[HTML][HTML] The role of natural gas and its infrastructure in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, improving regional air quality, and renewable resource integration

MA Mac Kinnon, J Brouwer, S Samuelsen - Progress in Energy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The pursuit of future energy systems that can meet electricity demands while supporting the
attainment of societal environment goals, including mitigating climate change and reducing …

New look at BTEX: are ambient levels a problem?

AL Bolden, CF Kwiatkowski… - Environmental science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) are retrieved during fossil fuel
extraction and used as solvents in consumer and industrial products, as gasoline additives …

Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer

PS Monks, AT Archibald, A Colette… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere,
central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as …

Methane leaks from North American natural gas systems

AR Brandt, GA Heath, EA Kort, F O'Sullivan, G Pétron… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Natural gas (NG) is a potential “bridge fuel” during transition to a decarbonized energy
system: It emits less carbon dioxide during combustion than other fossil fuels and can be …

Potential public health hazards, exposures and health effects from unconventional natural gas development

JL Adgate, BD Goldstein… - Environmental science & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The rapid increase in unconventional natural gas (UNG) development in the United States
during the past decade has brought wells and related infrastructure closer to population …

Observations confirm that volatile chemical products are a major source of petrochemical emissions in US cities

GI Gkatzelis, MM Coggon, BC McDonald… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite decades of declining air pollution, urban US areas are still affected by summertime
ozone and wintertime particulate matter exceedance events. Volatile organic compounds …

The environmental costs and benefits of fracking

RB Jackson, A Vengosh, JW Carey… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Unconventional oil and natural gas extraction enabled by horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) is driving an economic boom, with consequences described from …

Identifying volatile chemical product tracer compounds in US cities

GI Gkatzelis, MM Coggon, BC McDonald… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
With traffic emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) decreasing rapidly over the last
decades, the contributions of the emissions from other source categories, such as volatile …

[HTML][HTML] Emissions of volatile organic compounds from crude oil processing–Global emission inventory and environmental release

H Rajabi, MH Mosleh, P Mandal, A Lea-Langton… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Airborne Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are known to have strong and
adverse impacts on human health and the environment by contributing to the formation of …

US surface ozone trends and extremes from 1980 to 2014: quantifying the roles of rising Asian emissions, domestic controls, wildfires, and climate

M Lin, LW Horowitz, R Payton, AM Fiore… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
US surface O 3 responds to varying global-to-regional precursor emissions, climate, and
extreme weather, with implications for designing effective air quality control policies. We …