DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

In Colorado, fossil fuel interests are vigorously opposing legislative bills meant to clean up the state’s heavily polluted air. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024. Instead, several have retained fossil fuel lobbyists to work on their behalf. How can they do both effectively?” she said. “I

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Countries are obligated to report their greenhouse gas emissions to international bodies such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but recent studies suggest that the current methods for calculating methane emissions rely on outdated and incomplete information and may not accurately represent actual emissions.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. But with the NRDC-UCSF findings, links can now be established correlating health data with climate change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Air quality plays a significant role with health and sustainable living. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recognizes this, which is why for the 2019 American Fitness Index rankings, the ACSM added air quality as an environmental indicator of a city’s health. This type of monitoring can inform agencies, such as the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Air quality plays a significant role with health and sustainable living. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recognizes this, which is why for the 2019 American Fitness Index rankings, the ACSM added air quality as an environmental indicator of a city’s health. This type of monitoring can inform agencies, such as the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2022

Alerting PRThe development means the likes of local authorities, construction site managers, and transport professionals will be able to rapidly respond to high concentrations of air pollution. Users will also be able to generate warnings for episodes that last over 15 minutes, 30 minutes and one hour.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The website offers countywide information and updates about particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. The website ( www.oxonair.uk ) aims to integrate all relevant air quality-related information from all district councils in Oxfordshire under one single platform. and PM10) ozone, and nitrogen dioxide.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. While there are often limited studies on marijuana due to legal complications, we do have some information on the crop’s water demands. ” These VOCs not only spell trouble for the environment but for human health, too.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

For more information, the city of Folsom has developed a waste management guide that includes valuable information on the processes of recycling and the collection of waste at events. Many commercial chemical cleaning products pollute our environment with harmful, fossil-fuel-derived chemicals that can wash into water courses.

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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. Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2021

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong. Click here to watch the GoodShipping explanation video.

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Still, Serna held out hope that the news that night might be positive — that maybe, just maybe, the pollution wasn’t as bad as the odors let on.

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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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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Nevertheless, CO2 emissions are expected to drop up to 10% in 2020, according to a projection by the Energy Information Administration. The Trump Administration has also refused to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter and ozone.

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