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US EPA proposes to tighten ground-level ozone standards
On Jan. 7, 2010, USEPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the agency will propose to lower the ambient air quality standard for ozone to its most stringent level ever. Smog, measured as ground-level ozone, is composed of many compounds formed by chemical reactions involving VOCs and nitrogen-containing compounds catalyzed by sunlight. Smog has been linked to a number of serious public health problems, from an increase in asthma to increased risk of premature death due to heart or lung disease. ... |
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GHG Protocol Initiative - A step forward in GHG emissions calculations
With the GHG Protocol 60 companies will look comprehensively at the impact of their corporate value chains, reports Envido. On January 20th, the GHG Protocol Initiative announced that 60 companies had started measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of their products and supply chains by testing a new global framework, part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), a U.S. based environmental NGO, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development ... |
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- 2010 predictions
Our thoughts are below on what may be headed our way in 2010 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA) Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and ...
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At the end of 2009 I was fortunate enough to attend the Seacourt Seminar - `Sustainability....Moving Forwards`. The seminar promised to look at exciting ...
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In midtown Manhattan, home of the nation’s priciest office space, the equivalent of 16 office towers, each 40 stories high, now stand empty. This statistic, ...
- Climate change and CO2 in the oceans and global oceans governance
This paper describes some of the effects climate change is having on the oceans and some of the resulting implications for international oceans governance. ...
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