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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.
Smith Enviorment
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. ’s current ozone SIP based on vehicle emission inspections in 19 N.C. House Bill 259, Sec.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Columbia Climate Law
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.
Law Columbia
MARCH 13, 2023
EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration. EPA , 549 U.S.
PA Environment Daily
JULY 25, 2022
They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide.
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