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Endangerment Finding

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194

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Best Practices for Chemical Businesses

Great Lakes Regional Meeting 2025 American Chemical Society

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Methane: Policy for a greenhouse gas

American Chemical Society August 17-21, 2025 Washington, DC

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Trusted Information for Public Policy

American Chemical Society San Diego and virtual March 23 & 24, 2025

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ACS Fall 2024

Elevating the Discussion around Scientific Information & Elevating the Discussion around Methane ACS Fall 2024 Denver, August 18-22

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scenarios

scenarios

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Elevating the Discussion Around Scientific Information

American Chemical Society Denver, Colorado August 18-22, 2024

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This Month in Physics History August 1856

Eunice Foote Concludes That Carbon Dioxide Could Warm the Atmosphere, Three Years Before John Tyndall Did

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Methane: Useful fuel and feedstock, but potent greenhouse gas

American Chemical Society Spring 2024, New Orleans

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Coping with Misleading Information

American Chemical Society Spring 2024

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Combating Science Mis- and Dis-Information

American Chemical Society National Meeting San Francisco August 13-17, 2023 Division of Chemical Information CINF

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Understanding and Reducing Anthropogenic Emissions of Methane

American Chemical Society National Meeting San Francisco August 13-17, 2023 Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry I&EC

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Symposium sur la qualité de l’air intérieur

Pittcon 20 mars 2023 Philadelphie États-Unis

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Indoor Air Quality

Pittcon 2023

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Viability of pathogens as a function of relative humidity

Viability of pathogens as a function of relative humidity

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A blueprint for social media manipulation

A blueprint for social media manipulation

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Chemical Business: Resources & Best Practices at RMRM 2021

American Chemical Society Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 20-24 October 2021

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Sustainable Systems for Industrial Chemicals and Materials

26th Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (GC&E) 6-8 June 2022, Reston, Virginia USA

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System Design for Electrosynthesis of Renewable Fuels

26th Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (GC&E) 6-8 June 2022, Reston, Virginia USA

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Pacifichem 2021 virtual confernce

Chemical Business Best Practices for Global Challenges

Two good reads on climate disruption:

1) Computer-assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change
Coan, T.G., Boussalis, C., Cook, J. et al. Sci Rep 11, 22320 (2021).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01714-4

2) Climate déjà vu
Science, Vol 387, Issue 6733, p. 455 (21 Jan 2025)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw1532

Good Indoor Air Quality requires adequate fresh air exchange. Avoid poorly ventilated indoor areas. Prudent monitoring includes temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide CO, carbon dioxide CO2, volatile organic compounds VOCs, formaldehyde H2CO, and particulates PM2.5. If you do not have a personal monitor, request one from the library of things at your local library.

MERV 13 filters and KN95 masks can slow spreading of aerosols. Observe public health regulations. Prudent practice, including vaccines to provide defense mechanisms.

Michigan Air Quality Dashboard
https://air-egle.hub.arcgis.com/

Wisconsin Air Quality Monitor
https://airquality.wi.gov/home/map

Purple Air
https://www2.purpleair.com/

Local wastewater monitoring is useful in the detection of viruses and other substances of concern in public health. Wisconsin Wastewater Monitoring Program
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/wastewater.htm

Conference Organization

ACS Fall 2026, Chicago, August 23-27
JOINT ENFL & GEOC
Atmospheric Methane: Sources, Sinks, and Solutions
https://callforabstracts.acs.org/acsfall2026

ACS Spring 2026, Atlanta, March 22-26
JOINT ENFL, ENVR, GEOC, I&EC
Methane: Chemistry of a Greenhouse Gas

Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry
ABCChem December 2026
Chemical engineering process technology research for global sustainability
https://abcchem.org/

Pacifichem 2025
Honolulu, December 15-20
Approaching Steady-State Atmospheric Methane in the Anthropocene
https://pacifichem.org