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Potential regional air quality impacts of cannabis cultivation facilities in Denver, Colorado
Chi-Tsan Wang
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Christine Wiedinmyer
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Kirsti Ashworth
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Peter C. Harley
Denver, Colorado, USA
retired
John Ortega
University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Quazi Z. Rasool
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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The legal commercialization of cannabis has created a new and almost unregulated industry. Here we present the first inventory of volatile organic compound emissions from cannabis cultivation facilities (CCFs) for Colorado. When applied within a regulatory air quality model to predict regional ozone impacts, our inventory results in net ozone formation near CCFs with the largest increases in Denver County. However, our inventory is highly uncertain and we identify future critical data needs.
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