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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation.

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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

As industry is one of the biggest drivers of global climate change and is entirely dependent on the earth’s resources for production, it is important for business leaders and employees to understand the Anthropocene, its implications, and what it means for the future of sustainability and industry. . The Holocene.

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Air Regulators Tackle Trucking at Southern California Warehouses

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The WAIRE Program applies to warehouses with more than 100,000 square feet of warehouse space in a single building, and will phase in over three years based on warehouse size, with the largest warehouses (i.e., SCAQMD estimates that the ISR will impose total annual average costs on the industry of $0–$670 million per year, or $0.00–$0.83

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The Overview Effect

Grist

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” Some warned that NASA’s technology was polluting the Earth with rocket exhaust and industrial manufacturing. NASA / Joel Kowsky.

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