AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy.

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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. 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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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA historically has identified “critical population sub-groups” in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Protecting at-risk populations.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Representatives from West Group, a law and policy firm, proposed the first of these “energy choice” ballot measures in August. Ground-level ozone — the key component in smog — results when certain pollutants react with sunlight. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. In this documentary, we see how Greta has grown from here.

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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. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. In fact, the agency rarely fines companies that violate Texas air pollution laws. But the agency didn’t fine or otherwise penalize K-Solv.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

WHAT: “ Public Hearing on Proposal to Retain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter ,” an Environmental Protection Agency-organized hearing. 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.

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Rinexii

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The two major parties worked together to bring clean air and clean water acts into law, and the results were very beneficial for the United States. This bill is called the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 16 , and it has a long way to go before it becomes law. In fact, George H.W.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The Democrat-controlled Harris County Commissioners Court — which oversees a multibillion-dollar budget and sets policies for everything from public health to law enforcement — gave the county’s Pollution Control department $5.9

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