DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

The United States-based oil major’s willingness to publicly throw down the gauntlet to policy-makers underscores the stakes for the fossil fuel industry as the EU fleshes out its plans to slash carbon emissions, ahead of June’s European parliament elections. ADNOC is a major supplier of oil and gas to Europe.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. The average gas end electricity consumed by a medium-sized office is 45,000 kWh and 30,000-50,000 kWh per year respectively.

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

Step 6: Implement the plan, establish and communicate new policies and practices. 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. Step 4: Engage your employees.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s packed with energy; per unit of weight, at least 60 times as much as the lithium-ion batteries used to propel electric cars. In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. It’s also terrible for the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. Avoiding False Solutions.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For decades, scientists have closely observed the ozone layer , which protects Earth from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Ozone is created in our atmosphere when the sun’s high-energy UV rays rupture the stable covalent bonds of atmospheric oxygen (O2) molecules, transforming them into free radicals.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

Other problematic sources of air pollution include methane, which produces hazardous ground-level ozone that is linked to health conditions such as lung damage, chest pain , and exacerbated respiratory diseases. exposure from 10 micrograms per square meter to just 5. Notably, both methane and many major forms of PM 2.5

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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. Every industry and every business uses resources and energy differently. Can we use less or adopt clean alternative energy sources?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In turn, the rankings provide insight on air quality safety that can helpfully instruct a city’s policy makers, infrastructure management and governmental direction. In fact, two of the most common pollutants are ozone and particles, like soot from wildfires. This type of monitoring can inform agencies, such as the U.S.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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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. It is part of a broader university effort to become a global leader in the climate and energy space. This has created a vacuum that University of Chicago leaders seem excited to fill.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The deal finalises one of the key planks of the EU's sweeping Green Deal programme, making it the first of Brussel's 'Fit for 55' policy packages designed to cut emissions 55 per cent by 2030 to be appoved by both the European Parliament and the Council of member states. President Biden signs Kigali Amendment, promises 'phase down' of HFCs.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Credit: NOAA.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2021

Human activity is driving climate change,” Colm Sweeney, assistant deputy director of the Global Monitoring Lab, a division within NOAA, said in a statement. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas — more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time-frame. Left: Trend from 2017-2021. Credit: NOAA.

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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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