DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Weld County, a 4,000-square-mile area northeast of Denver, this year received failing air quality grades for ozone and particulate matter — pollutants linked to fossil fuel extraction — from the American Lung Association. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024. How can they do both effectively?” she said.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. Rupa Basu poses for a photo while pregnant with her second child in June 2007. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 121

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting. In addition, several states have their own more demanding legislation in place, such as California’s and Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 123

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. Finally, an agency commission charged with deciding whether to declare the watersheds in distress tabled the measure despite hearing from scientists on the panel that phosphorus levels were not improving and public health required more action.

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