Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

EEA estimates from 2019 attributed approximately 307,000 premature deaths to fine particulate matter in the 27 EU Member States, with a further 40,400 linked to nitrogen dioxide, and 16,800 to ground-level ozone. and PM10)‎, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. United Nations Environment Programme.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The study finds that as much as five times more methane is being emitted from oil and gas production in the UK than what the government has reported. We hope our work will facilitate improved emission estimates and reductions not only from the UK but also from other countries producing methane from oil and gas extraction,” Mauzerall said.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Technologies, including ozone, Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP), granular activated carbon (GAC), ultraviolet (UV), and nanobubbles will be used in a variety of combinations to remove substances such as common pharmaceuticals and antibiotics, cleaning detergents, PFAS (also known as forever chemicals), microplastics, steroid hormones and pesticides.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The sensors will measure particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, and ozone, in addition to temperature and humidity. The government has pledged to significantly increase the air quality monitoring network in the UK and this project will act as a blueprint to demonstrate the benefits of a dense monitoring network.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Reflecting on the conference, British Water’s chief executive Lila Thompson said, “Tackling micropollutants demands a multifaceted approach including research and innovation, collaboration, technology adoption, and nature-based solutions, with collective responsibility across government, industry, and society.

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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. Be very wary now,” she said. “So

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration. Strong partnerships between governments, academia, industry, and NGOs are essential to share knowledge, develop effective solutions, and implement best practices. Collaboration: No single entity can solve this complex issue alone.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

These legal failures have led to lawsuits against the UK government on several occasions, resulting in numerous fines being incurred. As such, those with concerns over the government’s commitment will likely be looking closely for signs that a post-Brexit government is making good on its promises. This includes sub-micron PM 2.5

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish Widows, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, claims to have divested £1.4bn from companies that have failed to meet its environmental, social and governance standards since November, speeding past its initial target of divesting £440m annually from companies lagging on sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fluorinated gases are another, less prevalent type of GHG that are still significant as they have a long atmospheric lifetime and are attributed to ozone depletion. . The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

She called for coordinated action from world governments and international agencies to mitigate pollution while also addressing other threats such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015.

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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. According to the report, this problem causes up to 6,5 million deaths annually, not to mention the 1,6 trillion-dollar annual economic damage in EU, where governments are trying to treat air pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

In June, Robert Gordon University announced it had received £33k pump priming funding from the Scottish Government to research the fabrication of “a new hydrogen gas leak detection sensor to support the safe expansion of clean hydrogen energy into daily life”.

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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 The report also finds that exposure to PM2.5 billion days of sick leave.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Some climate groups are urging governments to back “green” hydrogen — the term used for hydrogen produced in an emissions-free but energy-intensive process powered by wind and solar. In contrast to blue hydrogen’s reliance on natural gas as a feedstock, green hydrogen is made using large quantities of water.

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Grist

DECEMBER 21, 2019

research councils and backed by four universities, several government departments, and the private company Marshall Aerospace. government to cancel the trial. Known as the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering, or Spice, project, it was run by three U.K. Within months, the project was dead.

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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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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

By continuing to approve new coal power plants and polluting factories, China’s local governments are courting future environmental and economic problems.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

SCAQMD will issue solicitations for projects to be funded by the WAIRE Mitigation Program, and awards of funds must be presented to the SCAQMD Governing Board for approval at least annually. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Northern Gas Networks (NGN) is bidding to host a two-year government-funded trial in Redcar, Teesside, to replace gas with ‘green’ hydrogen in around 2,000 homes. NGN staff have led volunteer litter-picks and the firm has paid for tours to a prototype of hydrogen-powered homes in Gateshead, which are run by NGN, Cadent and the UK government.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It has revealed that human activities have been the dominant force of global climate change since the mid-20th century, underlined by the discovery, more than 30 years ago, of the Ozone Hole over Halley and Faraday Research Stations on Antarctica by scientists at British Antarctic Survey.

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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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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

5 Many state and local governments that offer property and sales tax exemptions, too. But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. Federal and state incentives are available for going solar. 6 Find out more about federal and state incentives.

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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 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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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 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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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. Today, the government pays people to protect trees and forests have regenerated. Here are a few examples.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced the government would launch a review before the end of June aimed at tightening conditions for the export of coal-fired power plants. The Swiss government has written to the UN confirming it will upgrade its national climate action plan before the COP26 Climate Summit this autumn.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In response, NASA began positioning itself as an environmental authority, publicizing its new satellite technology that monitored the oceans, air pollution, and the ozone layer. In the 1980s, NASA’s satellite data and computer modeling helped scientists track ozone depletion and global warming.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

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. The government said it must happen, and it did, at tremendous pace. It just needs people in Parliament to enact it.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Support for efforts to slash methane emissions over the next decade is growing, with around 150 governments now signed up to a global UN-backed pledge to tackle the potent climate pollutant, it was announced at COP27 in Egypt this afternoon. It means fewer than 50 national governments worldwide have still yet to commit to the initiative.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

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 footprinting? .

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Stratospheric ozone depletion – The stratospheric ozone layer in the atmosphere filters out ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Promote polycentric governance – Polycentric governance promotes collaboration, connectivity, and learning across scales and cultures. Industry and the Anthropocene.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

.” Related: Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , “Pollutants with the strongest evidence for public health concerns include particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2).”

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