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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.

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Do We Dare Continue to Flare?

Vermont Law

8) Conversely, under President Biden, the EPA has advanced the new Clean Air Act rule to significantly and environmentally reduce methane emissions and other health-harming air pollutants that put nearby communities at risk. (9) 7) However, under the Trump administration’s Methane Gas Rule, the EPA rescinded the NSPS. (8)