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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. AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.”

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in. “Natural gas” was a marketing term for this then-new, safer gas pumped through urban distribution pipes starting in the 1940s. the absence of air.