PA Environment Daily
APRIL 26, 2024
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on a proposed declaration of an Exceptional Air Quality Event due to 2023 wildfires from Canada and New Jersey causing elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds impacting ozone pollution in Pennsylvania.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 10, 2023
The department, in a civil action , is seeking penalties and cleanup costs from Norfolk Southern following the derailment of a company train on February 3, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. News Briefs Air Pollution Proposal The U.S. The EPA will respond to the petition by August 15, 2023. By the Numbers 9.2
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2024
Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. Meanwhile, a 2023 study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that as little as 0.2 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States, comparable to the risk posed to children by secondhand smoke.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. Meanwhile, residents and rescue crews continued to feel sick, despite assurances from officials that the air pollution posed no health threat.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. DR: California hit a new milestone for EV sales midway through 2023: One in four new passenger vehicles sold in in the state from April through June was a plug-in car, truck, or SUV. percent in 2021.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
In just the first half of 2023, over 670,000 EVs were sold with over 80 percent of those fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs ). From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
page D-6 ] The Budget Book says in FY 2022-23 Shell received $5 million in tax subsidies; in FY 2023-24 Shell will get $60.9 barrel) for the period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2042. million on the Shell Petrochemical Plant and associated pipeline for repeated air pollution and construction violations.
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