PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In September 2023, environmental groups submitted a petition to EPA requesting it object to the Title V air quality permit issued to U.S. In October, EPA issued a similar order granting the majority of petitioners’ claims relating to insufficient monitoring and testing requirements and objecting to the U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson by ACHD.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Children in communities of color and low-income communities were more highly exposed to air pollution. Interactions: Babies living in economically disinvested neighborhoods in their first year of life and exposed to air pollution were more likely to be diagnosed with autism.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The goal of the Clean Air Act is to achieve national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), with the primary requirement being protection of public health. As our understanding of the health effects of air pollution has improved, there has been a general trend toward tightening the standards.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the renewal of the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Stronghold Digital Mining Panther Creek coal waste-fired power plant in Nesquehoning Borough, Carbon County. ( Public comments are due May 27 (30 days after notice).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Washington’s adoption of these stricter standards comes on the heels of the termination of its emission testing program in 2020 due to the state’s significant improvement in air quality and almost statewide NAAQS attainment. Thus, the CAA sets a floor for regulation of air pollution, not a ceiling.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2022

Birds were dying from DDT poisoning, and countries were contending with oil spills, contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the environmental harm of the Vietnam War. Air pollution was crossing borders and harming neighboring countries. by Mihaela Papa, Tufts University In 1972, acid rain was destroying trees.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 1861 ) Air Quality Permits -- Montour LLC - Montour Power Plant: DEP invites comments on a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the coal/gas-fired power plant located in Derry Twp., Beaver County. ( Washington County. ( Montour County. ( Fayette County. ( Dobrosielski, S.

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Breezometer

APRIL 4, 2022

Exposure to air pollution during our regular, daily commutes is a major health risk. The Problem With Air Pollution On The Road. The average driver in some countries can spend as much as 4 years on the road throughout their lifetime, regularly exposing them to harmful levels of air pollution.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 5, 2024

The report is based on findings from two national message tests, a state-specific online survey, a national digital ad test, and six national focus groups. Programs that “increase access and affordability of EVs for all” generate 51% support, with a 2:1 support-to-opposition ratio.”’

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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) These trucks regularly operate along industrial corridors – areas that often flank communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Chambersburg Energy LLC - Gas-Fired Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality permit for the facility located in Guilford Twp., Franklin County. ( Lancaster County. ( Berks County. ( Tioga County. ( Tioga County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Fayette County. (

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With inadequate measures to curb on-road emissions compared to lab tests, EPA shifted the burden from manufacturers to the communities where those “flexibilities” in the regulation played out in the form of increased asthma, premature death , etc. Test cycles in the real world. g NO X /bhp-hr). g NO X /bhp-hr). Boriboomsomsin et al. ).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If, by contrast, a state measure is neutral on its face, federal courts apply an even-handed “balancing test,” in which they inquire whether the national interests involved clearly outweigh the state or local interests that prompted enactment of the challenged legislation. beyond their political borders.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Shale gas development requires multiple facilities and infrastructure of varying size in order to access, transport, refine, separate, and convert the shale gas products—all of which emit air pollutants. Emissions are released into the ambient air and invisible to the naked eye. According the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Many factors could explain these outcomes: changing weather and temperature patterns, aging infrastructure and populations, more attentive testing, and water and energy conservation. Other studies have shown that Black Americans are more likely to have worse drinking water quality and higher exposure to air pollutants.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

EPA’s efforts to regulate vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act also went on for more than a decade and was ultimately a big part of the reason why Congress overhauled that section of the statute in the 1990 amendments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

In Invisible Women , Caroline Criado Perez outlines how cars are designed for the “average male” using crash test dummies that are significantly taller and heavier than an average woman. According to 2022 registration data, women account for just 28% of new EV registrations , compared to 41% of new registrations of all personal vehicles.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2023

EPA has been able to quantify a lot of the impacts of the most common air pollutants. We know much less about water pollutants and their health and ecological effects. This is another indication of how little weight science and law carried in the Trump Administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

What I didn’t know is that my health was still at risk—from indoor pollution. Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. So when I found a place to live just a few blocks away on a street without buses, it was a relief.

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Breezometer

JANUARY 3, 2022

Our air quality live map and mobile app already provides real-time information for one location at a time, but understanding longer-term pollution exposure impact is also important. We know many of our users also want to understand the impact of air pollution on their health over long periods of time.

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Breezometer

MAY 5, 2021

For World Asthma Day on the 5th May, we decided to test the public's knowledge about the environmental connection to asthma. Here we reveal the answers if you haven't taken the test yet - why not take the quiz here first! Air Pollution Exposure Contributes to Asthma Development - True or False? Correct Answer: True.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

On October 6, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a decision saying it will hear key arguments on whether DEP should have considered soil contamination and air pollution resulting from drilling and operation of a shale gas well pad 500 feet away from a Washington County family's home that played a role in contaminating their water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

. -- TribLive: Plans For New Westmoreland Power Line Spark Property Owner Concerns Over Potential Impacts -- PA Business Report: Duquesne Light Names Winner Of Underground Electrical Network Innovation Challenge -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: US Steel Appeals $2.2

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 25, the Eyes On Shell citizens initiative reported fenceline air pollution monitoring data at Shell's Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County reported benzene levels of over 185 µg/m3 and 89 µg/m3 they said was above the 29 µg/m3 minimum risk level established by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the Environmental Mitigation Community Fund steering committee has finalized the protocol to allocate $5 million in penalty funding for community projects in Beaver County as a result of Shell Petrochemical Plant air pollution violations. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The sweeping order includes plans to create guidance to label and watermark AI-generated content, and to enforce safety testing of new AI technologies under the Defense Production Act. What about AI-generated data that informs a critical decision about air pollution?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The new rule will require a 35 mg NO X /bhp-hr emissions on the current test procedure, compared to 200 mg NO X /bhp-hr for today’s new trucks, a reduction on paper of 82.5 Thankfully, they’ve reduced the maximum allowable limit to 65 mg NO X /bhp-hr, just less than double the average requirement, at least on the lab tests.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

I don't think that's something that the public is necessarily aware of, particularly with respect to the limited set of data, limited testing, that the Department has done. Docket #2023043 ] PFAS Contamination “I'm not aware of any requirement that [oil and gas well] operators have to test their freshwater sources before use,” said Johnson.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

The evaluation can result in a regulatory ban, approval, requirement for more testing, or restriction. The authors used the air pollutant formaldehyde as an example and pulled in other pollutants associated with the same health effect (respiratory cancer) into the analysis.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA and California responded that the statutory test is (and for decades has been) whether California “needs” its whole program (including standards for smog-forming pollutants), which it undisputedly does, and that, in any event, California faces such serious climate hazards that even petitioners’ narrower test is satisfied.

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Breezometer

MARCH 7, 2022

Given this desire and my aims to improve awareness of air pollution, I came to join the ranks of BreezoMeter’s team of environmental superheroes as their Chief Scientist! We use data management and machine learning tools which enable us to inspect large datasets and test various new and existing air quality models.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. And I'm going to quote now from that study.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Billion Tax Break -- Public Source: When An Air Inversion Rolls In, Do Efforts To Curb Industrial Pollution Work In Allegheny County? Senate returns to voting session Feb. 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 8 -- Committee Schedule -- March 7-- Governor’s Budget Address House returns to voting session Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2023

Potter County -- MethaneSAT-EDF Successfully Test Methane Detection Technology To Be Used To Document Methane Emissions From Onshore Natural Gas Production In North America [PaEN] [Posted: July 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

. -- Incomplete Application For CNX Midstream Slickville Fracking Wastewater, Natural Gas Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County Withdrawn By DEP [PaEN] -- TribLive: Murrysville Officials OK Olympus Energy Project For 2 Fracking Water Pipelines, 2 Natural Gas Pipelines In Westmoreland -- The Allegheny Front: Ohio Commission Approves Bids To Frack (..)

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For decades, Mary has been one of the country’s leading contributors to local, state, and federal action on air pollution, first as an attorney for the Center of Law in the Public Interest, where she was one of the first advocates to file a suit under the Clean Air Act. The Mary D.

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