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. Implementation of these standards is scheduled to start in April.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Stanford science historian Ben Franta and I continue our discussion of these key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry. Document 7: 1981. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point. Document 8: 1981.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide. On November 16, Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Energy announced plans to build an $8.5-billion

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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. Indeed, the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 petrochemicals will account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand, and for almost 50% of demand by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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

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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