Real Climate

MAY 21, 2023

The dominant factors are changes in CO2 (a cooling), ozone depletion (a cooling), warming from big volcanoes, and oscillations related to the solar cycle. That means the greenhouse substances are basically just CO2 and ozone, and they absorb in quite different parts of the spectrum. But why is the stratosphere increasingly chill?

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Real Climate

JANUARY 28, 2024

2022 – is also clear (the difference between the pink and grey bands). Why is this only showing summer data, for 12 US states (I think Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin) and for the odd time period of 1973-2022? 26-29, 2022. Casas, G.A.

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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

2022) courtesy of Ben Santer. As with the earlier CMIP6 comparisons, I’ll plot the observational time series against both the full ensemble and the ensemble screened by the transient climate response (TCR) as we recommended in Hausfather et al (2022) , and plot the time series and trend histogram. 26-29, 2022. are matched.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. What’s in the bill? But this bill is a big step forward.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 12, 2022

Among other things, it demonstrates that environmental regulation is often driven politically by pressure from businesses that stand to profit from the regulation, a phenomenon we have also seen, for instance, in the history of the Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

A policy brief published by the Emmett Institute in March 2022 outlines California air districts’ legal authority to adopt these kinds of regulations and suggests policy mechanisms to help ensure the transition to electric appliances is equitable and affordable. It should thus be replicated throughout the state and nation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. The well was brought under control on November 19, and a cement plug was installed on November 20, 2022. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Of State Election Results Website -- DEP Invites Comments On Draft 2024 Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment Report -- DEP 2024 Water Quality Report Shows 28,820 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (34%) - An Increase From 27,886 In 2022 [PaEN-10.24.23] -- Center For American Progress: LNG Natural Gas Exports Raise Natural Gas Prices (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Over the past 15 years, Partners have avoided emissions of over 500 metric tons of ozone-depleting substances and roughly 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Posted: September 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest This is roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from consuming over 11 billion gallons of gasoline.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 14 PA Bulletin inviting comments on nitrogen oxide emission reduction measures from municipal waste combustors proposed by the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission. Posted: May 13, 2022] PA Environment Digest Public comments are due May 29.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PA Bulletin - November 12, 2022 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 41 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the November 12 PA Bulletin - pages 7002 to 7043.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 4, 2023

Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Additionally, the rule phases out the sale of fossil-fueled trucks in 2036.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Photo credit: Beijing 2022. This is replacing the traditional hydrofluorocarbons which have been found to damage the ozone layer. Total greenhouse gas emissions could reach 1.028 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent throughout the preparation and post-Beijing Games in 2016-2022, and about a third less than the 1.6

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Brag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On December 20, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requested public comment on its Guides for the Use of Environmental Claims (Green Guides). FTC states in its December 14, 2022, news release that it seeks to update the Green Guides “based on increasing consumer interest in buying environmentally friendly products.”

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Brag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

FTC states in its December 14, 2022, news release that it seeks to update the Green Guides “based on increasing consumer interest in buying environmentally friendly products.” More information and an insightful commentary are available in our December 16, 2022, memorandum.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the February 25 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On November 7, 2022, Shell reported emissions data showing that for the 12-month period ending in September 2022, the total VOC emissions reached 521.6 tons and for the 12-month period ending in October 2022, VOC emissions reached 662.9 See below. ]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

. -- Air pollutant reductions and human-health improvements – the DEP Electric Vehicle Roadmap indicates that a number of Pennsylvania counties consistently exceed EPA human-health standards for ozone and fine-particulate matter. P-2022-3030743. Click Here for a copy of the petition. Public comments are due to the PUC by April 11.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Air Pollution - Under a high greenhouse gas scenario, premature mortality attributed to climate change in 2030 could reach 3,340 for ozone-related deaths and 55,600 for PM 2.5. January 25, 2022. Forbes magazine recently covered the numerous ways climate change will impact business operations in 2022 and onward.

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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. Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone.

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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. An electric commercial fleet vehicle spotted in San Francisco, 2022. What’s in the proposal?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These pollutants contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, which EPA has shown has negative health impacts, including asthma attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Zero- and low-emission vehicles also lower carbon dioxide emissions, helping to lessen climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less.

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Acoel

JUNE 21, 2022

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Heidi B. These indexes take various environmental factors (ex: ozone, PM, Superfund, etc.) Goldstein) Friedman. and combine them with demographic data to summarize how those indicators impact a particular location.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Breezometer

JUNE 12, 2022

Clean Air Day 2022: What’s the Big Deal? Pregnant Woman Nearly 13% More Likely to Have a Miscarriage Due to PM & Ozone Pollution. This year's event, set to take place on June 16th, will mark five years of the Clean Air Day campaign. More info here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

DEP hopes to get the proposed regulation to the Environmental Quality Board for action during the first quarter of 2022. There is no ban on traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. Click Here for a copy of DEP’s presentation. Click Here a copy of draft regulation changes.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

This work has resulted in lower proposed emissions limits and decreased chances of ground level ozone pollution that can harm people’s health. Read more here. ] [Posted: May 20, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act for controlling mercury, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other pollutants have contributed to the employment decline. coal mining employment had declined to a level of 43,582 jobs in 2022, with 32,090 jobs east of the Mississippi River and 11,434 jobs west of the Mississippi.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These fleets, those with more than 10 tractor trucks, are responsible for the lion’s share of emissions: about 85 percent of fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions and just under 90 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from all California tractors (see the pie charts below).

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Some of you will have heard of John Clauser because he was an awardee of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the experimental verification of quantum entanglement. Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!) John Clauser’s theory of climate explained. Schmidt, T.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. Keith Schneider.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In April 2022, the Biden administration announced the launch of the first-ever U.S. Antarctic ozone hole shrinks slightly – The Hill. CNSF – Statement on Passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Aug. CNSF – Statement on Passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Aug. National Nature Assessment. Led by the U.S.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties, or COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022, ESA seeks ecological experts to include in a media advisory highlighting our members’ expertise in climate change and biodiversity. NSF will release a report about the data in early December 2022. in 2016 to 30.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

This means that when the price of gas spikes –as it did in 2022 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inevitably will again in the future–the price of electricity for consumers also eventually spikes in response. Gas-powered plants accounted for the most power plant outages during 2022 Winter Storm Elliott, followed by coal.

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