Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Health costs incurred as a result of air pollution are collectively higher in London than any other city in Europe, according to study that quantifies how much money European city dwellers spend due to particulate matter, NO2, and ozone. per cent and 0.54 per cent respectively.

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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.” There’s no time to wait in tackling the air pollution crisis – we all contribute to air pollution, and we all suffer the health impacts that it causes. Early adopter.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition, some health services have takeback programmes for expired or unused medication, preventing them from being flushed down the drain or disposed of improperly. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration. Collaboration: No single entity can solve this complex issue alone.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Weld County, a 4,000-square-mile area northeast of Denver, this year received failing air quality grades for ozone and particulate matter — pollutants linked to fossil fuel extraction — from the American Lung Association. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024. How can they do both effectively?” she said.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

ozone and NO2 with recent research quantifying the contribution of fossil fuels to global air pollution levels to perform a health impact assessment and subsequent cost calculation for the year 2018. and ozone from fossil fuels is responsible for an estimated 7.7 per cent of global GDP. billion days of sick leave.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

5 Many state and local governments that offer property and sales tax exemptions, too. The costs associated with climate change are growing and include rising health care costs, destruction of property, increased food prices and more. Federal and state incentives are available for going solar. Solar energy means healthier air.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Throughout the ‘80s, fossil fuel companies began accumulating more evidence that climate change was going to be a disaster in the future and that governments were going to start regulating their industry. He’s like, “Remember that whole ozone layer thing, and then governments got together to get rid of these chemicals?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It's commonly known that nitrogen oxide pollution from road traffic harms health, and especially lung health," explained Dr Anna Moore, respiratory registrar and spokesperson for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. While it is important for our health ?to There's less awareness however of alternative ?sources

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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

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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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. Costa Rica abolished its army and used the money to invest in health and education. Here are a few examples.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Covid-19 has been a terrible blow to public health, and the economy, but the emergency of climate damage is worse. It puts the whole machinery of government and business into action for a clean Britain and a living planet. In World War Two, the US government told auto-makers they needed to retool to make planes.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Industries, households and vehicles all emit dangerous pollutants that are harmful to human health. Air pollution is detrimental to society, harms human health and ultimately increases health care costs.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

In response to inquiries from Grist, a TNC spokesperson said that Ubben “had no governing authority” in his role and “is no longer affiliated with The Nature Conservancy in any capacity.”). They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now. I can hardly walk,” said Short.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking.

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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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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with new findings as of October 2024 from WRI’s Electric School Bus Data Dashboard, which is updated monthly and contains the most recent data on electric school bus adoption. Previous versions of this article are.

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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. at those companies.

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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. at those companies.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. And the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

That amendment, if passed, would have allowed manufacturers to negotiate lower tax bills with local governments, giving the already dominant petrochemical industry a way to permanently avoid paying property taxes. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide. John and the Sierra Club.

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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. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Why doesn’t the government regulate it as one? This slow-motion crisis, however, is largely manmade — and neither the federal government nor states are effectively cracking down on the major contributor. Research from Stanford and Princeton predicts that government agencies will have to double down on control efforts to keep up.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More than $400bn in new finance and investment to increase renewables, access to electricity and clean cooking technologies were announced today by governments and businesses around the world at a crucial energy summit at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City today.

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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. Also, many experts agree, global governance structures are profoundly ill-equipped to deal with the kinds of questions solar geoengineering will raise: How much cooling is the right amount?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The most recent IPCC report , published on Monday 28th February 2022, paints the bleakest picture yet regarding the impacts of climate change risk on ecosystems, wildlife, human health, society, and our economy. Regional factors are available for several countries through national governments or other sources.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Most of this growing literature has not been accepted by private industry, nor has it been thoroughly evaluated to best inform government policymaking. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The deal would shift funds from one royal-controlled arm of the government, Aramco, to another, the PIF. Styrene is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and can cause problems such as memory loss, confusion and slowed reflexes, even at low levels.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT. The Republican Party apparently doesn’t believe its own dogma: that the private sector knows best about investment, that the government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers. And, no, it's not like the General Motors bailout.

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