Category Archives: Air Quality

Comparing China, the US, and India in Clean Energy Production

China Dominates Clean Energy Production and Devices, While India Consumes Little Energy Per Capita. Without getting dragged into the politics and personalities of the Foxy Republican Chaos last night, the reemergence of climate change falsehoods has to be fact checked … Continue reading

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Northeast and NY City Air Pollution from Canadian Wildfires

The tragedy of Canadian wildfires due to an early summer heat wave, and Southward air currents, has brought dangerously high particulate air pollution to the Northeast US.  The acreage of Canadian wildfires is now 15 times greater than the past … Continue reading

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The Inflation Reduction Act Plan for Lowering US Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Another Science Magazine Breakthrough was the US passage of the Inflation Reduction act, which contains $369 billion over ten years for lowering US greenhouse gases.  One goal of the IRA is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions 40% from 2005 … Continue reading

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The Environmental Movement is Strong Even Without the EPA Climate Regulations

The Environmental Movement is Strong Even Without the EPA Climate Regulations First of all, the Obama Clean Power Plan program was already blocked by the courts, and President Biden had not yet proposed his regulations to get around this.  Meanwhile, … Continue reading

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Stop the Steals Initiated by Donald Trump

Stop the Steals Initiated by Donald Trump. How Do They Grift Us, Let Us Count the Ways. Oddly, Trump has as usual reflexively adopted a banner which point to the Thefts that he has perpetrated upon us. Let’s backtrack in … Continue reading

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Nose-witness Account of October 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill

Nose-witness Account of October 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill I have to report that I was a nose-witness to what I believe was the Friday night start of the Huntington Beach Oil Spill.  The spilled oil from an offshore oil … Continue reading

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Summary of the Dixie, Monument and Caldor California Fires and Air Pollution

Update, August 30. California’s three largest fires are currently the Dixie, Monument, and Caldor fires in Northern California.  The data is from CalFire at fire.ca.gov. The Dixie fire is 771,000 acres, or 1,200 square miles, and is 48% contained. The … Continue reading

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Tracking the Dixie Fire, the Largest in California

The Dixie Fire, Northwest of Lake Tahoe and of the Beckwourth Fire, is now the largest in California at (update August 10) 488,000 acres, or 763 square miles, larger than Los Angeles at 503 square miles.  It is now the … Continue reading

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