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Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Another Study Identifies Health Risks During Unconventional Oil & Gas Production Even For Those Living Within 1,000 Feet Or More Of Wells

PA Environment Daily

We collaborated with researchers from Colorado State University, Ajax Analytics, and the Colorado School of Public Health to study the cumulative risks posed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ozone to communities living along Colorados Front Range.

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The 2024 Election Outcome Could Boost the Case for Geoengineering

Legal Planet

Other approaches involve greater risk, like genetic engineering of plants to increase their carbon absorption or changing ocean chemistry to do so. On the positive side, the National Academy of Sciences says solar geoengineering “ could reduce surface temperatures and potentially ameliorate some risks posed by climate change (e.g.,

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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

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

Inside Climate News

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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Ozone Hole Would Have Killed Plants and Raised Global Temperatures

Scientific American

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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Federal Grants: Duct Tape or Catalyst for Environmental and Climate Justice? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) On September 20, 2023, EPA announced the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6

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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?

Ocean Conservancy

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.