Environmental News Bits

JUNE 10, 2022

EPA’s Science to Achieve Results Program (STAR) awarded over $4 million to seven universities to advance air measurement and monitoring methods for air toxics and contaminants of emerging concern in the atmosphere.

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New Scientist

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere but researchers still disagree on the size of this effect

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. First, there’s air pollution.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 3, 2022

The archival record of its early years reveals the extent to which efforts to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations interacted closely with one of the most hotly debated political issues of the mid-twentieth century: urban air pollution. NIWA's Baring Head monitoring station (Dave Allen).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Eliminating gasoline combustion also means getting rid of harmful pollutant emissions like nitrogen oxides and reactive organic gases. pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per gallon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

The increase regional VPD is mostly attributed to human-cause climate change (68%) and the rest (32%) is attributed to variations in the atmospheric circulation. High atmospheric “thirst” over multiple seasons or years can lead to drought conditions as vegetation dries out, and water flow in streams and rivers decreases.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Students who are interested in conservation biology may often be interested in other issues like air pollution; they may also seek jobs that address sustainability as a broad topic. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

These included Biden climate-change regulations, but also protections against air pollution that are important to public health and water pollution limits for coal plants. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery in understanding how air pollution forms at the molecular level. Their investigation sheds light on the complex chemical processes occurring at the boundary between liquid, in particular aqueous solutions, and vapor in our atmosphere.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants. The aim was to rein in atmospheric sulfur oxide emissions, which are known to be a threat to public health and the environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. In other words, both industries intend to keep producing ever more of their products—and therefore increasing overall pollution— just with each unit of product having slightly lower emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Join with the Evangelical Environmental Network , Moms Clean Air Force , Pipeline Safety Trust , and Healthfirst PA on June 5 for a webinar on the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's proposed rule to cut methane leaks from natural gas pipelines starting at Noon. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7

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Capaccio

APRIL 19, 2022

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) recently updated the Administrative Rule Env-A 1400: Regulated Toxic Air Pollutants (RTAPs). The rule sets ambient air limits (AALs) on listed RTAPs that are emitted into the atmosphere. link] . .

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 16, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Conservation District released a study linking contamination in Pittsburgh’s urban soils to historical air pollution emissions and atmospheric inversions. Urban soils are known to contain various harmful contaminants that pose health risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution. The current carbon-based energy system has serious downsides.

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Breezometer

MARCH 7, 2022

in Atmospheric Science). Given this desire and my aims to improve awareness of air pollution, I came to join the ranks of BreezoMeter’s team of environmental superheroes as their Chief Scientist! The experience I got in coding and my interest in atmospheric science brought me to work at BreezoMeter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2024

The spectrum of colors viewed by the PACE satellite can identify different phytoplankton species in the ocean and a variety of aerosols in the atmosphere, helping researchers identify threats to the health of people and the planet.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Health Effects Institute conducts independent research into the health impacts air pollution and, through the related HEI Energy affiliate, the health impacts of onshore development of oil and natural gas in the US. Registration Click Here to register. For all the details, visit the HEI Annual Conference webpage.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

As I progressed in my education, I became fascinated with how some chemicals behave similarly when they interact in the environment, such as organic chemicals in salt marshes or mercury in the atmosphere. Some chemical compounds have the same atoms, but because they are arranged somewhat differently, they can have different properties.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Alaska Supreme Court suggested Alaskans might have a right to atmosphere, but declined to provide a remedy. Atmospheric public trust plaintiffs are running out of options. The Alaska Supreme Court denies relief, but signals that Alaskans may have a public trust right to preservation of the atmosphere. air pollution. ,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Regan for their proposal strengthening safeguards against hazardous air pollutants under the life-saving Mercury and Air Toxics Standard. The MATS rule has been a proven success in slashing toxic air pollution, but medical research shows that no level of mercury is safe.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Detlev Helmig: Colorado atmospheric scientist and air pollution expert – Speaking on data his team is presently collecting at an oil refinery in Denver, Colorado which involves the first ever continual real-time monitoring of oil and gas industry radioactive emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 9, 2025

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere but researchers still disagree on the size of this effect. Read the full story at New Scientist.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

This advisory opinion finds that UNCLOS regulates all sources of GHG emissions into the atmosphere as pollution of the marine environment; consequently, States Parties have specific obligations under UNCLOS to address their GHG emissions. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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Breezometer

JULY 6, 2021

Governments, agencies, and scientific bodies tend to use a range of environmental monitoring methods to set emission standards and inform on pollution levels, conservation efforts, sustainable water management, and even measure economic impacts. Some examples of methods used to collect data include: Air pollution monitoring stations.

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Breezometer

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As the complexity of ozone pollution is often misunderstood, let's take a closer look at this particular pollutant. The protective ozone layer which exists in the upper atmosphere is vital to life on earth. Good Ozone’: Our Essential Sun Shield. How is Ozone Created?

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When peatlands burn, the stored CO2 gets released into the atmosphere, together other GHGs such as carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4). The accompanying smoke plumes contribute to air pollution, affecting wildlife and human health. Deforestation fires emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

This was a bad week for unconventional shale gas drillers who DEP inspectors found creating a new brownfield, unreported defective well casing or cementing on eight wells venting gas to the atmosphere and more spills. DEP noted these were continuing violations from January 22. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Background CNX reported on air monitoring from two monitors at each site-- one upwind and one downwind-- for a limited number of parameters-- Particulate Matter 2.5 No information from CNX correlated well development, waste handling, spills or unanticipated air pollution releases or other activities at any of the well pads or other sites.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

The NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team , or HAQAST, is collaborating with health departments, county and state agencies, and university researchers to get the word out about its satellite data. AQAST was instrumental in showing how satellites can ‘see’ trends in air pollution, even in areas where no other monitors exist.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Over a 20 year period, methane is estimated to be more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere. Quick Acting Impact : Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, this false solution will foist more waste and air pollution on a community that is already overburdened with both. Instead of subsidizing these polluting waste and fossil-burning projects, the government should invest in truly renewable energy, which is a cleaner and more affordable source of power.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’re lucky to have the full gambit of atmospheric scientists, product experts, marketing and technical specialists at BreezoMeter, meaning we’re well equipped to answer the public’s burning questions in an informed and thorough way.

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