Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Document opportunities and learnings for the next event and track your progress. For instance, GBB member, the Doyle Group , has tried to move away from printing and paper waste by using online document storage and communication platforms. Provide wastewater containers to vendors and dispose of contents appropriately.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2019

They have been well documented in causing respiratory and eye damage to those experiencing long-term exposure, along with less serious side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and nausea. VOCs have a variety of adverse environmental and health effects. These adverse health impacts affect not only your employees, but also customers.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

And the viability of this timeline seemed confirmed by an ENA document published in January, Britain’s Hydrogen Blending Delivery Plan. The recognition of this warming potential has heightened a sense of urgency around making sure the infrastructure for hydrogen is designed from the start to be secured against leaks.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

They highlight the “white male effect,” a well-documented phenomenon of white men showing significantly less aversion to perceived risk than any other demographic group. Indeed, the Spice scientists were overwhelmingly white and male — a trend that continues among researchers in geoengineering today. But even that is problematic. “We

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Best practices for biomedical waste management include regular training and education of staff, the use of personal protective equipment, and proper documentation of waste management activities. Another approach is to use alternative technologies for treatment and disposal, such as microwave or ozone treatment.

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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. THACKER: What I love about this document is that you can see they’re kind of getting concerned. Document 8: 1981.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, the analysts estimate that £1.6bn in damages and 17,000 lives could be saved annually in Bristol, London, Manchester, and Birmingham if the cities worked to meet guidelines on all major air pollutants, which also include particulate matter and ozone.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2024

Part 2: Goals and KPIs – This section documents your current baseline in terms of your eco profile which includes your energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and overall eco score. Make products that are recyclable, renewable and/or biodegradable, and do not contain toxic or ozone-depleting substances.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A GHG inventory is a document that lists the quantities of GHG emissions from an entity – an organization – during a given period – usually a year. For instance, once in the atmosphere, CH 4 reacts with ozone, a reaction that increases the GWP of CH 4 by ~ 50%. GHG Emission Inventory .

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 16, 2020

“There is no need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and no point in attempting to do so,” as one recent Heartland document succinctly put it. ” More often, it is implicitly built into the conversation, as it was in so many other public debates, like those over leaded gas, ozone and tobacco.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. When exposed to sunlight, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides transform into ozone, which is especially dangerous to children and the elderly. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

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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. In a PDP, the maximum volume of VOC emissions that a factory can emit is stated.

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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. In a PDP, the maximum volume of VOC emissions that a factory can emit is stated.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Scottish Forestry has documented that a healthy forest “is also fundamental to good water quality.” The additional benefits from woodlands include providing the natural environs for people to decompress for restorative wellness and absorbing pollutants (ammonia, nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxide) to clean the air.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But there are other GHGs that contribute significantly to human-induced global warming such as methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N 2 0), refrigerant gasses (HFCs, PFCs, and CFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ), water vapor (H 2 0), and ozone (O 3 ). What’s the relevance of these different GHGs to carbon accounting?

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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. Their express purpose was to fend off anti-plastic legislation, according to documents uncovered by the Center for Climate Integrity. I recycle these.”

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Researchers, including Basu, had already documented the impacts of air pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes. billion people — notably in South and East Asia and the African Sahel — experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat, hotter than 90 percent of documented temperatures between 1991 and 2020, according to a new report.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Xie provided few specific details on the Chinese government's overarching methane reduction target, but said the draft plan would focus on collecting better data to verify an accurate baseline, and that the document is currently going through "legislative as well as administrative processes".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The EPA’s letter cites multiple examples of DeSmog’s reporting , which includes documentation of Cancer Alley advocates’ many protests over inaction and videos of the LDEQ Secretary’s comments that are “inconsistent” with the agency’s claims about its responsibilities to regulate chloroprene.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

were among the top emitters of at least seven toxic substances documented by the TRI. 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.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Newly-discovered Shell documents dating back decades could help strengthen lawsuits aiming to hold the oil major to account for climate damages, climate attorneys say. Shell Knew In July 2023, 20 Democratic members of Congress cited DeSmog’s initial coverage of the documents in a letter to U.S. The Washington D.C.-based

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Meanwhile, despite “some rinks add[ing] ordinary salt to the water to keep them from freezing,” Wondergy documents, “most modern rinks now add ethylene glycol.” HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

million on consulting and signature collection for the effort, according to public documents. 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.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Little information about how much farms fertilize is publicly available beyond some documentation from operations raising large numbers of animals, such as several thousand or more pigs. The state also could mandate that farmers not use more fertilizer than their crops need. It hasn’t done that, either. It barely tracks the issue.

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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. According to a document on the TCEQ website , the guidelines are based on scientific studies from the 1980s and ’90s. I don’t know what happened to him, but I still think about him to this day.”

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, Honeycutt questioned the Obama EPA’s strengthening of smog regulations, making the argument — contrary to scientific evidence — that reducing ozone levels would result in negligible health benefits in part because most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors. Now that fight is before a state court judge.

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