Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, they determined that six so-called “ criteria air pollutants ”—particulate matter, ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide, lead, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide—were so dangerous they required a rigorous and regularly updated process of assessment and policymaking.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone. The Rule and Other Potential Developments By adopting this rule, BAAQMD is exercising its legal authority under both federal and state law to regulate nitrogen oxides.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

The federal government,” West Virginia Sen. Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide. Only Washington has enacted a similar law and New York Gov. in just one day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 Some novel approaches for all of federal government come from intense consultation with communities.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

SCAQMD will issue solicitations for projects to be funded by the WAIRE Mitigation Program, and awards of funds must be presented to the SCAQMD Governing Board for approval at least annually. These state and federal standards require areas to reach certain ambient concentrations of ozone to be considered in “attainment.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Luminaries In Firefly World [PaEN] -- Penn State: New Updates Come To 'Beescape,' An Online Tool For Supporting Pollinators -- KDKA: Smashing Spotted Lanternfly Myths: Study Finds They May Not Be As Harmful To Vegetation As Once Thought -- TribLive Editorial: Do We Need More Gator Laws?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

government employees’ ‘with advancing environmental racism.’ It failed to explain just why its conclusion differed from the environmental assessment performed under California law, which did find significant environmental impacts. Judge Rawlinson took strong exception to the response of her fellow judges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

You can compare this to ozone which has a half-life on the order of minutes, and some PFAS chemicals that have a half-life in air on the order of several years. There are two ways that government agencies can work to reduce toxic air emissions, through regulations or through voluntary pollution reduction measures. What can be done?

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Environment, Law, and History

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Clean Air Act programs have lowered levels of six common pollutants — particles, ozone, lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide — as well as numerous toxic pollutants. This progress reflects efforts by state, local and tribal governments; EPA; private sector companies; environmental groups and others.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As the law takes effect this winter, we all — including you! — A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates. What are overburdened communities?

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2022

Million To Help Cover Home Energy Costs -- WHYY: Philly Area Finally Off The ‘Worst 25’ List For Ozone Pollution, But Still Gets Failing Grade -- DCED Announces Grant To Fund Industrial Site Reuse Environmental Assessment In Clarion County -- MCall: Emmaus Sues Makers Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Over Groundwater Contamination -- Insurance Dept.

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Circle of Blue

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. It was our way of confronting those laws and those systems. The effects of toxic blooms don’t stop at water treatment plants.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But they also could plausibly be adopted within a few years if governments are serious about ramping up their ambition, so do not necessarily meet the aim of proposing something radical enough to move the debate. They also call for cutting short-lived climate forcers even faster than now being pursued. So, where’s the radicalism?

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

Robinson’s Boat Registration Bill Becomes Law -- TribLive - Mary Ann Thomas: Game Warden, U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

This Area Offers An Example -- How Penn State Extension Launched One Of The Most Successful Volunteer Training Programs In The US To Help Revive Struggling Local Watershed Groups - By Diane Huskinson, Stroud Water Resource Center [PaEN] -- Altoona Mirror: Western PA Conservancy Working On Juniata River Watershed Plan -- WeConservePA: In Their Own Words, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law -- Appalachian Voices: Bipartisan STREAM Act Passes U.S. PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With Waters Rising, Baltimore Eyes $138 Million Plan To Limit Coastal Flood Damage -- Reuters: EPA To Use Limits On Ozone, Coal Ash To Encourage Retirement Of Remaining Coal-Fired Power Plants After U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In an era when charges of greenwashing and green hushing are proliferating across social media while at the same time governments are mandating ESG including environmental disclosures by businesses, an update to the Green Guides is a welcome effort toward providing safety bumpers for companies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Read more here ] “Every day, Pennsylvania residents’ health and safety are at unnecessary risk due to outdated laws.” “To If you do, then do the right thing and pass HB 170 into law. The report pointed to weakness is multiple state laws that failed to protect the public and the environment from negative impacts of the industry.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Methane also contributes to the formation of ground-level ozone which is itself a heat-trapping greenhouse gas and, when inhaled by humans, can trigger a variety of health problems from throat irritation and coughing to bronchitis, asthma, and reduced lung function. EPA has offered no explanation for its sudden change in approach.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

government doing to make sure this harm would be minimal? A potential 20 to 50 percent ozone loss over populated areas, and decrease in global precipitation, would cause a nuclear famine. government so far failed to perform the required analysis for its nuclear arsenal? Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. In 1976, in.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Here are 110 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

But there has been “no sign” that China’s government intends to shift the country’s policy, said Byford Tsang, a senior policy adviser with the E3G think tank. Governments need to help people cut consumption. Yet they may face barriers to act, which can be removed by actions, for example, by industry, businesses and governments.”.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

The constitutional right to a clean environment is guaranteed to all, not only to those with the funding to lobby government officials. Environmental law has traditionally been written to a standard that's based on cost and profitability. This legislation would be another step towards upholding that right,” said Rep.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. An ongoing Supreme Court case (Sackett vs. EPA) has the potential to shape the scope of this law. Gardner, JD – Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, Stetson University College of Law.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

Summary: Green-roof zoning laws may provide a solution to the Urban Heat Island Effect, which contributes to anthropogenic climate change through heat pollution originating from large cities. US legislators may follow the lead of Stuttgart, Germany, where exemplary city-greening zoning laws have greatly reduced urban pollution.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Congress passes a deal to keep the government funded through Dec. Lawyers for the government shared the Biden administration expects to issue a new Clean Water Act proposed rule by the end of the year. How Government Ends – Boston Review. The bill largely keeps government programs funded at their fiscal year 2022 levels.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

These announcements are the start of a renewed commitment to and increased ambition on nature and people across the federal government. 4083 ) to overhaul the country’s hardrock mining law. A new report details how the federal government uses of prize competitions and challenges and crowdsourcing and citizen science.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. including urban photochemical smog, acid rain and increased tropospheric ozone, and climate change at the local, regional, and global level respectively. federal government. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. jointly committed.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. In an unpublished judgment, the court rejected the petitioners’ other NEPA arguments regarding project design and capacity and cumulative ozone impacts. and non-U.S.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

3531 ) that requires the federal government to develop a National Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy and authorizes a chief resilience officer position in the White House. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. Legislative updates: Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Rep. 6461 & S.

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