Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Older vehicles (pre-2004) make up 19% of the state’s passenger vehicles and only 12% of miles driven, yet they emit almost 3 times as much smog-forming, nitrogen-oxide pollution as all 2004 and later vehicles combined. Provide transportation solutions that go beyond private passenger vehicles. Combining the PM 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Cleaning up heavy-duty vehicles is one of the most consequential tasks in reducing climate-warming greenhouse gases and toxic air pollution from the transportation sector. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality. These policies will complement the important provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

Unless you are a clean transportation wonk or are in a deeply sad place with your social life, you probably don’t know what the heck that alphabet soup means, so let me translate. The California legislature cannot risk losing millions of dollars in clean transportation funding. They must act to extend these fees as soon as possible.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

The Transport Decarbonisation Alliance (TDA) is a collaboration among countries, cities, regions and companies with the goal of accelerating the global transformation of the transport sector towards a net-zero emission mobility system by 2050. These zones effectively reduce pollution and improve the quality of urban life.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

Particle matter pollutants consist of extremely small solid and liquid particles in the air, originating from various sources like oil refineries and fossil fuel burning, fracking, transportation, conventional agriculture, wildfires, construction, and biomass burning (like heating with fireplaces). These particles are categorized by size.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. But in order to enforce these important rules, the state is waiting on a waiver from EPA, a waiver that the fossil fuel industry and truck manufacturers are both opposing.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality. Producing, transporting and burning gas despoil waterways, compromising wildlife ecosystems and drinking water supplies. Then there’s water contamination.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Transportation is the biggest source of global warming emissions in the state, and trucks and buses are some of the heaviest polluters. Based on my analysis of data from the International Council on Clean Transportation, the ACT and additional Low-NOx Omnibus rules would bring over $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Research shows there are enough explored or prospective reserves to electrify the global transportation sector using current technology if a high amount of battery recycling occurs. Emissions which create smog and impact human health can also be mitigated; sulfur oxides can be reduced by 89% and nitrogen oxides by 78%.

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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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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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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. Why did the state create this truck rule?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

million in 2023 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to municipalities and businesses to improve air quality in communities through cleaner fuel transportation infrastructure. DEP is committed to providing opportunities to deploy cleaner transportation alternatives which improve air quality and results in healthier communities.”

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2022

In addition to carbon dioxide, burning jet fuel produces water vapor, sulfur dioxide, soot, nitrogen oxides, and contrail clouds, all of which can affect global temperature. Read the full story at Anthropocene Magazine. Airplanes affect the climate in complex ways.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

billion per year in net societal benefits (the monetized value of climate and public health benefits resulting from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter; as well as net cost savings to light-duty vehicle owners from operating zero emission vehicles and savings to all electricity customers).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

IRA clean energy investments also will protect public health by cutting key toxic air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, by more than 50 percent by 2050, and drastically reduce fine particulate matter, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars in 2035 alone from avoided premature deaths.

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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. On March 15, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emissions from power plants in USCA states fall 88 and 77 percent respectively by 2040, compared with 27 and 18 percent under current policies and plans. Our analysis underscores the importance of cleaning the grid as we electrify the transportation and building sectors.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Despite their low numbers, these trucks are responsible for around one-third of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, a quarter of lung-damaging fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Tractor trucks make up just about 1 percent of all on-road vehicles in California.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The case was brought by CTA, an association “devoted to advancing the interests of its motor-carrier members, which include warehouse owners and operators, who provide transportation services in California.” [ii] Each proposed intervenor is discussed further below.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Methane leaks when gas is extracted, produced and transported, adding to the warming of the planet.Methane is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first 20 year period so its shorter-term climate impacts are immense. Gas plants are often the top emitters of nitrogen oxides in communities.In

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040. Under the no-new-policy scenario, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides decline only by 27 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

California is home to several of the nation’s largest ports in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego, and thanks to our insatiable demand for foreign-made goods, coupled with fossil-fueled transportation, our freight system has significant negative health consequences for people living around these shipping hubs. There are more than 1.8

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2022

By replacing old diesel-engine trucks with zero-emission electric trucks, Rail Management Services has eliminated a source of nitrogen oxide pollution in the Chambersburg area, helping residents breathe healthier air,” said DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell. A $1 million Driving PA Forward grant made the replacement project possible. “By

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The report found that these states can meet all of their electricity consumption with renewables by 2035, even with a significant increase in demand due to the electrification of transportation and heating. Such a transition would have major benefits for public health, climate, local economies and energy affordability.

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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

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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By reducing nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants from the transportation sector, we make the air quality healthier in our communities, while helping to slow down climate change and its impacts,” Ziadeh added. 202 in North Wales, Montgomery County. -- Giant Eagle, Inc.:

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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. Moreover, transporting anywhere close to that amount of green hydrogen would require even more significant––and even more expensive––investments in the distribution system. In the abstract, the use-cases for hydrogen are broad.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For 17 years, EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership has empowered businesses to move goods in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible, while protecting public health and reducing air pollution.” million tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 112,000 tons of particulate matter (PM), while saving $44.8

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Breezometer

MARCH 23, 2022

comes from fuel burning, smoke, industrial processes, transportation, and indoor heating. Secondary particles formed in the air, such as those from nitrogen oxides emitted by traffic or industrial processes, are also a part of PM 2.5 We’ll explain what each of these PM pollutants is in a moment.).

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

His office says the buses will help clean up the air and improve the health of Londoners by reducing the level of harmful nitrogen oxide in the air. In addition, they say, passengers will benefit from smoother, quieter journeys due to fewer vibrations and will be able to take advantage of free-to-use USB charging points. .

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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.

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