How can businesses help?
- These businesses can help manage their emissions on green house gasses and set goals for the future to limit their use of greenhouse gasses.
- Businesses can improve on increasing energy efficiency by setting management programs that help manage the energy they use.
- They can use renewable energy which can reduce their carbon footprint and better the environment and air quality tremendously.
How can you as an individual help?
- You can conserve energy by using less light, buying equipment that uses less energy, limit the use of air condoning, and installing a programmable thermostat.
- To minimize air pollution from the fossil fuels emitted by you car, you should minimize the miles you drive on your car or truck. Safer alternatives are riding a bicycle, taking the bus, or a train.
Citation
“The Sources and Solutions: Fossil Fuels.” EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, 4 Feb. 2019, www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-fossil-fuels.