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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

For example, inclusion of a non-chemical stressor—higher daily temperatures—was considered in the scientific document used to support the ozone standard , since there is evidence that exposure to higher daily temperatures together with ozone exposure is associated with higher mortality. But we cannot stop there.

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DEP Posted 92 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In March 8 PA Bulletin

PA Environment Daily

PA Bulletin, page 2008 ) PA Bulletin - March 8, 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 92 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the March 8 PA Bulletin - pages 1930 to 2022. The revised permit would increase the acreage by 1.3 Luzerne County. ( Received Aug.

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EQB Meets June 14 On Revised Final Regulation Reducing Methane Emissions From Just Unconventional (Shale Gas) Wells, Facilities; Working On Conventional Reg.

PA Environment Daily

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

Instead, environmentalists were mainly concerned about the ozone layer, nuclear meltdown and chemical industrial pollution, the erosion of biodiversity and population explosion. In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act.

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D.C. Circuit Vacates EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

The Energy Law

Circuit’s remand in 2008 of EPA’s Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which was EPA’s prior attempt at implementing the good neighbor provision. CSAPR would have required many states, including Louisiana and Texas, to reduce power plant emissions of SO 2 and NO x , particularly during the summer ozone season.

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EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions

PA Environment Daily

The letter also said, EPA “rescinds the offset sanctions which took effect on June 16, 2022 as a result of EPA’s November 16, 2020 Finding of Failure to Submit (FFS) (85 FR 72963), which found that Pennsylvania failed to submit a SIP revision addressing the 2016 Oil & Gas CTG for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.”

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EQB Adopts Part I Of Final Regulation Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; DEP Documents 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities

PA Environment Daily

the Department will develop a separate rulemaking for the RACT requirements for sources of VOC emissions installed at conventional well sites” since the regulations covering oil and gas facilities are being promulgated to attain both the federal 2008 and 2015 ozone standard. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.