Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

For instance, public health organizations rely on accurate air quality data to decide when to recommend opening windows at nighttime during a heat event, or conversely, when to keep doors and windows closed to maintain clean air during a wildfire smoke event. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. In 2022, the U.S.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Resilience 52

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The conference will appeal to scholars, social activists, business people, and policy makers.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Ozone Biodiversity Policy 52

Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Clouds form and then fade, and molecules like ozone get destroyed by chemical processes within months. (In It’s tough to pin down the meaning of all this chemistry.

Carbon 104

Carbon Carbon-neutral Aviation Energy Monitor 104

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A carbon footprint is defined as a measure of the total GHG emissions caused directly or indirectly by a person, organization, product, or service. E.g. Organizations may account for the carbon footprint of a given product or service, which would contribute to but be different from the carbon footprint of the business as a whole. .

Carbon 78

Carbon Global warming Carbon-neutral Organic 78

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly. The FTC considers these terms deceptive if a product has any substance, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), known to erode the ozone layer. Expect 'ozone-friendly' to be under scrutiny as the next Green Guides are developed, as the FTC recently flagged the term. Recyclable.

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Now, the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest in science, policy, and practice. The nine planetary Boundaries are: Stratospheric ozone: filters ultraviolet rays (UVR) coming from the sun, which would otherwise place the system is at risk.

Biodiversity 53

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Resilience Real Estate 53

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

Pollution 469

Pollution Health Politics Policy 469

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.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

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.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

Step 6: Implement the plan, establish and communicate new policies and practices. They should consider processes, materials, people, policies and projects related to energy, waste, buildings, products, packaging, supply chain, transportation, food, water, community and employee well being. Do we communicate policies company-wide?

Business Energy Monitoring 128

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 128

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 97

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. As a consequence of this and other studies, several countries and organizations began to look into the problem.

Methane 100

Methane Organic Transportation Ozone 100

GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

From a food security perspective, farmers can harness soil organic matter to ensure greater productivity of their fields and reduce erosion and improve soil structure, which leads to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters. Furthermore, diseases are spreading quickly due to climate change and expanding global trade.

Soil 286

Soil Agriculture Health Meat alternatives 286

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.

Logging 94

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 94

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

From a food security perspective, farmers can harness soil organic matter to ensure greater productivity of their fields and reduce erosion and improve soil structure, which leads to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters. Furthermore, diseases are spreading quickly due to climate change and expanding global trade.

Soil 28

Soil Agriculture Health Investment 28

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.

Plastics 97

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A wide range of organizations and individuals are successfully turning to the courts to oppose the recklessness of this administration. Delayed a compliance deadline for new national ozone pollution standards by one year, but later reversed course. Suspended an effort to lift restrictions on mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Ozone Policy Climate change 98

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, runs the all-volunteer Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

Agriculture 120

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 120

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. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

Climate change 40

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The Democrat-controlled Harris County Commissioners Court — which oversees a multibillion-dollar budget and sets policies for everything from public health to law enforcement — gave the county’s Pollution Control department $5.9

Energy Monitor 90

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

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. It delivers funding through a diverse range of more than 100 organizations , from major U.S. Policy & Politics. Pull Quote.

Fossil fuels 385

Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 385

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. It delivers funding through a diverse range of more than 100 organizations , from major U.S. Pull Quote It is time for the U.S.

Fossil fuels 28

Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 28

Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The fossil fuel industry spends millions every year helping the same politicians that are in charge of climate change policy get into congress. In particular Exxon Mobile pioneered research in climate change, and then began funding front organizations such as the Global Climate Coalition to deny the information they themselves had discovered.

Climate change 52

Climate change Government Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 52