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JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. County of Fresno (2018) 6 Cal.8 8 th 502, why it was not feasible to correlate the level of the project’s air emissions to specific human health impacts from the project.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

More Background Since March 2011, the state Department of Health has been attempting to document health complaints of residents initially in unconventional oil and gas drilling areas and maintains a Health Complaints Registry. These include contamination of surface or groundwater, air pollution or soil degradation.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018. Gas plants are also big industrial facilities that create air pollution for surrounding communities. Climate change, air pollution, and environmental racism are just a few.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And how are they linked to wildfire, air pollution and other hazards? In his book Making the Modern World , the Czech-Canadian energy researcher Vaclav Smil estimates that China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century. Where are they most likely? How extreme might such occurrences be?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

million gallons) of liquid waste and 416,248 tons of solid waste between January 2011 and April 2021. The remaining 173 (27%) violations were for various other shortcomings—most issued for improper handling of waste materials. In the Lycoming Creek watershed, operators reported generating 9,064,377 barrels (380.7

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. Bay Area Air Quality Management District, 62 Cal.4th

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. Because the Pigging Station was built prior to 2018 it is not covered by an Air Quality Program permit from DEP. However, they only apply to facilities constructed or modified after August 8, 2018. Click Here for technical guidance.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The people of Clairton, Pennsylvania breathe in some of the most toxic, cancer-causing industrial air pollution in the nation, thanks to the US Steel Clairton Coke Works Plant, the largest manufacturer of coke (a type of refined coal) in the country. million pounds of toxic chemicals into the community’s air supply.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But coal is already in terminal decline in both the US and the EU, all that is needed is a little push: Bloomberg New Energy Finance has confirmed this month that US coal plant retirements are nearing an all-time high, with at least 16 gigawatts (GW) worth of coal-fired plants already retired in 2018. A moral imperative.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct. Wolf: Proposed EPA Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards To Help Pennsylvanians Breathe Easier, Save Money -- New Conservative Energy Network Poll: 84% Support Govt.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Koch’s Web of Influence by John Farrell (Center for Public Integrity, April 2011). The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right (Center for American Progress Action Fund, April 2011). Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. When it comes to environmental hazards, air pollution is by far the most common, with 90 percent of the world’s 2.2

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

AB 32 directed the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s air pollution regulator, to implement a cap-and-trade program, which went into effect in 2013. [51]. 10, 2018), [link]. [2]. 10, 2018), [link]. [4]. 10, 2018), [link]. [5]. 10, 2018), [link]. [13]. 10, 2018), [link]. [23].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After all, these agencies actions often have a direct impact on how well the public is protected from threats such as climate change impacts, natural disasters, unsafe food and drugs, transmissible disease, and air pollution. We also published the results of our 2018 survey in the journal PLoS One in 2020.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) 452044/2018 (N.Y. The modified rule would have applied nationwide, with exceptions for Mexico’s three largest cities, where air pollution is of particular concern. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Ground-level ozone pollution is a nasty air pollutant that can cause lung problems and asthma attacks. And it is a big deal when CASAC weighs in on the EPA’s scientific and policy reports for a pollutant such as ground-level ozone. Here’s how the process is supposed to work.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all. The court determined that the U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

and indeed the world, face a number of pressing environmental issues, most notably climate change, but other threats to the environment remain, including contaminated drinking water, air pollution, and ancient wastewater treatment systems. 29, 2011), [link]. [30]. If you believe that it is a crucial mistake for the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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