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MAY 20, 2021

Ohio EPA has proposed rules that will require additional Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emission controls for certain manufacturing and industrial operations located in the Cincinnati and Cleveland 2015 ozone nonattainment areas. Like VOCs, NOx is a precursor compound which can form ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and around the world worsen smog and ozone, threatening adults and children with respiratory or cardiac issues and increase the spread of vector-borne diseases like Lyme Disease. “We The higher temperatures we are seeing in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

more than 25 million people (7.9%), including six million children, have asthma (CDC, 2018). NOx and VOCs mix in the presence of sunlight to form ground level ozone (smog). 2018), examined the quality of life impacts on 34 residents who lived and worked amid UNGD in Appalachian eastern Ohio. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These pollutants contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, which EPA has shown has negative health impacts, including asthma attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Annually the project will remove 3.9 tons of NOx and other pollutants from the air. million settlement with Volkswagen.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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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Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

As recently as 2018, when the cost was about to break the $8bn barrier, US Congress had to vote to provide it with more funds. The JWST is now estimated to cost $9.7bn and part of the reason behind those ballooning costs was building a telescope of its enormous size. But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

Bakersfield, Fresno, and Visalia are consistently ranked as cities with the worst particulate and ozone pollution , according to the American Lung Association. and ozone concentrations highlighting air quality issues in the Central Valley. Annual average PM2.5 Graphics from CalEnviroScreen 4.0

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“The commitments under the settlements will significantly reduce pollution from these companies’ operations, including volatile organic compounds that contribute to ground-level ozone, and methane, a potent greenhouse gas.” The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. 5] Additionally, the reaction of these volatile chemicals contributes to ground-level ozone production, which, unlike ozone in the stratosphere, is hazardous to human health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Between 2010 and 2018, Chevron is analyzed to have dedicated only 0.2% Fossil fuel emissions, such as particulate matter and ozone, contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, as well as deaths. Greenwashing is incredibly problematic because it works to slow and prevent climate action.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. 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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a 2021 study by Harvard University, the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, and University College London, more than eight million people died from fossil fuel pollution in 2018. Each pod replicated different pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

Methane emissions from international shipping increased by approximately 150% between 2012-2018, primarily attributed to the increase in use of LNG as a propulsion fuel with LNG accounting for around 3.8 – 4.6% times more potent than CO 2 over the near term. of energy consumed by international shipping per GHG4.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the January 25 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed corrections to regulations setting RACT requirements for major sources of NOx and VOCs related to meeting the ozone pollution standard may affect natural gas-fired power plants. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Senate did hold hearings on pipeline safety in 2018, in particular the Mariner East Pipeline, but no legislation came out of it, except for changes to the PA One Call underground utility notification system. Read more here.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 2: Source breakdown and impact overview of black carbon from the climate and clean air coalition (Climate & Clean Air Coalition 2018). AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” References Arctic Council. Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. link] Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Between 1980 and 2018, US carbon monoxide levels decreased by 83 percent, lead by 99 percent, nitrogen dioxide by 61 percent, ozone by 31 percent, and sulfur dioxide by 91 percent.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

2018 saw the technical (if not the literal) extinction of the Northern White Rhino when the last male died in an African reserve. There are many such examples of success stories around the world, some of which are listed here. Southern White Rhino.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Ozone Review Panel (Nov. NOAA NMFS – Joint Council Workgroup for Section 102 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2018 (Oct. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Science Advisory Board (Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. When Moody ran for attorney general in 2018, she promised she wouldn’t politicize the office. billion in damage in September 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

When I coauthored a 2018 peer-reviewed study in Science , for instance, I predicted where a particularly hazardous pesticide called chlorpyrifos could pollute waterways that manatees use to migrate in Florida. EN: You played a role in a 2018 lawsuit against the city of Flint, Michigan, over lead in its drinking water supply.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

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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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

The report updates the priorities identified in the 2018 Decadal Vision for ocean science and technology and describes opportunities to advance equity across the full the ocean science and technology enterprise. EPA – Public Meetings of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Panel (April 29).

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Torres Small represented a rural New Mexico district in Congress from 2018 to 2020 and has served as USDA’s undersecretary for rural development since 2021. USDA: President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Xochitl Torres Small to be the deputy secretary of Agriculture. 20 Invasive Species Programs Across Mexico Tuesday, Feb.

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ESA

MAY 23, 2022

BIO’s switch to no deadlines for core programs in 2018 did not impact the demographics of Principal Investigators (PI) receiving NSF grants, across race, general, career stage and type of home institution. EPA – Release of Draft Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Former EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler suddenly disbanded two advisory panels to the CASAC in 2018. During the Trump administrator, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt instituted a policy that banned EPA grantees from serving on agency advisory committees. The courts eventually threw out this rule. Nominations are due May 3, 2021.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Christiansen became the Forest Service chief in March 2018, after former Chief Tony Tooke resigned amid allegations of misconduct. EPA – 2021 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (June 15).

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. An EPA Inspector General Report finds that senior managers in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention altered scientific documents to support keeping the weed killer dicamba on the market in 2018.

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