Trial, Climatologist Michael Mann Confronts the Climate Deniers Who Maligned His Work

DeSmogBlog

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health. On Monday, former Minnesota GOP Rep.

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Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns Joins Board of Climate Science Denial Group

DeSmogBlog

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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How air pollution delayed a surge in extreme rain

Grist

Efforts like these took aim at pollutants like the group of chemicals known as aerosols, which include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other compounds that are harmful to human health. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods.

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