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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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The Ozone Hole Showed Humans Could Damage Earth and That We Could Heal It

Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The discovery of a hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1985 led to a worldwide effort to heal it, but are there lessons that can be applied to today’s treaty talks on climate change?

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Ozone layer treaty will slow climate change by protecting plants

New Scientist

AUGUST 18, 2021

The international treaty to protect the ozone layer has had the inadvertent benefit of protecting plants and avoiding up to 1°C of future climate change this century, almost as much as the world has warmed to date.

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The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

Yale E360

MAY 18, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read more on E360 →

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Ozone Treaty Delayed Arctic Melting by 15 Years

Scientific American

MAY 23, 2023

The Montreal Protocol was intended to save Earth’s ozone layer, but it also helped slow global warming and delayed the melting of Arctic sea ice

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Air Pollution & Climate Change: Global Phenomena, Individual Consequences

Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As COP26 gets underway this week in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Meteorological Association warns that the past seven years are set to be the warmest on record, we thought this the right time to explore the associated impacts of climate change on the air we breathe. As average temperatures rise, ozone levels accelerate.

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New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

By Bob Berwyn After sampling the atmosphere above the Arctic for more than a year during the MOSAiC research voyage , climate scientists say the ozone layer, Earth’s protection against intense ultraviolet radiation, is at risk, despite the progress made in protecting atmospheric ozone by the 1987 Montreal Protocol , the global treaty that banned ozone-harming (..)

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Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

Inside Climate News

MARCH 17, 2022

New research warns that wildfire emissions could unravel progress made under the Montreal Protocol to shrink atmospheric ozone holes.

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Australia's Massive Wildfires Shredded the Ozone Layer--Now Scientists Know Why

Scientific American

MARCH 10, 2023

Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–2020 fires in Australia unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere

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Climate Change and Me

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

The first climate change presentation I saw was back in the 1970s when I was working for the National Weather Service. Murray Mitchell, was the top climate scientist for NWS. While that got the bulk of the publicity, Dr. Mitchell assured us that the warming of the climate would be the biggest problem in the future.

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Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2023

By Phil McKenna Emissions of a small group of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals that destroy Earth’s protective ozone layer and fuel global warming, are back on the rise after their production was all but banned more than a decade ago, a new study concludes.

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Ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming by 0.5°C

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2023

The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, with the global phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals already benefitting efforts to mitigate climate change. Read the full story from the UN Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Association.

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Women Voices on Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”

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Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs

Successful Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The world’s oceans are a vast repository... The post Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs appeared first on successful GREEN. As atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11 drop, the global ocean should become a source of the chemical by the middle of next century, a new MIT study predicts.

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EPA Awards Research Grants For Investigating Cumulative Health Impacts Of Climate Change On Underserved Communities, Including In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $21,410,211 in grant funding to 16 institutions for community-based research to examine how climate change may compound adverse environmental conditions and stressors for vulnerable populations in underserved communities. On February 27, the U.S. Read more here. -- RAND Corp.,

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Centering Public Health at the UN Climate Talks

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climate change. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. More than ever before.

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How climate change may impact ozone pollution and public health through the 21st century

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate researchers are learning that warming temperatures and heat waves resulting from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could adversely affect air quality in the United States and increase deaths from air pollution exposure. This effect is referred to as the “climate penalty.” Read the full story from U.S.

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

A new paper by Ben Santer and colleagues has appeared in PNAS where they extend their previous work on the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change to include the upper stratosphere, using observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Units (SSUs) (and their successors, the AMSU instruments) that have flown since 1979.

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What If We Succeed?

Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2021

Suppose we bring climate change under control and deal with its fallout. Untamed climate change means an dangerous, ugly future for all of us on “Spaceship Earth.” I’m asking about something different, however: how will the world be better off than it would have been if climate change had never been a problem?

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New Study Finds Climate Change Exacerbates Neighborhood Smog

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This groundbreaking report is important for three main reasons: impact, scale, and attribution.

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Volcano That Blasted Seawater into the Stratosphere May Have Damaged Ozone Layer

Scientific American

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of an atomic weapon. The disaster has launched dozens of new studies about global warming

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The upper atmosphere is cooling, prompting new climate concerns

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather. Read the full story from e360.

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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Asthma inhalers create a shocking amount of emissions. This major drug company is redesigning them

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 5, 2024

Climate change is making asthma worse, as hotter temperatures increase ozone pollution and wildfires and make pollen season longer. But asthma, ironically, is also making climate change worse: Inhalers use chemicals that are as much as 3,600 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

No serious person is advocating for any large-scale deployment of solar geoengineering or substituting it for other urgent climate change mitigations, so the shorthand use of “opponent” or “supporter” is itself misleading and pushes voices to extremes. Anyone can float a balloon. Critics believe it is the path to catastrophe.”

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State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards

Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Why the Bay Area’s Zero-Emission Appliance Rule is a Big Deal

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Research shows that halting the burning of fossil fuels in homes and businesses is beneficial for the health of residents and vital to combat climate change. Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone.

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Ozone Hole Would Have Killed Plants and Raised Global Temperatures

Scientific American

AUGUST 20, 2021

Without the Montreal Protocol, more solar radiation would have destroyed plants, lessening the CO2 they absorb. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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EPA Grant Program Helps to Accelerate Transition to Cleaner Ports

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

The vehicles, vessels, and equipment that move our freight create hot spots of some of the worst air quality in the country and contribute significantly to climate change. However, zero-emission options for these workhorses of the economy are growing rapidly and some ports are beginning to move towards cleaner operations.

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The Feds

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

28 Public Info Sessions [PaEN] -- Reading Eagle: Contaminated Land Around Berks Battery Plant Site Proposed For Federal Superfund List -- AP: EPA Delays New Ozone Pollution Standards Until After 2024 Election -- PA Capital-Star: PA Cong. 24 Features Headliner Bands [Posted: September 10, 2023]

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A Mysterious Rise in Banned Chemicals Is Warming the Planet

Scientific American

APRIL 4, 2023

A new study documents the mysterious presence of five banned chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals that not only deplete the ozone layer but also contribute to global warming

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Congress Considers First-Ever Purchase Incentive for Commercial EVs

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is one of the most consequential tasks in reducing climate-warming greenhouse gases and toxic air pollution from the transportation sector. These policies will complement the important provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

I followed with great interest the launch of the sixth assessment report Working Group 1 (The Physical Science Basis) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9th. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere.

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DEP Posted 74 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 20 PA Bulletin

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 20 PA Bulletin inviting comments on changes to its technical guidance for the review of wastewater and drinking water projects to be funded by the federal State Revolving Loan/Grant Program. Blair County. ( Berks County. ( PA Bulletin, page 2128 ) Read more here.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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'Don't Look Up’ – Does Climate Tech Give Us a Better Chance Than the Netflix Movie?

Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

While the movie might seem pessimistic to many, our hope is that climate tech innovation and rising awareness will assist us all in the creation of a positive, safe and healthy future. Climate Change is No Laughing Matter. But it’s up to all of us to act. By the 2040s, wildfire numbers could increase by 32% and burn area by 33%.

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Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

Inside Climate News

JUNE 29, 2022

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ rockets burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen and pose a lesser climate threat. By Phil McKenna The burgeoning space tourism industry could soon fuel significant global warming while also depleting the protective ozone layer that is crucial for sustaining life on Earth, a new study concludes.

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China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. This is replacing the traditional hydrofluorocarbons which have been found to damage the ozone layer. Photo credit: Beijing 2022. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Wildfires Are Fueling a Toxic Combo of Air Pollutants

Scientific American

JANUARY 6, 2022

population to a stew of particulate matter and ozone. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. The 2020 fire season subjected half the western U.S.

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. Green-roofs are an overlooked solution to the complex problem of heat pollution, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change.

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Huge gaps in detection networks plague emissions monitoring

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 4, 2021

Plug gaps to measure ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases and verify compliance with Paris and Montreal treaties. Read the full story at Nature. Read more →

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DEP Posts 75 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 22 PA Bulletin

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

formal notice ) PA Bulletin - April 22, 2023 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 75 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the April 22 PA Bulletin - pages 2193 to 2268.

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DEP Awards $1.5 Million To Help Municipalities, Schools, Businesses Switch To Clean Transportation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This funding builds on Governor Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

The Ozone Hole Showed Humans Could Damage Earth and That We Could Heal It

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Ozone layer treaty will slow climate change by protecting plants

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The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns

Ozone Treaty Delayed Arctic Melting by 15 Years

Air Pollution & Climate Change: Global Phenomena, Individual Consequences

New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

Recent Megafire Smoke Columns Have Reached the Stratosphere, Threatening Earth’s Ozone Shield

Australia's Massive Wildfires Shredded the Ozone Layer--Now Scientists Know Why

Climate Change and Me

Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

Ozone layer recovery is on track, helping avoid global warming by 0.5°C

Women Voices on Climate Change

Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs

EPA Awards Research Grants For Investigating Cumulative Health Impacts Of Climate Change On Underserved Communities, Including In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

Centering Public Health at the UN Climate Talks

How climate change may impact ozone pollution and public health through the 21st century

CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

What If We Succeed?

New Study Finds Climate Change Exacerbates Neighborhood Smog

Volcano That Blasted Seawater into the Stratosphere May Have Damaged Ozone Layer

The upper atmosphere is cooling, prompting new climate concerns

Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Asthma inhalers create a shocking amount of emissions. This major drug company is redesigning them

The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy

This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air

State Air Regulations Can Go Above and Beyond National Standards

Why the Bay Area’s Zero-Emission Appliance Rule is a Big Deal

Ozone Hole Would Have Killed Plants and Raised Global Temperatures

EPA Grant Program Helps to Accelerate Transition to Cleaner Ports

The Feds

A Mysterious Rise in Banned Chemicals Is Warming the Planet

Congress Considers First-Ever Purchase Incentive for Commercial EVs

Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

DEP Posted 74 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 20 PA Bulletin

Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

'Don't Look Up’ – Does Climate Tech Give Us a Better Chance Than the Netflix Movie?

Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’

China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?

Wildfires Are Fueling a Toxic Combo of Air Pollutants

Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Huge gaps in detection networks plague emissions monitoring

DEP Posts 75 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In April 22 PA Bulletin

DEP Awards $1.5 Million To Help Municipalities, Schools, Businesses Switch To Clean Transportation

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