VOC Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Los Angeles Pollution Levels Dropped 98% Since 1960s https://www.greenoptimistic.com/los-angeles-pollution-levels-dropped-98-since-1960s-20120814/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/los-angeles-pollution-levels-dropped-98-since-1960s-20120814/#respond Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:14:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25806 A study funded by the NOAA has recently claimed that the volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the Los Angeles Basin have dropped immensely over the past 50 years, despite the fact that the fossil fuel usage now is three times the one in the 60s. The reason, as NOAA’s Carsten Warneke says is that “cars […]

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