Remove Law Remove Ozone Remove Pollution Remove Reference
article thumbnail

Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Additionally, from an economic perspective, according to yahoo finance (2022), if we use one barrel of oil as a reference price, which was $110.48 Many commercial chemical cleaning products pollute our environment with harmful, fossil-fuel-derived chemicals that can wash into water courses. With this in mind, check out EchoBarrier.

article thumbnail

The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com). Centuries on, sources of airborne pollution are only becoming more numerous and wide ranging.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

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
article thumbnail

New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

. “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.”

article thumbnail

As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

DeSmogBlog

Richardson referred questions about the events to a spokesperson for Exxon Mobil, the day-to-day operator of the facility. 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.”.

article thumbnail

A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

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%.

article thumbnail

Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

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.