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Will EPA Follow the Science and Protect Us from Ozone Pollution?

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’

PA Environment Daily

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5

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EPA’s Shifting Guidance on Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Defenses in State Implementation Plans and Its Effect in Louisiana

The Energy Law Blog

This most recent action revokes the EPA guidance issued nearly a year earlier in October 2020, and it readopts the agency’s prior SSM policy for SIPs which was published on June 12, 2015. 2015 SSM SIP Policy. 33840 (June 12, 2015). While published as a final rule, the 2015 SSM SIP Policy was nonbinding. Johnson , 551 F.3d

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

HumanNature

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 Take the Arctic Circle, a region that contributes around 10% of global black carbon emissions but whose emissions are responsible for 30% of the warming effects in the region (Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program 2015). March 26, 2014. link] Brook Robert D.,

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Some Chicagoans Wary of Lead Pipe Replacement

Circle of Blue

From 2015 to 2020, the lead levels in some Chicago neighborhoods were as high as those in Flint, Michigan during their devastating water crisis that started in 2014. An industrial corridor wraps around the south and west sides, and the neighborhood suffers from disproportionate levels of air pollution from nearby manufacturing.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution. In 2015, he continued to push for a fossil fuel-free lifestyle by adding geothermal energy to his home as well.