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.

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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. . Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas and is responsible for about three-quarters of global emissions. Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

As a positive side-effect, emissions of other volatile cargos such as chemical products, LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) were reduced similarly by the same technology, while emissions of H2S and other environmentally harmful compounds were also brought down. An overlooked problem.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

But ground-level ozone and other pollutants from cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries and chemical plants can kill. 14 Solar Saves on Gas and Fuel 9. Coal and natural gas are not free, and they are expensive and dirty. Solar energy means healthier air. We all need clean air for survival.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

In terms of energy usage, manufacturing one kilogram of pesticide requires an average of 10 times more energy than producing one kilogram of nitrogen fertilizer, which is made from natural gas. Many pesticides release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a precursor to ground-level ozone that acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.

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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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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As we’ve covered before , heat pumps have been rising in popularity in recent years as a more efficient technology to replace both natural gas heaters and standard air conditioners. Gradient is aiming to increase accessibility and reduce cost with its compact design.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

In Whitby, the 2,000 residents in the proposed trial area would have the choice to continue using natural gas or switch to hydrogen for heating. In contrast to Whitby, residents in Redcar have been told that they won’t be able to opt-out of the trial.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Gas powered equipment may be a source of carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide enrichment systems may be utilised; air conditioning systems can potentially leak refrigerants, and propane or natural gas furnaces may be employed for heating purposes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Billed by the fossil fuel industry as a climate solution, dozens of planned blue hydrogen projects in Europe could consume more natural gas each year than France, and produce emissions on a par with Denmark, a DeSmog analysis has found. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. “We should be very cautious with blue hydrogen. .

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

To make it usable as a fuel, hydrogen must be separated from water, coal, natural gas or animal or plant waste. These researchers theorized that oxidized hydrogen would cool the stratosphere and make more clouds, adversely affecting the polar vortex and increasing the holes in the ozone layer.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Levine recommended a strategy of emphasizing scientific uncertainty, the costs of climate action, and deflections that included energy efficiency, reforestation, and natural gas. He’s like, “Remember that whole ozone layer thing, and then governments got together to get rid of these chemicals? Available at ClimateFiles.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

Soon after the 2024 legislative session kicked off in January, lawmakers introduced a suite of proposals intended to rein in ozone pollution from oil and gas activity, the very sort of bills the industry’s ballot measures seemed designed to block. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Pollution Law 124

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. By early June, the monitors registered a three-hour spike in ozone levels, which, if sustained over time, Nye said, would exceed federal guidelines.

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Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Leakage has certainly been a bête noire in the natural gas sector, and something that happens far more frequently than was assumed, as reports of recent years seem to confirm. True, hydrogen gas is extremely light, and prone to dispersing rapidly, producing dilute gas mixtures far less flammable than pure H2.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. But the oil and gas industry is pushing hard for increased use of “blue” hydrogen. ExxonMobil Corp.

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Hydrogen Policy Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 103

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, made extracting deeply buried deposits of oil and natural gas financially feasible. The process also released benzene and other naturally occurring compounds into the air and water. Honeycutt did not respond to calls and emails from Public Health Watch.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to 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.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Methane is a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2, although it has a shorter lifespan in the environment. The Trump Administration has also refused to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter and ozone.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 5, 2024

EPA & NMED Inspections Identify Widespread Emissions at Oil & Gas Facilities in the Permian Basin Area appeared first on CleanTechnica. DALLAS, Texas — The U.S. Fourteen EPA inspectors and five NMED inspectors took part in these joint inspections. continued] The post U.S.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 11, 2021

When lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic cut local nitrogen oxide emissions, the effect on ozone pollution was global and unexpectedly rapid.

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