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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. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Christopher Hazen. Chemicals & Toxics. Sponsored Article.

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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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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? EPA historically has identified "critical population sub-groups" in setting ozone, particulate and other ambient air quality standards. Policy & Politics.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

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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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

AGreenLiving

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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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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