Community advocates call on cities and state to protect
climate, health and jobs from fast-approaching oil crisis
California communities and workers face an escalating climate jobs crisis that we can forestall
by scaling down oil refining for export over the next few years
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• California refineries import crude to export fuels; from 2013–2017 they imported 66% of
the oil they refined and exported 20–33% of the refined fuels they produced.
XRF is an acronym for x-ray fluorescence, a process whereby electrons are displaced from their atomic orbital positions, releasing a burst of energy that is characteristic of a specific element. This release of energy is then registered by the detector in then XRF instrument, which in turn categorizes the energies by element. https://www.bruker.com/products/x-ray-diffraction-and-elemental-analysis/handheld-xrf/how-xrf-works.html
The relatively poor air quality over the past week or two is mostly due to recent meteorology conditions. The persistent high pressure over California right now leads to cooler temperatures, a low inversion layer, light winds (no storms), and poor vertical mixing. This meteorology pattern traps our area’s emissions within the area and closer to […]
A new global alliance promoting the voluntary adoption of an independent on-road vehicle emissions test and rating system. http://www.allowair.org/
Urban particulate air pollution is a serious health issue. Trees within cities can remove fine particles from the atmosphere and consequently improve air quality and human health. Tree effects on PM2.5 concentrations and human health are modeled for 10 U.S. cities. The total amount of PM2.5 removed annually by trees varied from 4.7 tonnes in […]
see this link: https://cchealth.org/hazmat/accident-history.php
Details in http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Planning%20and%20Research/CARE%20Program/Documents/ImpactCommunities_2_Methodology.ashx?la=en
