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Street-scale pollution maps for Ireland now available
Results from CERC's modelling of street-scale air pollution in Ireland have been published as part of the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report 'Air quality in Ireland 2022'. The full CERC report with high-resolution maps for a wider range of regulated air pollutants is also available. The predicted concentrations were evaluated with measured concentrations with generally good ...
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IE Expo China 2023 Kicks Off in Shanghai with FPI Showcasing Latest Green Innovations
On April 19th, IE Expo China 2023 opened in Shanghai New International Expo Center. The exhibition was jointly organized by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, the Environmental Chamber of Commerce of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Messe Muenchen Shanghai Co., Ltd. This year's exhibition gathered 2,407 environmental protection companies from around the ...
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Free Invitation to Air Quality and Air Emissions conference and Exhibition
You are invited to join the 12th International Conference and Exhibition on Air Quality and Air Emissions Monitoring on the 12th & 13th October 2022. Registration to AQE is Free of charge for all Exhibition and Conference attendees and will be held in Telford England. First started in 2002 AQE has cemented its reputation as the leading exhibition and conference in the air Monitoring sector, ...
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ESC Spectrum Expands Product and Service Offerings, Testing Capabilities, Regional Reach with Acquisition of Monitoring Solutions
ESC Spectrum, an industry leader in air emissions monitoring and compliance, has acquired Monitoring Solutions, further growing the company’s footprint in the Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEM) market. The acquired company will operate as Monitoring Solutions, an ESC Spectrum company. Monitoring Solutions has been helping customers meet demands for air pollution monitoring and reporting ...
By ESC Spectrum
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COP26: Verifying Glasgow`s CO2 emissions using ADMS-Urban and measurements
Verification of carbon dioxide emissions is essential to achieving Net Zero and "keeping 1.5 alive". Researchers from CERC, Cambridge University, and ACOEM have collaborated on a project to verify CO2 emissions across greater Glasgow by combining measurements and CERC's ADMS-Urban air pollution dispersion model. The ongoing study, using available traffic data and emissions factors, suggests that ...
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Regional-to-local scale air quality modelling for Ireland
The Irish Environmental Protection Agency has contracted CERC to undertake regional-to-local scale air quality modelling for Ireland in order to generate air quality maps for the whole country. The project will couple regional and local scale models using CERC's ADMS-Urban Regional Model Link. This will combine regional modelling undertaken by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology using the ...
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Cority Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Environment + Energy Leader for Second Consecutive Year
Cority, the most trusted provider of environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) management solutions, today announced that its Air Emissions Site Diagram solution received a Top Product of the Year Award in the elite Environment + Energy Leader Awards program. The program’s panel of independent expert judges considers Cority’s solution a top example of the exemplary work in the ...
By Cority
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New Analysis: U.S. Power Sector Continues March Away from Coal
The U.S. power sector continues transitioning away from coal and toward zero-carbon energy resources, as the largest electricity producers continue to reduce air pollutant emissions and their corresponding contributions to climate change, according to a new analysis released recently (6/17) by Entergy. The analysis, Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the ...
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Cleaner air, longer lives
Original story at MIT News The air we breathe contains particulate matter from a range of natural and human-related sources. Particulate matter is responsible for thousands of premature deaths in the United States each year, but legislation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is credited with significantly decreasing this number, as well as the amount of particulate matter in the ...
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India introduces new Guidelines for pollution monitoring systems
Three years after mandating a continuous pollution monitoring in major industries, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has released guidelines for implementing this. The guidelines for a continuous emission monitoring system (CEMS) state how suitable monitors will be selected, installed, operated and meet compliance requirement. CEMS intends to improve environment compliance enforcement ...
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Tackling air pollution in China
Original story at MIT News A recent study estimates that about 1.6 million people in China die each year — roughly 4,000 a day — from heart, lung, and stroke disorders due to poor air quality. Most of the nation’s lethal air pollution, including headline-grabbing toxins such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone (O3), is produced in its coal-dominated energy ...
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Perfect timing for Air Quality & Emissions event
AQE 2017 will take place in Telford (UK) on 24th and 25th May at a time when the health effects of air pollution are constantly in the headlines, and when the UK Government is due to consult on its latest plans to comply with air quality guidelines in the UK’s larger towns and cities. Registration for the event is now open (www.AQEShow.com), with entry to the Exhibition and Workshops free ...
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AQE announces agenda for Air Quality Conference
The organisers of AQE 2017 (www.aqeshow.com), the international Air Quality and Emissions Show (Telford, UK, 24-25th May) have published the programme for Day 2 of the event. Developed in partnership with IAPSC (Investigation of Air Pollution Standing Conference), there will be three sessions covering: pervasive air quality monitoring; vehicle emissions monitoring and data management; and local ...
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AQE 2017 announces agenda for Air Quality Conference
The organisers of AQE 2017, the international Air Quality and Emissions Show (Telford, UK, 24-25th May) have published the programme for Day 2 of the event. Developed in partnership with IAPSC (Investigation of Air Pollution Standing Conference), there will be three sessions covering: pervasive air quality monitoring; vehicle emissions monitoring and data management; and local air quality ...
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China’s smog war moves to courts
China’s courts are to widen the range of offenses that constitute “environmental crimes” to make it easier to take legal action against polluters, a senior judiciary official told a news conference yesterday. The new rules could allow prosecutors to take on persistent offenders in northern China’s Hebei Province, which was engulfed in heavy smog last week despite being on ...
By Camfil Ltd
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Air pollution from agriculture: EU exceeds international emission limit in 2014
Ammonia emissions in Europe have fallen since 1990, but by not as much as emissions of other air pollutants tracked under an internationally agreed United Nations convention. According to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), ammonia emissions increased in 2014, meaning several EU Member States as well as the EU now exceed their respective ammonia emission limits under the ...
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CEM 2016 focuses on industrial emissions
CEM 2016, the international industrial emissions monitoring event, will run over three days in Lisbon from 18th to 20th May. Organiser Marcus Pattison says: “CEM 2016 is a technical event, providing an opportunity for experts to share knowledge and experience in order to further improve the accuracy, relevance and reliability of industrial emissions monitoring.” Comprised of a ...
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Air quality health impact assessments should use combination of metrics
Health impact assessments (HIAs) provide information on the potential health impacts of policies, and are important for developing regulation on air pollution. In this study, researchers evaluated the metrics currently used in air quality HIAs to provide recommendations for their use in policy. Clean air is important for human and environmental health. Over recent decades however air quality has ...
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Air Pollutant Emission-Rate Software for Industrial Sources is Now Available
The need for accurate methods of quantifying industrial-source emission rates of methane and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), as well as other air pollutants, has never been greater, both domestically and abroad. Today, Minnich and Scotto, Inc. (www.msiair.net) announces the availability of e-Calc© – an emissions-calculation software package to yield air pollutant emission rates from a ...
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CO2 emissions from new vehicles in Europe continued to decrease in 2014
Vehicles sold in the European Union in 2014 were, on average, 2.5% more efficient than those sold the previous year, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report, which updates the preliminary data published earlier this year, tracks progress towards CO2 emission targets for new passenger cars and vans. According to the EEA report Monitoring CO2 emissions from ...
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