Emissions Inventory Articles
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Air Pollution and Traffic: Monitoring Strategies for Reducing Emissions in Big Cities
TL;DR - Vehicle emissions comprise a significant portion of global air pollution, with vehicles responsible for a wide range of pollutants known to be harmful to human and environmental health - including particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic compounds, and ground-level ozone. Traffic-related pollution is made worse by idling and traffic congestion, which causes a build-up of ...
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Tethered balloons take airborne measurements to new heights
French companies EONEF and ECOMESURE have joined forces to help monitor atmospheric pollutants better. Committed to environmentally-friendly projects, both firms are giving a new lift to air quality monitoring thanks to tethered balloons outfitted with microsensors. This innovation in monitoring the vertical distribution of airborne pollutants provides a clearer picture of dispersion ...
By Ecomesure
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Managing Methane Risks: Investors on Emissions
As investors continue to understand and identify financial, reputational and regulatory risks associated to methane emissions in the oil and gas industry, they are strengthening their stance on climate. According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), investors expect the oil and gas industry to transition operations and corporate strategy to a low-carbon economy. According to “An ...
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From Major to Insignificant Sources, Helping Compliance Managers Streamline - Case Study
Throughout the last half-century, Shell has helped the gamut of industries, from insignificant and exempt sources seeking government documentation, to major source facilities with the full range of their issues. Although we offer the full scope of environmental media compliance, we’ve traditionally specialized in ambient air issues and opportunities such ...
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A Smooth Transition To Net Zero Requires A Strategic Plan
In the recently released IPCC report “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”, one of the conclusions was that “multiple climate hazards will occur simultaneously, and multiple climatic and non-climatic risks will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions.” The IPCC doesn’t ...
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Ultrafine Particles Overview: What are they and Where do they come from?
What are ultrafine particles and why is it an emerging concern? Ultrafine particles (UFPs) belong to a class of primary air pollutants called particulate matter (PM). Other types of PM include coarse particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). With a diameter of 0.1 micron or less, UFPs are the smallest known particles of ...
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9 Reasons Why Odour Monitoring is Crucial for Landfills
Odour is a perception of smell, it may range from an unpleasant odour (like the rotten smell of garbage) to a pleasant one (fragrance). The effect of odour varies from person to person, but at significantly higher concentrations, harmful odours may have a direct effect on human health. It generally leads to vomiting, headaches, nausea, stress, anxiety, frustration, restriction in outdoor ...
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EPA Proposes Changes to Key Refrigerant & HVAC/R Requirements
EPA Proposed Rule tackles HCFCs, compliance reporting, & refrigerant imports Last week the EPA published a proposed rule signed by Andrew Wheeler specifically addressing regulations on HCFC production and consumption, phase-outs, compliance reporting, labeling, refrigerant imports and destruction. They will be opening for public comment soon on this 165 page collection of regulatory changes, ...
By Trakref Inc.
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Intraurban Variability of Ambient PM Arsenic and Other Air Toxics Metals in St. Louis
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) and Washington University participated in a project to collect and analyze air toxics metals data. It was funded through a Community Air Toxics Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). The study grew out of the southside St. Louis Community Air Project (CAP) which identified six hazardous air pollutants of concern including ...
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Model-Measurement Consistency and Limits of Bioaerosol Abundance Over the Continental United States
Abstract. Due to low concentrations and chemical complexity, in-situ observations of bioaerosol are geographically and temporally sparse, and this limits the accuracy of current emissions inventories. In this study, we apply a new methodology, including corrections for misidentification of mineral dust, to measurements of single particles over four airborne sampling campaigns to derive vertical ...
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EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook 2016
1 Guidebook Introduction 1.1 Introduction The joint EMEP (1)/EEA Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Guidebook (the 'Guidebook'), following the 'Guidelines for Reporting Emissions and Projections Data' under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) (2), provides concise guidance on how to compile an atmospheric emissions ...
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Environmental Regulatory Compliance Practitioner Spotlight: Pete Schwalbach
Name: Pete Schwalbach Office: St Paul Practice Area: OPA Area of expertise: Environmental Regulatory Compliance About Me in 140 Characters Happily married, father of three, environmental regulatory consultant! Favorite Thing about Being an OPA Practitioner The wide diversity of very interesting industries that I get a chance learn about as I conduct my work ranging from steel mills to beer ...
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European Union emission inventory report 1990–2014 under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
This document is the annual European Union (EU) emission inventory report to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). The report and its accompanying data constitute the official submission by the European Commission (EC) on behalf of the EU as a Party to the Executive Secretary of UNECE. The report is compiled by the ...
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Air quality assessment in the EU: room for improvement?
Different modelling approaches are used to design and assess air quality plans across Europe. This study assessed the strengths and weaknesses of these different approaches. The researchers conclude that a large variety of models is in use, without a preferred or standard model having emerged yet. They identify integrating local-scale and large-scale models and verifying models with measurements ...
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CDP climate and water disclosure support – Case Study
Challenge: After publically releasing a sustainability policy and report in 2012, a global food production and service provider elected to respond to the 2013 CDP Investor (Climate Change) and Water questionnaires. This leader in the food industry sought the assistance of Antea Group to guide them through the first time response process to ensure stakeholders received an accurate, ...
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Evaluation of diesel fleet emissions and control policies from plume chasing measurements of on-road vehicles
Abstract Vehicle emissions are an important source of urban air pollution. Diesel fuelled vehicles, although constituting a relatively small fraction of fleet population in many cities, are significant contributors to the emission inventory due to their often long mileage for goods and public transport. Recent classification of diesel exhaust as carcinogenic by the World Health Organization ...
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European Union emission inventory report 1990–2013 under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP)
This document is the annual European Union (EU) emission inventory report to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) (UNECE, 1979). The report and its accompanying data constitute the official submission by the European Commission (EC) on behalf of the EU as a Party to the Executive Secretary of UNECE. The report is ...
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NEC Directive Status Report 2014
Reporting by Member States under Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants This report describes the most recent emission inventory information provided by the Member States of the European Union (EU) at the end of 2014, under Directive 2001/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the ...
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Projections in hindsight - An assessment of past emission projections reported by Member States under EU air pollution and GHG legislation
Over the past decade, European Union (EU) Member States were required to regularly compile and report official estimates of their projected (future) emissions for the year 2010 under two complementary pieces of legislation: for greenhouse gases (GHGs), the Monitoring Mechanism Decision (MMD), i.e. Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 ...
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PRTRval: a software tool for the validation of E-PRTR emissions data
The European pollutant release and transfer register (E-PRTR) is the Europe-wide emissions register that provides accessible environmental information about industrial facilities. Reporting of E-PRTR data to the European Commission requires that the member states assess the quality of their data. The errors and omissions in these data should be detected during the review process and corrected, ...
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