Atmosphere Ozone Politics 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. It was not a catchy slogan to write on a cardboard sign, but the message is important to all of our lives.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
But it’s not totally clear what he meant, because “climate change” was used at the time to refer to a range of issues including acid rain, damage to the ozone layer, local weather control efforts, and desertification. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.
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Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. And political power with it. Just lack of political capital. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs.
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.
Environmental Science
JULY 22, 2018
Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
A magistrate judge in the federal district court for the District of Oregon granted motions by three trade groups to withdraw from the lawsuit seeking to hold the United States liable for its actions and inaction leading to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. June 16, 2017).
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