Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

NASA satellites have been collecting data for years on nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide. As a result, the EPA used satellite data in their public report on clean air trends for the first time in 2016,” says Holloway. Her interests are environmental health, health communication, and science journalism.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on toxic air and water emissions for a large number of industrial facilities across the US, refineries are the 10 th most toxic industry , in a toxicity ranking list with over 200 grades. Refineries are among the most toxic industries in this country.

Ground-Level Ozone

Vermont Law

AUGUST 3, 2015

The Court has a history of groundbreaking decisions in the realm of environmental law and the lesser-publicized. Environmental Protection Agency. 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.

Clean Air Act

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] US Environmental Protection Agency.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. If finalized, these critical, commonsense standards will protect workers and communities, maintain and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S.

Natural Gas

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Deeper into the 1960s, Richard Nixon signed the executive order creating the Environmental Protection Agency. Although their remit was (and remains) one of environmental health and public safety, a number of laws gave them the power to take action to ensure conservation of lands and secure their safety for the ecological environment.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

Fossil Fuels

Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb.

Regulations

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. The brief also highlighted the public health and environmental justice concerns that tailpipe emissions raise in cities. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

Clean Air Act

ESA

MAY 17, 2021

The Biden administration is currently reviewing the Trump administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which replaced the Obama administration’s Waters of the U.S. Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency released its Climate Change Indicators report for the first time since 2016.

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