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

HumanNature

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 million deaths globally (Cohen et al.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8

PA Environment Daily

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) -- Sunoco Pipeline - Tinicum Release Site: DEP received a Remedial Investigation Report/ Cleanup Plan on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with unleaded gasoline in Tinicum Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Delaware County. ( PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) --Coterra Energy, Inc. -

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. I have been advocating this since the writing of my Master’s thesis at Audencia all the way back to 2006.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. He emphasized that “The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized.”.

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Do We Dare Continue to Flare?

Vermont Law

8) Conversely, under President Biden, the EPA has advanced the new Clean Air Act rule to significantly and environmentally reduce methane emissions and other health-harming air pollutants that put nearby communities at risk. (9) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

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Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air And Water After The East Palestine, Oh Derailment

Vermont Law

The CDC has also updated its toxicological profile and sent out a draft for public comment in January, but this draft eliminates much of the safety concerns printed in the original profile report (and most notably, has had little revision since its publication in 2006, until weeks before the derailment in East Palestine).