The Environmental Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Emerging Contaminants : Pharmaceuticals and microplastics present new challenges. The primary objective is to remove impurities, including bacteria, viruses, chemicals, heavy metals, and other pollutants, to ensure the water is safe for consumption and use.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 28, 2020

We all know about our present world Pandemic situation and many people died thousands are still sufferings and others are indirectly threatened by COVID 19 virus. But do you think Our Environment is recovering itself in this time and people cannot pollute their environment?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An emerging class of personal air quality monitoring devices fills a need for people who care about pollution exposure in their immediate vicinity. The on-board hardware includes relatively simple MEMS semiconductor sensors, of a kind that have been developed principally for the detection of pollution from automobile exhausts.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

A new method for clearing organic pollutants from wastewater uses hydrogel granules made from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), which function as a biological carrier for microorganism cultures. The granules function by decomposing the pollutants in question – a treatment method said to work up to five times faster than conventional approaches.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

For example, in 2015, the UK’s Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) reviewed the available evidence and concluded: “Studies have shown associations of NO2 in outdoor air with adverse effects on health, including reduced life expectancy. Ozonator design. NOx measurement in product development. NO2 converter.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO2 and producing oxygen.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways, such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO 2 and producing oxygen.

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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

These deniers accept that humanity’s pollution has disrupted a fundamental, complex and awesomely powerful planetary system with a history of violent shifts, yet they express complete confidence that the global changes we are inadvertently unleashing will be harmless, even beneficial.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Though industry presents blue hydrogen as a viable “low-carbon” climate solution, a litany of technical, environmental, and economic challenges continue to plague CCS projects around the world. EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson has since stated that she intends to present more developed definitions before her mandate ends this autumn.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Grid reliability is also the core use case for Con Edison’s 2 MW battery at Ozone Park in Queens and for a 1 MW demonstration project with Shell/GI Energy in Staten Island. A battery business case geared toward a renewables-rich future.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and one of the main stratospheric ozone depleting substances on the planet. IIASA contributed N2O emission inventory data from the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model, including those from industrial processes needed for data alignment.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. COVID-19 has not changed the world but it has revealed deep flaws in our present. As an economist, Steiner says these numbers don’t add up.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health. In recent years, the effects of vehicular air pollution on human health have become better understood, and received greater political and media attention. New market example: cannabis cultivation. A car park installation.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

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.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . The Anthropocene.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. ” Pollution and emissions According to data from Grist , many “indoor growers plug into the grid, and about two-thirds of the electricity on the grid is generated by fossil fuels.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, contemporary ice-making and maintenance technologies consume large amounts of energy and produce refrigerant gases that cause pollution , making them environmentally harmful. Which refrigerant gases are linked to present-day ice rinks? CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Also, mining is a significant air pollutant, releasing Ozone and ~4.5Gt of CO 2e each year. A possible solution is to reclaim and reuse rare earth metals present in products that have reached the end of their useful life. Rare earth mining also produces toxic waste , which seeps into groundwater systems.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, or WHO, published an update to its air quality guidelines — the international rubric that sets non-binding standards for safe levels of air pollution for the world’s countries. It sets higher standards for almost every pollutant the organization monitors. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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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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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

These deniers accept that humanity’s pollution has disrupted a fundamental, complex and awesomely powerful planetary system with a history of violent shifts, yet they express complete confidence that the global changes we are inadvertently unleashing will be harmless, even beneficial.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

The risk therefore increases significantly with the number of people present and the length of time they stay in the room. Although it is known that UV-C light destroys the SARS-CoV-2 viruses, it ultimately increases indoor ozone concentrations,” 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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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”. All of these companies have advocated for the use of hydrogen in heating.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

They presented their plans to the public at the British Science Festival in the fall of 2011 — and triggered a “ fiasco,” as an editorial in the journal Nature described it. Studies on industrial and water contamination , air pollution , and other environmental concerns have since backed it up. government to cancel the trial.

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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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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. The documentary does close on a happier note, presenting green changes happening today, such as human diet changes – eating less meat – and government intervention reversing deforestation in Costa Rica. 6: Kiss the Ground.

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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

We were both satisfied that the conversation fairly presents our respective positions, as well as the objections to those positions. Doug wrote and asked for an opportunity to clarify several points, and to challenge some of my arguments. I agreed, so we conducted a back and forth debate covering several topics.

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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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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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