AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The study findings show that, over the course of 10 climate-sensitive events from the year 2012, Americans endured more than $10 billion in healthcare costs. Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.”

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Climate change Health Pollution Ozone 28

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly. The value of exported pellets in the U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 96

Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. The bartender, Kevin Costner, says he used to be scared, too — until he started doing something about it. I recycle these.”

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Earth Day 144

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell’s emphasis on scientific uncertainty was evident again two years later, in September 1992, when the company’s Group Planning department published a “ Business Environment Occasional Paper ” on the “Potential Augmented Greenhouse Effect, & Depletion of the Ozone Layer.”

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Fossil fuels Climate change Pollution Ozone 139

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

There’s simply too much manure now concentrated in small areas, environmental advocates argue — a problem the EPA noted in a 2012 report about the water-quality consequences of “the industrialization of livestock production in the U.S.”. Officials are considering proposals to build sites for nearly 30,000 additional hogs.

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Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 130

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The visits were usually brief, according to four TCEQ reports filed between March 2011 and October 2012. On June 13, 2012, two investigators spent 15 minutes outside K-Solv. 1, 2012, an investigator spent three minutes outside K-Solv. On March 16, 2011, an investigator spent seven minutes outside K-Solv.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 106

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. They gather real-time readings for ozone, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Maricela Serna, the tax preparer with a monitor on top of her office, had a malignant tumor removed from her ovaries in 2012.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT. For example, the solar industry employs a quarter million people, a number that's doubled since 2012 given the industry's growth.

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Fossil fuels Investment Ozone Transportation 246