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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Site assessments for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act , or ‘Superfund’, include consideration of multiple exposure pathways and pollutants. So, incrementally, environmental protection is becoming more like real life, where exposures are not singular and isolated.

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

The fossil fuel industry has a long history of portraying itself as environmentally responsible while continuing to prioritize profit over the planet. Fossil fuel emissions, such as particulate matter and ozone, contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, as well as deaths.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. They are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, CFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

There are only 6 NAAQS - ozone, carbon monoxide, particulates, lead, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen dioxides - but they dominate most air quality concerns ranging from smog to health effects, such as from particulates and lead. There remain some problem areas; for example Boston tends to be a non-attainment area for ozone in the summer.

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Policy News: May 17, 2021

ESA

EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15). Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Notice of Call for Nominations for the Exxon Valdez Oil SPill Trustee Council.

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