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”. That’s bad for tackling fuel poverty and bad for the climate,” he said.

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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

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? EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards.

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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? EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards.

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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%.

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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. Nowhere do I call for restricting ethanol.

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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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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. Length: 1 hour 37 minutes. 8: Generation Green New Deal.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Levels of smog and other short-lived climate pollutants (remember HFCs?) 
 The good news: There’s a long track record of international cooperation to get these harmful pollutants in check. The challenge: finding the political will to eliminate them entirely. Short-Lived Climate Pollutants.

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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

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Over time, if something turns out to be terrible for society, it becomes the target of widespread popular and/or political wrath and it is severely curtailed or limited. Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT. Wind energy is already on track to supply 20 percent of electricity in the U.S.

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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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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 3, 2021

The news that Tesla has reached its goal of producing 500,000 electric vehicles is not only great for investors (such as me, even though I have a tiny, tiny stake), but also for those who don't even know anything about the company. It is good news for anyone and any animal that has a pair of lungs.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 15, 2020

While social distancing is slowing the spread of COVID-19, it’s also significantly reducing air pollutant and greenhouse gas levels across the state. Residents from San Diego to Sacramento are seeing clearer skies and breathing cleaner air, even in the center of cities that rarely experience a noticeable reduction in air pollution.

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