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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Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

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.

Logistics 52

Logistics Building Energy Monitoring Ozone Business Energy Monitoring 52

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. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

Pollution 430

Pollution Health Politics Policy 430

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. “I’m 55, and in my lifetime I’ve seen a landscape-level change.”.

Logging 98

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

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.

Electricity 69

Electricity Ozone Fossil fuels Law 69

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.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

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.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. In January, Earthjustice and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law submitted a civil rights complaint to the EPA on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of St.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. What are the characteristics of systemic environmental racism?

Health 28

Health Pollution Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. What are the characteristics of systemic environmental racism?

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. The committee was chaired by Greenstone, an economist, and included two other economists, an ecologist, two molecular engineers, a historian, a geologist, a law professor, and a computer scientist.

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 121

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

The idea was to prevent rules that would restrict oil and gas extraction for health, environmental, or other reasons. Representatives from West Group, a law and policy firm, proposed the first of these “energy choice” ballot measures in August. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

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. People who live near a chemical or plastic plant are not just exposed to one chemical in isolation.

Plastics 98

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

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.

Energy Monitor 123

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 123

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Though the bay’s health is far from perfect, and agriculture nutrients remain a challenge , progress accelerated after the U.S. Lake Erie, on the other hand? “And

Agriculture 134

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 134

Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

But in the midst of this unprecedented public health crisis, the Trump Administration is rolling back public health protections that keep us safe from air pollution. EPA, both by definition and by law, has a moral and legal obligation to protect all Americans from air pollution that contributes to climate change and damages our health.

Pollution 52

Pollution Ozone Health Climate change 52

Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 14, 2022

Specifically: (1) The Administrator shall … waive application of this section to [California] …, if the State determines that the State standards will be, in the aggregate, at least as protective of public health and welfare as applicable Federal standards. No such waiver shall be granted if the Administrator finds that—. (A)

Climate change 40

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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.

Energy Monitor 100

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 100

Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

Health 130

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