Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

Smoke haze impacts multiple countries across Southeast Asia every year, affecting agriculture, economy, and health to such a degree it’s become known as the ‘Asian haze’ phenomenon and created major public outcry for better air quality management solutions. What Causes The ‘Southeast Asian Haze’? What Exactly Causes the Haze Smoke?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Orphan wells can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and pollute groundwater. Methane is especially hazardous, being up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide, which poses a potential risk to life and property, significantly warming the planet, and contributing to harmful air pollution.

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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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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Climate Change Mitigation.

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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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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

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. And how are they linked to wildfire, air pollution and other hazards? This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate. There’s a better way forward.

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Agriculture’s global environmental footprint The agriculture sector is responsible for 23% of net global greenhouse gas emissions. Methane is 28 times more powerful than CO 2 at trapping warming in our atmosphere over one-hundred years, and nitrous oxide is even more potent – 265 times more powerful than CO 2. Credit: Amy Swan.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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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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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising. Transportation needs a revolution too as cities worldwide are suffocating from air pollution and traffic congestion.

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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. This makes methane reduction crucial for addressing the urgency of climate change and buying time for the development and implementation of longer term greenhouse gas strategies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change.

Nitrogen Oxides 52

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. This directly impacts human health and wealth. The tub is still filling.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

600 per cent more by 2040 – which is going to add a lot more climate pollution to the atmosphere! TAKE ACTION: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power . Even though they are used infrequently, Ontario’s gas plants are already among the biggest polluters in the province. How much more?

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Nitrogen Oxides Greenhouse 2030 98

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offshore drilling threatens our ocean and wildlife with oil spills , creates toxic air pollution and—most of all—worsens and deepens the climate crisis. We need to cut out this unwise provision and make the Inflation Reduction Act a law that fights climate change without a giant offshore drilling asterisk.

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Fossil Fuels Ocean Clean Energy Conservation 97

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offshore drilling threatens our ocean and wildlife with oil spills , creates toxic air pollution and—most of all—worsens and deepens the climate crisis. We need to cut out this unwise provision and make the Inflation Reduction Act a law that fights climate change without a giant offshore drilling asterisk.

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Fossil Fuels Ocean Clean Energy Conservation 52

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. But so have methane emissions (which natural gas is mostly made of) – an extremely potent greenhouse gas which leaks unburned at every stage of natural gas production, from fracking to combustion. Source: IESO Annual Planning Outlook (updated Feb 2021).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

That’s why my Administration is tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process. “I That invisible gas, that is the methane that’s leaking into our atmosphere every day – and we can do something about it. “I

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

These generators release this into the atmosphere and substantially reduce air quality in the nearby regions. ” So using diesel generators may be very welcome, but they produce a lot of air pollution and greenhouse gases and are thus not the best solution to provide local electricity generation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2023

That’s why my Administration is tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process. “I That invisible gas, that is the methane that’s leaking into our atmosphere every day – and we can do something about it. “I

Natural Resources 98

Natural Resources Air Pollution Environmental Protection Greenhouse 98

A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. Research has estimated that the soil could keep from the atmosphere the equivalent of 23.8

Atmosphere 52

Atmosphere 2016 Carbon Dioxide Environmental Protection 52

Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

News Briefs Air Pollution Proposal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen air pollution standards for coal-fired power plants, a regulatory move that would also improve water quality and reduce the accumulation of pollutants in fish. government water policy.

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Air Pollution Clean Water Act Carbon Dioxide 2023 130

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In Shirley, individual Republican legislators and various entities associated with two coal-fired power plants challenged a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) greenhouse gas control regulation. The regulation would enable the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). McKinstry, Jr. and John C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. On December 2, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SW: Fertilizer companies encourage the industrial agriculture sector to overapply its product, and when all of that synthetic nitrogen-based fertilizer is sprayed on soil, nitrous oxide is emitted into the atmosphere. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.

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Clean Water Act Carbon Dioxide Clean Air Act Climate Change 292

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Minority Report Conclusion “The bottom line is, there is simply no suitable location for an LNG facility in Philadelphia or Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Natural Gas 2018 Air Pollution Climate Change 94

Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

Regulations 52

Regulations Natural Gas Air Pollution Ground-Level Ozone 52

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

On February 28, Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and John Yudichak (I-Luzerne) sent a letter to the Independent Fiscal Office last week requesting an audit of modeling used to justify Pennsylvania’s entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

PA Congressional Lawmakers Want Commitment National Institutes Of Environmental Health To Help Respond To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment -- Post-Gazette Editorial: PA’s U.S.

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