Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5: A subset of these particles, called PM2.5,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP’s Air Quality regulations require unconventional shale gas, conventional, pipeline, storage and other oil and gas facilities to report the amount of air pollution they are emitting from their facilities since 2012 and do so regularly under Title V and other Air Quality permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Read more here.] Health exposures can also occur from spills or leaks.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

DEP was notified Wise passed away on May 16, 2012. Ronald Wise - Violations: 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells March 12, 2025 notices of violation sent to the owner of record for the Vanderzer 2, 3, 5 and Ron Wise 1 conventional wells in Summit Township, Butler County were returned in the mail. DEP inspection report example.

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2025 Natural Gas 2026 Regulations 71

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the Endangerment Finding Two requirements must be met before a substance can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant. Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. ” EPA then treated that as a single pollutant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Attacks on the Endangerment Finding and EPAs Clean Air Act authority from industry interests are nothing new. These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v. Court of AppealsD.C.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. As of 2017, some $3.4

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in Clean Air Act regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. EPA (2012). As the court noted, the Clean Air Act only requires a finding that the air pollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

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2009 Clean Air Act Climate Change Air Pollution 59

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. The final rule also adopted an interpretation of Clean Air Act Section 111 that required, as a predicate to establishing NSPS, a determination by EPA that a pollutant causes or contributes significantly to dangerous air pollution. National Review, Inc. July 22, 2021).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. Carbon dioxide (CO. is the inescapable byproduct of carbon energy use. to refocus its environmental and energy policies back toward the extraction and combustion of as much carbon as possible, and accelerate humanity’s journey to the unknown world of rising seas and increasing temperatures, what can you do?

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