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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

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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Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees

Envirotec Magazine

The study, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, used a purpose-built fumigation facility to regulate levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – present in diesel exhaust fumes – and ozone in an open field environment.

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

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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New Report ‘Ringing the Alarm Bell’ for Climate Advocacy Conflict of Interest

DeSmogBlog

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.

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

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. The laws eventually passed in 39 states. This spring, Maine passed a law to incentivize companies to use accurate recycling labels on their packaging.

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Let's pass a Green Recovery Act

Business Green

The Act enables a Green New Deal, a Clean Revolution, and crucially it recodes the laws that cause climate damage. The Act guarantees full employment, incomes and training for all affected workers - and it puts the duty to report on full employment at fair wages, for everyone, back into the law. It's morally wrong and must stop.

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Air Regulators Tackle Trucking at Southern California Warehouses

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The rule includes a sunset date, whereby the WPCO requirement expires after both an EPA finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the federal 2015 ozone standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) and a CARB finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the state ozone standard of 70 ppb. Further Actions.

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