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EPA's GreenChill Smart Supermarket Refrigeration Partnership Celebrates 15 Years; Recognizes 4 Supermarket Companies Serving PA

PA Environment Daily

Over the past 15 years, Partners have avoided emissions of over 500 metric tons of ozone-depleting substances and roughly 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The supermarket companies serving Pennsylvania recognized by EPA include-- -- Weis Markets - Most Improved Emissions Rate. supermarkets, or over 13,000 stores.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

However, that was written in 2007 – 15 years ago! One of our most-read old posts is the step-by-step explanation for why increasing CO 2 is a significant problem ( The CO2 problem in 6 easy steps ).

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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. With that in mind, I’ve put together some brief timelines.

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Reducing Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenbuilding Law

Additionally, indirect emissions from electricity use by homes and businesses increased from 1990 to 2007 but have decreased since then to approximately 10% below 1990 levels in 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions from on-site direct emissions in homes and businesses have increased by 2% since 1990. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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The Dirty Truth of Michigan v. EPA

Vermont Law

It is the first “anti-environmental” decision in the CAA realm since their 2007. in 2007 and a contrast to Justice Scalia’s opinion in. where the Court held that EPA could not consider cost when setting air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter. Supreme Court in . Michigan v. Massachusetts v. whether to .

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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

Pegged for launch in 2007 at a cost of $1bn, in 2002 it was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after the former NASA administrator. Yet those dreams of a new telescope to study the evolution of galaxies and how stars and planets form quickly turned into a nightmare. But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.

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Will EPA Follow the Science and Protect Us from Ozone Pollution?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) released a draft set of recommendations calling on the EPA to tighten its current standard for ground-level ozone pollution to protect public health. But will the EPA follow CASAC’s recommendations?

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