Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

CFCs have a high chlorine content and have been linked strongly to ozone depletion and global warming. HCFCs were considered an improvement when they were first introduced, as they have lower chlorine and make a lesser contribution to ozone depletion and global warming. It is also abundant and can be made from renewable energy.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. Virtually every tire manufacturer is making at least token efforts to increase the usage of sustainable materials like guayule.

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Building Energy Monitoring North America Energy Monitor Sustainability 132

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. 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. 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

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. 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. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Made with renewable energy. A company that uses fossil fuel-based energy shouldn't make this claim unless it buys renewable energy credits (RECs), the FTC says. If your factory runs on 40 per cent wind power, say so specifically, the agency advises. Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly. What does that even mean?

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Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Exxon completes an “Atmospheric CO2 Scoping Study,” which concludes that reducing fossil fuel use through efficiency and renewable energy is the only foreseeable option. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. One of them is called “Energy in Depth.”

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Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 98

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). For instance, in 2007 Australia introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) to set mandatory emission reporting. ppm in 2020.

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Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Back in the fall of 2020, RISE. James protest march in Lutcher, Louisiana, on October 17, 2020. So on October 17, 2020, the date of the planned protest, members of RISE St. James protest march in Lutcher, Louisiana, on October 17, 2020. James after a two-year legal battle against the St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. Aramco, the company sitting on the world’s second-largest pool of oil reserves, took majority control of SABIC, one of the world’s top five petrochemical companies, in June 2020.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. TCEQ continues to vigilantly evaluate benzene levels at [the Jacintoport] monitor, while encouraging efforts to reduce benzene in this area,” an agency spokesperson said in an email. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 124

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. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.

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

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. parts per billion (ppb) in 2020, the largest annual increase ever recorded, and a sharp increase from the 9.74 million years. ppb rise in 2019. ppb rise in 2019. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Credit: NOAA.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 140

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Preliminary data shows that methane emissions jumped in 2020 by the largest amount since systematic record-keeping began decades ago. parts per billion (ppb) in 2020, the largest annual increase ever recorded, and a sharp increase from the 9.74 million years. ppb rise in 2019. ppb rise in 2019. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Credit: NOAA.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 92

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

“Very many of us were alarmed and held expectations about his tenure lower than the Mariana Trench,” recalled John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s clean air, climate, and clean energy program. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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Health Ozone Building Energy Monitoring Law 129