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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs. ppb by 2025.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

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). AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. Malyshev, S.

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Evolving Air Quality Standards

Legal Planet

I am focusing on what are called the primary standards, which are health-based, and on two key pollutants, particulates and ozone, which have the greatest current importance. Ozone Pollution (Smog) Ozone standards are measured in parts per million (ppm) in the air. ppm in 2015. The annual standard started in 1971 at 0.08

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The Problems with the SCOTUS ‘Good Neighbor’ Arguments

Legal Planet

Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. When EPA strengthened the national ozone standard in 2015 based upon updated scientific understanding of ozone’s health harms, it triggered States’ obligation to develop Good Neighbor plans.

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The Rise and Decline of Coal Mining Jobs, 1970-2022

Acoel

EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act for controlling mercury, sulfur dioxide, ozone and other pollutants have contributed to the employment decline. Job losses have accelerated since 2012 with the development of low-cost fracking for natural gas.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Clean Energy Law

In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. In 2015, a total volume of 598.3 billion in 2015. [4]. 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.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The court rejected the argument that claims against the original and 2012 versions of the LCFS were moot, noting that these earlier versions affected how credits were calculated under the 2015 version. The court said recalculation of past credits would be barred by the Eleventh Amendment.

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