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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.”

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Evolving Air Quality Standards

Legal Planet

I am focusing on what are called the primary standards, which are health-based, and on two key pollutants, particulates and ozone, which have the greatest current importance. Ozone Pollution (Smog) Ozone standards are measured in parts per million (ppm) in the air. ppm in 2015. The annual standard started in 1971 at 0.08

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

The CPDW is thought to be affected by the shift in the westerly winds around Antarctica which have increased in recent decades due to a combination of greenhouse gas forcing and the polar ozone hole ( Miller et al, 2006 ). Back in 2015, Pollard et al. 112-121, 2015. 2020) or Sadai et al. Marshall, M. Russell, L.S.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the cap-and-trade program had argued that it was not authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and that the requirement to purchase emissions allowances constituted a tax that required approval by a two-thirds majority of the State legislature.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v. United States. Written comments on the proposed consent decree must be received by Nov. 14, 2021.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

She also voiced support for the Obama administration’s 2015 sage grouse conservation plans and the Trump administration’s plans to remove wild horses and burros from public lands. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15). Steve Daines (R-MT).

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