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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025.

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

HumanNature

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” April 19, 2016. Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. link] Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program. link] Brook Robert D.,

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. jointly committed. Clean Power Plan.

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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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Air Regulators Tackle Trucking at Southern California Warehouses

Clean Energy Law

The rule includes a sunset date, whereby the WPCO requirement expires after both an EPA finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the federal 2015 ozone standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) and a CARB finding that all SCAQMD air basins have attained the state ozone standard of 70 ppb. Further Actions.

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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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The Dirty Truth of Michigan v. EPA

Vermont Law

that by 2016 the rule would save up to 11,000 lives due to premature deaths and provide up to $90 billion in health benefits associated with meeting the new standards for air toxics. A lot was at stake for EPA when this case went before the Court on March 25, 2015. But, the MATS regulations would reduce mercury emissions by about.