AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

William Vizuete, associate professor at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health, investigated this issue, and “his research showed that cannabis plants produce volatile organic compounds or VOCs that can produce harmful pollutants,” journalist Jodi Helmer reports in the article.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Around 70 million barrels of hydrocarbons are lost yearly due to evaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during loading, storage and transportation of crude oil on ships. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. Further, VOC emissions can harm the environment and human health. billion USD annually.

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Methane Organic Transportation Ozone 100

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Duane Levine gives a presentation to the company’s board of directors where he’s comparing what governments did with these chemicals called CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, with what might happen to fossil fuels when governments start to focus on climate change. View on DocumentCloud. The gloves are coming off.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 97

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. I use a nebulizer now.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. 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.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 95

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more. Credit: Philip Landrigan.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, giving a presentation in August to retired locals at the West Toledo YMCA, reminded them that this happened five years earlier “and some people” — he meant state officials — “are still looking for solutions.”. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie.

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Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 119

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. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 88