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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. Policy & Politics.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Protecting at-risk populations.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Protecting at-risk populations.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Protecting at-risk populations.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

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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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals

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. Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.

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In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, Honeycutt questioned the Obama EPA’s strengthening of smog regulations, making the argument — contrary to scientific evidence — that reducing ozone levels would result in negligible health benefits in part because most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors. Now that fight is before a state court judge.

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Why are governments failing to act on climate change?

Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Phil Sharp, Former RFF President has said, “The American people seem far more unified than our political leadership on the need to address climate change. The fossil fuel industry spends millions every year helping the same politicians that are in charge of climate change policy get into congress. It’s true. In fact, George H.W.

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EPA Halts Efforts to Clean Up Unsafe Levels of Ozone Smog

CleanTechnica

JANUARY 6, 2021

In defiance of science and the law, EPA attempts to halt 50 years of progress delivered by the Clean Air Act.

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Rising To The Challenge 5 Years After Paris Climate Agreement

CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 12, 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement.

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