Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The guidelines also create new standards for peak season ozone — which occurs during the summer months when afternoon light mixes with ground-level volatile compounds — and carbon monoxide, caused by vehicles and machinery. and PM10 — but loosening the standard for sulfur dioxide.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. But when they break down, they create chlorine that reacts with the protective ozone, letting dangerous radiation through to the Earth’s surface. How HFCs keep rooms and food cool.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Of all those options, the charcoal grill produces the most CO2 and contributes more to ground-level ozone. To find a public fireworks displays in your state, check out the Parade list for 2021. However, if using a charcoal grill, there are options for a lighter footprint. Red, White & Blue fun.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

According to a 2021 estimate from researchers from the University of Chicago , a failure to meet international guidelines for PM 2.5 These particles, which are produced from wildfires and the burning of fossil fuels, can lodge themselves deep into people’s lungs and cause respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological damage.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

For example, Shell’s Quest project in Canada, capable of producing 900 tonnes of hydrogen a day, captured five million tonnes of CO2 from 2015-2021 — but released more than 7.5 .” Oil Companies Spy Opportunities The track record of the fewer than 10 existing commercial blue hydrogen plants in operation has been uneven.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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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. My remark had a major impact on the audience,” Crutzen, who died in 2021, recalled years later.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Global Witness concluded using public data that despite capturing five million tonnes of CO2 from 2015 to 2021, Quest released a further 7.5 It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health. million tonnes of greenhouse gases during the same period.

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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 the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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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 the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can be found in some products, which damage the ozone layer when released into the environment. With this tip in mind, EcoWatch listed their seven best ecological cleaning products in their 2021 article 7 Best Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products of 2022. Look for certified bio-based cleaning products.

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. Romanin is one of those working on the problem.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Jeff Bezos, center, and the rest of the Blue Origin team arrive for a press conference after flying into space in the New Shepard rocket on July 20, 2021, in Van Horn, Texas. In the 1980s, NASA’s satellite data and computer modeling helped scientists track ozone depletion and global warming. Joe Raedle / Getty Images.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

When hydrogen is combusted for heating, a 2021 paper found that it can create nitrogen oxides (NOx), an air pollutant that is “harmful in its own right and is a precursor to other pollutants of concern such as fine particulate matter and ozone”.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

The Act follows the model of the most successful environmental treaty - the Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs and HFCs, and is healing the hole in our ozone layer. This must not happen, and the Green Recovery Act ensures it won't. One way or another, the principles of Green Recovery Act will be put into law. It's just a question of when.

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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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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants: particulate matter (PM), ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. Researchers have found that across the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:30. EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice. In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations Shuying Xu Tue, 03/23/2021 – 01:15 As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations Shuying Xu Tue, 03/23/2021 – 01:15 As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

As of 2021, most U.S. In Vizuete’s own words, “if plants produce VOCs, there is a high possibility that under certain conditions, cannabis cultivation could impact the ozone.” Today is April 20, often known as the unofficial holiday when many people celebrate and enjoy their favorite leafy green, marijuana.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. rates of preterm birth increased 4 percent between 2020 and 2021 — and rates were far higher in Black women (14.8 And the U.S. Bates / Grist A 2023 study found that the average preterm birth rate was 7.9

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. In November 2021, Alivisatos charged a university committee with the task of determining how the university could best establish itself as a “global leader in the climate and energy space.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The package also included new interim targets requiring manufacturers to cut emissions from new cars by 55 per cent and from new vans by 50 per cent by 2030 compared to 2021 levels, as well as plans for new metrics for measuring the lifecycle emissions of vehicles.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

30 years later came COP 26 (2021) – held in Glasgow. Carbon accounting provides long-term business viability A 2021 survey reporting 83% of consumers declared that it’s very important for them to buy from a company that operates sustainably. COP26 brought together 120 world leaders and over 40,000 registered participants.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Yosie Mon, 05/24/2021 – 01:30 In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Martin Luther King, Jr. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Yosie Mon, 05/24/2021 – 01:30 In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Martin Luther King, Jr. Protecting at-risk populations.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Soon after the 2024 legislative session kicked off in January, lawmakers introduced a suite of proposals intended to rein in ozone pollution from oil and gas activity, the very sort of bills the industry’s ballot measures seemed designed to block. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

This spring, a Dutch court is due to hear Shell’s appeal of a 2021 order to slash the company’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 45 percent by 2030, issued in response to a suit filed by environmental group Milieudefensie. As a minimum statement, therefore, human activities must have contributed to the increase in carbon dioxide and methane.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

In May 2021, the TCEQ issued a permit to GCGV. By early June, the monitors registered a three-hour spike in ozone levels, which, if sustained over time, Nye said, would exceed federal guidelines. Ozone is an ingredient in smog and a respiratory irritant. The ability to monitor in real time is critical, Hilliard said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I 11, 2021, the canister registered an annual average benzene level of 2.1

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. We the Power is a 2021 documentary on climate change.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. Between 2016 and 2021, the Texas legislature slashed the TCEQ’s funding by 20 percent, even as it increased the state budget by 16 percent. They gather real-time readings for ozone, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Right: Trend from 1983-2021. One of the great things about reducing methane emissions is that you always get large public health and ecosystem benefits as methane is a precursor to surface ozone formation, and that’s toxic to both people and plants,” Shindell said. Credit: NOAA.

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