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The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 2024 State of the Air report I work every day on topics related to air in my role as a Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, through my volunteer grassroots work, and because I want to be a well-informed resident in the San Joaquin Valley. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1)

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

It was a familiarly stark report card on the world’s progress on cutting emissions from the IPCC, which has been monitoring climate change since 1988. Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising.

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

For example, recent attention has focused on tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone smog, which is formed by atmospheric reactions on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). º C, viewed by climate scientists as a critical threshold to avoid catastrophic impacts.