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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% In addition, the atmosphere contains water vapor, whose amount is highly variable but typically 1% volume mixing ratio.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Out of sight, out of mind: The vulnerable world beneath our feet

HumanNature

For example, bacteria & fungi play particularly important roles in recycling dead plant tissue into the basic nutrients (e.g., They are the processes that allow our food to grow, clean the air we breathe, and attempt to keep atmospheric temperatures in check. nitrogen) that are required for living plants to grow.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. 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.

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Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities

Ocean Conservancy

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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Speaking of Water: “How Do We Consider Mass Resettlement Of The World Population?” With Parag Khanna

Circle of Blue

It could be atmospheric, sulfur injections and that kind of stuff. And supply chain of that, because you obviously have a lot of waste that’s generated that you don’t want to be dumping back into the sea. I mean, places where they’re rising sea levels, you need a new infrastructure strategy.

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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI

PA Environment Daily

In 1970 in the Boston Globe newspaper, there was a scientist from the atmospheric research in Boulder, Colorado predicted that an ice age would be upon us by the 21st century. And I think the Sean Stuffy said about the windmills have, I think it's 90 tons of steel, 45 tons of non-recyclable plastics, and about 2,500 tons of concrete.