Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. By 2014, it had landed in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

To understand more about emissions from cannabis growth, let’s look at what happened in Colorado after the state began allowing the sale of recreational cannabis in 2014. In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to "residential/industrial.". EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.” EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Protecting at-risk populations.

Pollution 28

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the noxious goo that cut off about 500,000 Toledo-area residents from their tap water for three days in 2014 and made at least 110 people ill. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Article continues below. More in this series. Fertilizer is a major pollutant.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. 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.

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