California’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule is not strong enough to ensure a cleaner future
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
A 2019 report shows seven of the top ten most ozone-choked cities in America are in California.
A non-partisan green movement is impossible today given its opponents
The Guardian: Energy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Since then progress has been made on mending the ozone layer and stopping acid rain but few are now pretending that environmental issues are non-partisan. Campaigners agreed everyone wanted to leave their children as good a planet as they inherited.
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Fossil Fuel Interests Spent Millions to Tank Clean Air Bills in Colorado
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 7, 2024
Protect Colorado, a group that received more than $4 million from Chevron, Occidental, and other oil and gas interests, spent heavily to support pro-industry ballot initiatives before and during the session — a critical form of political leverage. Ozone pollution is linked to shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and heart damage.
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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations
GreenBiz
MARCH 23, 2021
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Christopher Hazen. Chemicals & Toxics. Sponsored Article.
To succeed politically, Poilievre should embrace robust climate measures
Clean Energy Canada
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Students of conservative political history, however, will note that climate action and political longevity are intertwined — and that Poilievre might want to rethink hitching his wagon to Prairie populists. The choice before Poilievre is merely a political one. This post originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen.
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New Report ‘Ringing the Alarm Bell’ for Climate Advocacy Conflict of Interest
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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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 4, 2020
In recent years, the effects of vehicular air pollution on human health have become better understood, and received greater political and media attention. The company’s products are employed in commercial, institutional, municipal and light industrial markets, and in a wide variety of applications.
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Managing NOx gas emissions from combustion
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
So, as political pressure increases on measures to limit the emissions of the oxides of nitrogen, James Clements, managing director of UK analyser manufacturer Signal Group , explains the current issues and the latest advances in monitoring technology. Pollution can only be managed effectively if it is monitored effectively.
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A valve to help curb seaborne cargo VOC emissions
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 26, 2021
Several other VOCs including ethane, propane, butane, pentane, and hexane react with NOx to form ground level ozone which has harmful effects on human health and on plants. Especially methane is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. An overlooked problem. For many years did VOC emissions receive little focus.
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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 17, 2023
Many pesticides release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a precursor to ground-level ozone that acts as a powerful greenhouse gas. Pesticides further contribute to climate emissions once they are applied to agricultural fields. In addition, they disrupt soil microbes, which play a critical role in the ability of soils to sequester carbon.
California’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule is not strong enough to ensure a cleaner future
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
A 2019 report shows seven of the top ten most ozone-choked cities in America are in California. Excerpt from: California’s Advanced Clean Truck Rule is not strong enough to ensure a cleaner future.
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ExxonMobil Urges EU to Remove ‘Policy Hurdles’ Slowing Oil Industry’s Hydrogen Plans
DeSmogBlog
MAY 22, 2024
It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health. While hydrogen on its own does not trap heat, it can interact with other substances in the atmosphere to prolong the lifetime of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
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Gas Company in PR Offensive Ahead of Decision on Hydrogen Trial
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2023
When hydrogen is combusted for heating, a 2021 paper found that it can create nitrogen oxides (NOx), an air pollutant that is “harmful in its own right and is a precursor to other pollutants of concern such as fine particulate matter and ozone”. The proposed experiment in Redcar has attracted strong political support in Teesside.
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Why are governments failing to act on climate change?
Rinexii
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Phil Sharp, Former RFF President has said, “The American people seem far more unified than our political leadership on the need to address climate change. Perhaps the biggest current divide between major political parties is a financial one. The will of the people is clear, but government action across the globe has stalled.
The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice
GreenBiz
MAY 24, 2021
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
JUNE 29, 2022
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
MARCH 23, 2021
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.
China’s new frontier for VOC regulations
AGreenLiving
MARCH 23, 2021
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels.
Biodiversity loss is driven by economic growth: Prof. Julia Steinberger
Low Impact
AUGUST 23, 2020
Everyone was saying the right things, and to some extent doing the right things – passing legislation on water, on air, fixing the hole in the ozone layer. So at the beginning, it wouldn’t have been delusional to believe that everyone was going to take this seriously. Those things happened.
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Part 2: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Duane Levine gives a presentation to the company’s board of directors where he’s comparing what governments did with these chemicals called CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, with what might happen to fossil fuels when governments start to focus on climate change. I didn’t even know until later he had done ozone hole denial.
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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Grist
JUNE 12, 2024
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. Like, it just made so much intuitive sense that I think it kind of went beyond the lobbyist politics of Sacramento.” “It’s crazy what we’re doing.
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The Overview Effect
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Those Apollo missions are often credited with providing inspiration for the environmental movement, as well as the first Earth Day in April 1970, when some 20 million Americans demanded that political leaders clean up the air and water in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S.
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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.
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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice
AGreenLiving
MAY 24, 2021
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.
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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice
AGreenLiving
MAY 24, 2021
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.
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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals
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. Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.
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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth
Grist
MAY 30, 2024
Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. Somehow living has become a political issue,” she said. As temperatures rise, so does drought and air pollution, which also increases the risk of preterm birth or low birthweight babies. And the U.S.
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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 22, 2023
It also birthed a class of oil barons whose wealth and conservative political interests shaped national politics and popularized Texas culture in movies and TV shows. Those left behind tend to be poorer and have less political power. Harris County, where Channelview is located, was the main beneficiary of this evolution.
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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it
Grist
JANUARY 23, 2020
To protect its residents from microcystins , cyanobacteria toxins that can sicken people, Toledo has spent $53 million on an under-construction ozone treatment system, $6.2 Ohio’s inability to stem the flow of nutrients has costly consequences.
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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative
Grist
JULY 6, 2024
Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. Partially blocking the sun’s rays could interfere with normal plant processes and reduce agricultural yields.
Tom Steyer: A Pandemic Is No Time to Pander to the Fossil Fuel Industry
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 14, 2020
Over time, if something turns out to be terrible for society, it becomes the target of widespread popular and/or political wrath and it is severely curtailed or limited. Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT.
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Smog Isn’t Gone. Why Solving Climate Change Is About More Than Carbon Dioxide
GreenTechMedia
MAY 21, 2020
The challenge: finding the political will to eliminate them entirely. Short-lived climate pollutants include black carbon or soot, methane, hydrofluorocarbons and tropospheric ozone, or what we think of as city smog. In addition to heating up the atmosphere, they dirty our air, make people sick and affect the ozone layer.
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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)
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. Length: 1 hour 37 minutes. 8: Generation Green New Deal.
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The climate policy milestone that was buried in the 2020 budget
Grist
JANUARY 8, 2020
Fahey is a co-chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to protect the ozone layer.
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R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Robert: Well, the core of my proposal is to get the federal government entirely out of this business and shift market control to the states where ethanol enjoys more political power. It’s such a huge potential market and could have the political support of many Midwest states. Nowhere do I call for restricting ethanol.
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Four Reasons Why 2020 Will be a Make or Break Year for Environmental Action
Green Market Oracle
DECEMBER 26, 2019
While one can argue that this is a maladaptive point of view, entrenched conservative political interests, and the old energy industry make this a difficult nut to crack. Although an incremental approach may be more politically viable, the problem with this approach is that we simply do not have the time. elections in November.
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Earth Day Special: The Road to Recovery - The Courage to Hope for a Better World
Green Market Oracle
APRIL 22, 2020
We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. While the coronavirus highlights the economic and political weaknesses of our system, it also illustrates the the speed and scale at which governments can respond. We have shown that we can make a difference.
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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?
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. In June of 1988 James E.
4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. Policy & Politics. Funding for 2021 was one area where the Trump administration and Congress were in full agreement. $32 Pull Quote.
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In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails
Grist
AUGUST 26, 2020
For instance, Honeycutt questioned the Obama EPA’s strengthening of smog regulations, making the argument — contrary to scientific evidence — that reducing ozone levels would result in negligible health benefits in part because most Americans spend the majority of their time indoors.
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Defend Our Future to Testify at Virtual EPA Hearing on Trump Administration’s Refusal to Strengthen Protections From Life-Threatening Particle Pollution
Defend Our Future
MAY 21, 2020
As a student at Ohio State, I spend a vast majority of my time nestled in the heart of Franklin County, Ohio, which is home to nearly 300,000 African Americans and received an F rating for high ozone pollution. Addy Zenko, Defend Our Future Campus Ambassador at The Ohio State University. ###.
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4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration
AGreenLiving
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
32 million for the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: This fund helps developing countries reduce their use of ozone-depleting chemicals, which include several powerful greenhouse gases. Funding for 2021 was one area where the Trump administration and Congress were in full agreement. $32 Pull Quote It is time for the U.S.
The Fate Of Our Food Systems Is Wrapped Up In Climate Change & Plant Nutrition
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 14, 2025
Climate change introduces a suite of ominous factors, such as greenhouse gas emissions, elevated temperature, increased carbon dioxide concentrations, nitrous oxide and methane ozone depletion, and deforestation. All of these intensify environmental stresses on.
EPA Halts Efforts to Clean Up Unsafe Levels of Ozone Smog
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 6, 2021
In defiance of science and the law, EPA attempts to halt 50 years of progress delivered by the Clean Air Act.
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