Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 7, 2025
In that year, El Nio added to the increased warming caused by the build-up of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere, leading to that record-breaking heat. Humans have a direct effect on albedo through emitting industrial aerosols such as sulfates, which accumulate in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 25, 2025
Through this post, I’ll guide you to what I have learned about this topic, from the more well-known implications of artificial intelligence in terms of Energy to other less well-known impacts regarding water use and air pollution. That request goes to OpenAI servers (the company that created ChatGPT). A recent paper by Han et al.
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Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Last month, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report on a relatively new field of research – atmospheric methane removal. The Sabin Center contributed one of these papers on Legal Considerations for Atmospheric Methane Removal.
New Scientist
JULY 22, 2025
This warming influence is even greater in populated places, where there tends to be more air pollution. Reducing aerosol pollution is a public health imperative,” says Geeta Persad at the University of Texas at Austin. This means efforts to clean up air pollution to benefit human health come with a warming effect on the climate.
Real Climate
JULY 31, 2025
In the EPA EF reconsideration document there is a section on p62 where they attempt to make the argument that the CO 2 endangerment finding would also apply to direct water vapor emissions to the atmosphere, which is (according to them) obviously absurd. But both claims are bogus. This was the point litigated in Massachusetts v.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2025
billion pounds of air pollution during its operation and 80 malfunction and 43 violation episodes at the Beaver County facility between January 2020 and July 2024. The pollutants included benzene (a known carcinogen), 1,3-butadiene, naphthalene, and styrene. million pounds).
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 5, 2025
On June 5, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a statement saying the June 4 fire at the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County resulted in the “possible release of an unknown amount of 1,3-butadiene and benzene into the atmosphere.” Both 1,3-butadiene and benzene are known carcinogens.
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