Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

On a micro level, the platform can identify daily ‘incidents’ which occur on one street but not another, and extreme pollution differences in time, shown in rush hour NO2. Friday, 17 June, the hottest day of the year so far, saw unhealthy levels of Ozone across the Borough.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For decades, scientists have closely observed the ozone layer , which protects Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Ozone is created in our atmosphere when the sun’s high-energy UV rays rupture the stable covalent bonds of atmospheric oxygen (O2) molecules, transforming them into free radicals.

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

When people are asked to explain climate change, many think it has something to do with the hole in the ozone layer. Marshall says, “More than four in 10 Americans think the ozone hole actually causes global warming. And so many of them remember and understand so much about ozone depletion. Why is that? But there's good news.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution. Lessens Environmental Pollution. Pollution is one of the current environmental problems tormenting the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“It is critical to know when, where and how much methane is emitted from each of its sources in order to prioritize emission reductions,” said Denise Mauzerall , a co-author and core faculty member of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. “We

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

International consensus on cross-border environmental issues has been difficult to achieve, but the 40-year-old Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (or LRTAP as it is known to development professionals) has enjoyed great, if largely unsung, success in the fight against air. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Air pollution could soar this winter as gas boilers are cranked up at homes across the country by the UK's expanded army of home workers, the Energy and Climate Change Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has today warned. sources of these harmful pollutants from within our homes. There's less awareness however of alternative ?sources

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EDF + Business

JUNE 24, 2021

For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. Methane is indirectly affecting agricultural productivity through climate change and ozone pollution , which is known to harm ecosystems and plants.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants: particulate matter (PM), ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al., Model results published by Marlier et al.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The fund, which is available to six million customers, instead aims to invest in companies that deliver products and services that make a positive impact on the environment, and in firms making a difference through progressive policies, it said. Responsible investing enables investors to seize new opportunities and manage risk," she added. "By

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In turn, the rankings provide insight on air quality safety that can helpfully instruct a city’s policy makers, infrastructure management and governmental direction. national parks have polluted air According to the 2019 Fitness Index, these are the 10 worst metropolitan areas with bad air quality, or air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In turn, the rankings provide insight on air quality safety that can helpfully instruct a city’s policy makers, infrastructure management and governmental direction. national parks have polluted air According to the 2019 Fitness Index, these are the 10 worst metropolitan areas with bad air quality, or air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The state has set targets of 1,500 MW of storage by 2025 and 3,000 MW by 2030, and it has created a set of policies including incentives for storage developers and procurement requirements for its biggest utilities. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8 A battery business case geared toward a renewables-rich future.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Support for efforts to slash methane emissions over the next decade is growing, with around 150 governments now signed up to a global UN-backed pledge to tackle the potent climate pollutant, it was announced at COP27 in Egypt this afternoon.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

However, not all states have NEM policies, and these policies vary by state. But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. Pollution is so bad in some parts of the world that people are instructed to stay indoors.

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change represents a major public health emergency, but its destructive and expensive toll on Americans’ health has largely been absent from the climate policy debate,” stated Dr. Vijay Limaye, lead author and NRDC scientist. As climate change exacerbates, costs will continue to rise.

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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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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).

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Also, mining is a significant air pollutant, releasing Ozone and ~4.5Gt of CO 2e each year. Your procurement department can put in green purchasing policies. Read this article by Green Business Bureau, What Is A Green Procurement Policy , for a guide to creating a sustainable supply chain.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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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.

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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. How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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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

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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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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).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

When hydrogen is combusted for heating, a 2021 paper found that it can create nitrogen oxides (NOx), an air pollutant that is “harmful in its own right and is a precursor to other pollutants of concern such as fine particulate matter and ozone”. This will require clear policy direction.” ‘One-sided’

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Air pollution kills 40,000 in the UK each year. This means, when businesses buy fossil fuel motors, they are polluting and losing money. This means that British pensioners (as well as being most vulnerable to air pollution) are becoming poorer every day that we don't divest completely. That makes no sense.

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Grist

AUGUST 15, 2019

Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe. In the 1980s, scientists found a “ hole ” in the ozone layer — really just a large section that was getting precariously thin — caused by the use of potent chemicals called CFCs. In fact, we already have.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The deal finalises one of the key planks of the EU's sweeping Green Deal programme, making it the first of Brussel's 'Fit for 55' policy packages designed to cut emissions 55 per cent by 2030 to be appoved by both the European Parliament and the Council of member states.

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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.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Eight emission events in six months, according to Neal Carman, a former Texas air pollution investigator who now works for the Sierra Club, doesn’t bode well for those who live near the plant. Dr. Philip Landrigan, professor of biology and director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College.

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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.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I was on the Clean Air Act Regulatory Negotiation team establishing the original clean fuel programs that morphed into the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), an adviser to the Senate committee establishing the RFS, and countless state and local air pollution commissions.

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