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  • Thumbnail for International Pollutants Elimination Network
    The International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) (formerly International POPs Elimination Network) is a global network of NGOs dedicated to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Persistent organic pollutant
    intention to eliminate or severely restrict their production, by the international community at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001...
    39 KB (5,170 words) - 22:16, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm and effective from 17 May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict...
    33 KB (2,128 words) - 02:20, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air pollution
    Air pollution (redirect from Air pollutant)
    is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living...
    229 KB (23,275 words) - 18:19, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water pollution
    Impact Development and Other Green Design Strategies". National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. EPA. 2014. Archived from the original on February 19...
    57 KB (8,344 words) - 10:43, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutant
    The term environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants (EPPP) was first suggested in the nomination in 2010 of pharmaceuticals and environment as...
    37 KB (4,191 words) - 16:11, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    Protocol seeks "to control, reduce or eliminate discharge, emissions and losses of persistent organic pollutants" in Europe, some former Soviet Union countries...
    7 KB (424 words) - 15:49, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legacy pollution
    Legacy pollution or legacy pollutants are persistent materials in the environment that were created through a polluting industry or process that have polluting...
    38 KB (5,154 words) - 15:02, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clean Water Act
    established the current definition. The CWA introduced the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), a permit system for regulating point sources...
    89 KB (10,770 words) - 14:38, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pollution
    liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies...
    73 KB (8,589 words) - 15:58, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arnika (NGO)
    networks, Arnika collaborated with entities like the International Pollutants Elimination Network, International Rivers, European Rivers Network, European...
    22 KB (1,824 words) - 02:36, 4 March 2024
  • Measures of pollutant concentration are used to determine risk assessment in public health. Industry is continually synthesizing new chemicals, the regulation...
    8 KB (1,191 words) - 01:57, 2 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Indoor air quality
    impaired learning in schools. Common pollutants of indoor air include: secondhand tobacco smoke, air pollutants from indoor combustion, radon, molds and...
    97 KB (10,251 words) - 11:05, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Endocrine disruptor
    recent scientific advances have been made to increase the rate of elimination of pollutants from the human body. For example, BPA removal techniques have...
    146 KB (16,616 words) - 19:41, 27 April 2024
  • consultant on the Global Lead Paint Elimination Campaign at the International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Network. "Announcing the 2018 Goldman...
    5 KB (372 words) - 12:04, 27 September 2023
  • pollutant uptake by the respiratory system can determine how the resulting exposure contributes to the dose. In this way, the mechanism of pollutant uptake...
    26 KB (3,250 words) - 02:13, 13 May 2024
  • xenobiotic metabolism to degrade, transform or accumulate environmental pollutants, including hydrocarbons (e.g. oil), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),...
    21 KB (2,437 words) - 01:02, 25 December 2022
  • The term wet scrubber describes a variety of devices that remove pollutants from a furnace flue gas or from other gas streams. In a wet scrubber, the polluted...
    22 KB (2,799 words) - 22:27, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Effluent
    surface waters to be regulated with permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Indirect dischargers–facilities which send...
    10 KB (1,090 words) - 14:05, 6 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Water quality law
    EPA-833-K-10-001. "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System." CWA sec. 402, 33 U.S.C. § 1342. "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)". EPA...
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