PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 Environmental Protection Agency methodologies to assign a dollar value to each ton of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide reduced.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of this air pollution comes from diesel trucks rumbling along the state’s many highway corridors, in particular I-95 which connects many major cities along the East Coast. This all makes Maryland one of the deadliest states for diesel particulate pollution. A @LightningeMtrs transit cargo van (electrified Ford transit van).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The federal Clean Air Act and US Environmental Protection Agency regulations require that a facility submit a Title V Operating Permit application within 12 months of commencing operation. The Shell Plant began operations in November 2022 and has been operating under a construction permit DEP keeps renewing. 12,671,044.75

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances. Following the COA, Shell plans to restart operations at the facility on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. On March 25, 2023 Shell suspended ethylene and polyethylene production to make repairs and perform maintenance.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide 2023 94

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The current draft of the ACF rule was released in late March and made several changes to the version that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) heard back in October 2022. pollution from vehicles. pollution from vehicles. An electric commercial fleet vehicle spotted in San Francisco, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

cranks its air conditioners to get through historic high temperatures , the need for energy that slows, not hastens, climate change is more apparent than ever. Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. And now, as the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared in the Beaver County Times on March 19, 2023 -- If the first three months of operations at Shell’s petrochemical plant are any indication, the next 30 years are going to be stressful and hazardous for nearby Beaver Country residents.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

Frontiers Planet Prize: meet the International Champions Launched in 2022 by the Frontiers Research Foundation, the Frontiers Planet Prize aims to promote and recognize the scientists who will help Earth remain within the nine planetary boundaries described by Prof Johan Rockström in his keynote talk.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. Second, in the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act ,Congress made massive investments to encourage diffusion of zero-emitting vehicles and expand EV infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

In fact, the Marcellus Shale Coalition was only one of two groups to comment on the draft GP-1 general permit when DEP put it out for public review in January of 2022. Posted: January 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest As a general rule (Section A.9) As a general rule (Section A.9) 1 Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.

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