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Tar Sands Companies Underreported Pollution Levels By Up To 6300 Per Cent

Enviromental Defense

Carbon organic compounds are carbon-containing gases and vapors such as gasoline fumes and solvents (but excluding carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and chlorofluorocarbons).

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon.