Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 26, 2022
California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. As you said, there’s a legacy of racism when it comes to siting polluting infrastructure. First, there’s air pollution.
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Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 19, 2023
In response, Potter Township passed a resolution in 2017 requiring Shell to perform an exterior lighting study. Photos: Top- What Shell said the lighting would look like in 2017; Light scattering today at the Shell plan; Bottom: Orange glow from emergency flaring and close up of flaring glow.)
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. Wildfire smoke containing a variety of air pollutants and particulate matter, especially in the West, has increased the chances that farmworkers will experience adverse health hazards such as asthma and respiratory disease.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 6, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 16, 2023
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