Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. PM10); all are known to be a risk to human health.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al.,

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 21, 2022

The main challenges with building sustainability involve reducing overall impact to human health the and the environment. Increasing energy efficiency. It will save you money in the long run in operational costs, reduce your environmental impact, and improve the health and lives of your occupants. Challenges. Construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available in two models (pump or diffusion) and battery powered with onboard datalogging, the YESAIR instruments have been designed for intermittent or continuous indoor air quality monitoring of temperature, RH, particulates and up to 5 gases. These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

Pollutants pose a threat not only to human health and the ecosystem. Water quality in the European Union is being closely monitored and analysed. Ozonation and other oxidation methods, biological treatment, and membrane filtration are the advanced technologies used to remove pollutants from water.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. While precise figures may be lacking, research does indicate that pesticide production is especially energy-intensive, and there are estimates of energy use associated with the production of certain pesticides.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

You need to remove policy hurdles such as in the Renewable Energy Directive, so that you can faster scale the hydrogen economy in Europe, and use that to build out the infrastructure”, Simon Herbert, ExxonMobil’s vice-president of low carbon solutions, told the World Hydrogen 2024 conference in Rotterdam last week.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 31, 2024

Challenges The main challenges with building sustainability involve reducing overall impact to human health the and the environment. It will save you money in the long run in operational costs, reduce your environmental impact, and improve the health and lives of your occupants. They extend the useful life of each luminaire.

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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 30, 2024

But without clean air, our health and safety in outdoor environments is threatened. Despite Colorado having some of the nation’s strongest clean air protections, Denver ranks as being the seventh-most polluted city for ozone pollution in the country according to the American Lung Association’s last State of the Air Report.

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Econaur

MARCH 27, 2020

In addition, inspect insulation for a tight fit around building components that penetrate the insulation, such as electrical boxes. Fly ash is a waste ash produced from burning coal in electric power plants. Radiant heat travels in a straight line away from any surface and heats anything solid that absorbs its energy.

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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. This type of monitoring can inform agencies, such as the U.S.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2025

The group behind the study says that a new generation of roaming air pollution sensors, powered by AI, can improve the accuracy of air quality measurements and better inform people about pollution levels in their area.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On July 22, the world experienced its hottest day in recorded history. The global average temperature reached 17.2 degrees C (62.9 degrees F), prompting UN Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a global call to action on extreme heat. The problem of extreme.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Supermarkets all over Australia and New Zealand are benefiting from advanced carbon dioxide monitors, says measurement expert Vaisala, as new natural refrigeration systems are installed to assist in the fight against climate change. However, HCFCs are very powerful greenhouse gases so Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) became more popular.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

India Gate, New Delhi: Residents of the city face pollution levels with a health impact estimated to be equivalent to smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day (image credit: Amit kg / Shutterstock.com).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Late August saw the release of “Air Quality and Health In Cities”, the latest edition of The State of Global Air report, produced annually by the US Health Effects Institute. It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. Between NO2 and PM2.5, Emerging from the murk.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

Friday, 17 June, the hottest day of the year so far, saw unhealthy levels of Ozone across the Borough. Councillor Adam Harrison, Cabinet member for a sustainable Camden said: “Reducing air pollution is absolutely vital to improving the health and well-being of everyone in Camden.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The firm behind it hopes “to fundamentally transform how we monitor and manage air pollution to improve public health and well-being in urban spaces.” The sensors will be deployed over the coming months and will complement the existing air quality monitoring network. Early adopter.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk in Europe, with the problem greatest in cities, according to the EEA.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, or WHO, published an update to its air quality guidelines — the international rubric that sets non-binding standards for safe levels of air pollution for the world’s countries. It sets higher standards for almost every pollutant the organization monitors. was responsible for shaving 2.2

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year. When you choose to install a home solar system and a battery, you can better control your average electricity costs over a year. Solar energy means healthier air.

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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 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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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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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. Their solution is a four-meter-high CityTree installation, which is equivalent to 275 urban trees and has the ability to clean city air from harmful pollution.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The gas, which is released by a range of anthropogenic and natural sources, is ten times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere and is responsible for more than half a million deaths annually, in addition to the death of ecosystems and crops, because it creates toxic ground-level ozone.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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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. Why use the Eos Bioreactor According to the CDC, climate change has an effect on human health.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

From water usage to pollution , growing cannabis may have a larger footprint than you’d think. Energy consumption How does energy use factor into growing cannabis? Growing cannabis indoors requires a significant amount of energy. ” This means that every pound of marijuana produced creates about 1.95

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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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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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