[Source: The Los Angeles Time] Southern California air quality regulators delayed action on a major smog-reduction plan Friday after hours of public testimony and debate about what steps should be taken to curb the nation’s worst air pollution over the next 15 years. The South Coast Air Quality Management District board voted 9-3 to postpone Read More…
Tag: ozone
Can the AQMD raise $1 billion a year to clean up the air?
[Source: 89.3KPCC] Just a month before the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board is set to vote on a controversial air quality plan, environmentalists remain fiercely skeptical of where the agency plans to get billions of dollars for pollution control incentives. A new smog-reduction plan revealed last year calls for $15 billion in financial Read More…
Here’s proof we can solve global environmental problems if we try
[Source: The Huffington Post] “We can now be confident that the things we’ve done have put the planet on a path to heal,” one scientist says. Nearly three decades ago, a group of alarmed policymakers, armed with data about a large — and growing — hole in the ozone layer, met in Montreal and agreed Read More…
Ozone hole over Antarctica is closing, reports Science
[Source: Reason.com] In the 1980s, researchers discovered that the protective stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica was thinning. Since stratospheric ozone reduces the amount of damaging ultraviolet light from the sun that reaches the surface, this was potentially very bad news. Scientists quickly identified chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) widely used as coolants in refrigerators, air conditioners, and as Read More…
Antarctic ozone hole shows signs of healing
[Source: Science Recorder] Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Leeds have discovered that the ozone layer above Antarctica has been slowly healing, a recent study published in the journal Science reports. The ozone layer is a section of the Earth’s atmosphere that shields the planet from harmful ultraviolet rays. However, greenhouse gas Read More…