PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced the final Good Neighbor Plan , a rule that will significantly cut smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

“The Shapiro Administration is committed to supporting municipalities, school districts, and businesses that want to make zero- or low-emission transportation part of their operations,” said DEP Secretary Rich Negrin. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

With Driving PA Forward Truck and Bus Fleet Grants, DEP is helping school districts, municipalities, and businesses switch to cleaner transportation, so that Pennsylvania’s kids, employees, and communities can breathe healthier air as they go about their day-to-day lives,” said DEP Acting Secretary Ramez Ziadeh.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045. Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in California. Those policy options, when combined, could lead to a zero-carbon transportation system by 2045, while also improving equity, health and the economy. featured image by Getty.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Previous Announcement This initiative was originally announced in February by DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell who said, “ Our transportation decisions affect Pennsylvania today and tomorrow. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide and 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Mile for mile, a typical drayage truck operating out of the Port of LA emits around 70 percent more ozone-forming nitrogen oxides and over 20 percent more lung-damaging fine particulate matter compared to the typical tractor truck in the rest of California, according to CARB.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen can be used for medium-to-long-term energy storage, heat and power generation, and transportation. It is also a precursor to other pollutants, including ozone (a key component of smog). In the next installment: A continued dive into hydrogen’s various use as a transportation fuel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. and 33 percent of NOx emissions from all on-road transportation in the state. However, this relatively small group of large vehicles on our roads is responsible for a disparate 13 percent of GHGs, 25 percent of PM2.5,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. micrometers or less.

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Breezometer

MARCH 23, 2022

Unlike some of the other major air pollutants that affect our health, such as ground-level ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter is the only example that isn’t a gas. comes from fuel burning, smoke, industrial processes, transportation, and indoor heating.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Transportation generates 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

trillion moved throughout Southern California using various modes of transportation, with a daily average of 1.6 The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. billion in 2015. [4].

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

But for all other greenhouse gases (which include methane, nitrogen oxides and f-gases) it gave a surprising range, saying that if efforts accelerate rapidly in the next few years, they could continue to be emitted at low and decreasing levels until 2100, long after previous estimates. The IPCC said 1.5

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, recent attention has focused on tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone smog, which is formed by atmospheric reactions on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

The House Transportation and Infrastructure approved the Promoting United Government Efforts to Save Our Sound (PUGET SOS) Act ( R. This program provided competitive grants for amphibian conservation to wildlife management authorities in forging countries. The grant program ended in 2016 due to a lack of funding. 1144 ) from by Rep.

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