GreenBiz

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).

Pollution 473

Pollution Health Politics Policy 473

Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Many commercial chemical cleaning products pollute our environment with harmful, fossil-fuel-derived chemicals that can wash into water courses. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can be found in some products, which damage the ozone layer when released into the environment. Sustainability and eco-friendly event planning guide.

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Sustainability Waste Waste Recycling 147

Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Air pollution kills 40,000 in the UK each year. The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. This means, when businesses buy fossil fuel motors, they are polluting and losing money. One way or another, the principles of Green Recovery Act will be put into law.

Fossil fuels 64

Fossil fuels Law Pollution Ozone 64

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.

Logging 94

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 94

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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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

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.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

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).

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

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).

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “It is feared that a further rise in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could lead to a higher average surface temperature on Earth, which could have far-reaching environmental, social and economic consequences,” wrote the authors of a 1987 internal Shell publication entitled “Air Pollution: an Oil Industry Perspective.”

Fossil fuels 143

Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Ozone 143

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

We operate under a stringent state and federal regulatory system, and report emissions to the EPA and TCEQ in a consistent and timely manner in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations and permits.”. Pollution from plastic production in the U.S. When you’re breathing this stuff,” he said, “it’s microscopic, less than 2.5

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

Energy Monitor 98

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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.

Climate change 147

Climate change Sustainability Fossil fuels Law 147

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.

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 119

Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

Air pollution can cause heart and lung disease, which makes coronavirus more deadly. But in the midst of this unprecedented public health crisis, the Trump Administration is rolling back public health protections that keep us safe from air pollution.

Pollution 52

Pollution Ozone Health Climate change 52

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. Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? In June of 1988 James E.

Climate change 40

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 14, 2022

Unsurprisingly, California and other states sued to stop the revocation. “Whether the EPA’s reissuance of the California’s 2013 Clean Air Act waiver is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law because EPA failed to consider whether its actions is consistent with the equal-sovereignty doctrine.”.

Climate change 40

Climate change Ozone Law Health 40

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.

Energy Monitor 90

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 90

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

Health 103

Health Ozone Building Energy Monitoring Law 103

Green Market Oracle

JULY 8, 2020

During this time we made significant progress on a number of environmental fronts including asbestos, acid rain, DDT, open-air nuclear tests, endangered species, toxic waste, waste recycling, leaded gasoline, ozone, pollution, mercury emissions and SLCPs.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Ozone Logging Global warming 98

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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Ozone Law Fossil fuels Pollution 0