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10 Air Quality Influencers You Should Know

Breezometer

Air pollution impacts every aspect of our lives, especially health. Companies across all industries now seek to integrate environmental intelligence into their offerings and provide actionable insights to improve daily health choices. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution.

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DEP Testimony Provides Overview Of Budget Request, Progress On Permitting, Environmental Justice, Infrastructure Investments, PFAS, Watershed Cleanup, Climate, Clean Energy Initiatives

PA Environment Daily

million to improve the Bureau of Air Quality’s air monitoring capabilities, with particular focus on oil and gas activity. The plugging of these wells is of vital importance as they emit potent greenhouse gases, hazardous air pollutants, and volatile organic compounds and can impact local water supplies, human health, and wildlife.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.

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Biden Administration Accelerates Federal Regulation of PFAS

Ohio Environmental Law

EPA is evaluating establishment of technology based treatment (i.e. EPA is developing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) “hazardous substances” for Spring 2022. Evaluate Technologies for Destruction and Removal of PFAS.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

On the positive side, to some degree, is the fact that our air is huge which gives us a lot of dilution. Regardless, places with high densities of emissions, such as industrialized cities, still have air pollution problems, and these are called “non-attainment areas” because those areas fail to attain one or more NAAQS.

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PFAS…The Forever Chemicals

Capaccio

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) hazardous substances would require facilities to report on these PFAS releases that meet or exceed the reportable quantity assigned to these substances. .

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The bill also would require creation and regular updating of an online repository of tools and best practices for firefighters and other emergency response personnel to reduce, limit, and prevent release of and exposure to PFAS.

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