Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

These gases can directly damage crop cells and indirectly affect them through their role as precursors to formation of ozone, an airborne toxin known to reduce crop yields, and particulate matter aerosols that can absorb and scatter sunlight away from crops. Nitrogen oxides, or NOx, are among the most widely emitted pollutants in the world.

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Pollution Ozone Agriculture Energy Monitor 130

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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Health Pollution Education Ozone 145

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Air quality plays a significant role with health and sustainable living. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recognizes this, which is why for the 2019 American Fitness Index rankings, the ACSM added air quality as an environmental indicator of a city’s health. with the worst air quality. Related: Almost all U.S.

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Ozone Pollution Medicine Health 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Air quality plays a significant role with health and sustainable living. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recognizes this, which is why for the 2019 American Fitness Index rankings, the ACSM added air quality as an environmental indicator of a city’s health. with the worst air quality. Related: Almost all U.S.

Energy Monitor 28

Energy Monitor Ozone Pollution Building Energy Monitoring 28

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. Workers sort plastic on the curbside-recyclables processing line at the Green Waste material recovery facility in San Jose, California, in 2019.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Earth Day 145

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is requesting stakeholder feedback on the discussion draft rule by December 6, 2019. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is requesting stakeholder feedback on the discussion draft rule by December 6, 2019. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Resilience 52

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2

Pollution 430

Pollution Health Politics Policy 430

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Debra David, a 64-year-old homemaker turned activist, lives three miles from an Enviva mill in Hamlet, NC, which commenced operations in 2019 — the year, as it happens, that David started having trouble breathing. They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

AGreenLiving

JULY 3, 2020

Besides its ability to reduce environmental pollution, the new AI-based bioreactor also improves health. Terrestrial radiation, which is supposed to be absorbed by the ozone layer, is also retained in the atmosphere. For instance, deforestation of Amazon increased by 34% in 2019. feet by 2050 due to melting glaciers.

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Climate change Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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Soil Agriculture Health Investment 28

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Robert Taylor and Sharon Lavigne with Pat Bryant protesting in front of the Louisiana State Capitol on June 3, 2019. The complaint calls out the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and Louisiana Department of Health (LDOH) for their handling of air pollution and associated health impacts in St. John the Baptist.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2

Health 28

Health Pollution Politics Policy 28

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In addition, in 2019 the UK introduced the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) standard which makes it mandatory for large companies operating in the UK to annually report their energy and carbon emissions. In addition, a 2018-2019 Fortune 500 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report calculated that the F500 was responsible for 13.34

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

By the end of 2019, Aramco would go through with a far more limited IPO, in which 1.5% Styrene is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and can cause problems such as memory loss, confusion and slowed reflexes, even at low levels.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

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. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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

Grist

AUGUST 15, 2019

Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe. In the 1980s, scientists found a “ hole ” in the ozone layer — really just a large section that was getting precariously thin — caused by the use of potent chemicals called CFCs. In fact, we already have.

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Ozone Pollution Climate change Health 74

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

They killed dozens of dolphins and hurt tourist-dependent businesses in Florida over a 16-month stretch that finally ended in February 2019. Though the bay’s health is far from perfect, and agriculture nutrients remain a challenge , progress accelerated after the U.S. In rare cases , they’ve killed people shortly after contact.

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Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 134

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 14, 2022

Specifically: (1) The Administrator shall … waive application of this section to [California] …, if the State determines that the State standards will be, in the aggregate, at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable Federal standards. No such waiver shall be granted if the Administrator finds that—. (A)

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Climate change Ozone Law Health 40

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In March 2019 the courts blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to expand offshore drilling in Alaska and off the northeastern coast. Last August 22 states launched a lawsuit suing the Trump administration over its failure to act on climate change and associated adverse health impacts. Interior Department.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Policy Climate change 98

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. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 100

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

ppb rise in 2019. In addition to slowing the rate of warming, cutting methane also reduces negative health impacts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 The data is an ominous sign that the world is badly off track in terms of reaching its climate goals.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 141

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

ppb rise in 2019. In addition to slowing the rate of warming, cutting methane also reduces negative health impacts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that global methane concentrations shot up by 14.67 The data is an ominous sign that the world is badly off track in terms of reaching its climate goals.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 90

Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Water Pollution In April, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief Andrew Wheeler said safe drinking water, plastic pollution and other litter in the oceans, drought in western states and water infrastructure are "the largest and most immediate environmental and public health issues affecting the world right now."

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Methane 52