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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Gas plants and infrastructure emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion, which degrade local air quality.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
Since its founding in 2017, the US Climate Alliance —a coalition of states committed to meeting the goals of the Paris climate accord—has grown to 24 states and one US territory. Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants in alliance states drop 88 percent and 77 percent respectively by 2040.
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
His office says the buses will help clean up the air and improve the health of Londoners by reducing the level of harmful nitrogen oxide in the air. TfL has since 2017 been at work to phase out one of the biggest contributors to air pollution , diesel buses as well as retrofitting older ones with cleaner engines.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 18, 2024
In 2017, approximately 27 percent of households in areas with less than 2,000 people per square mile had just one car. As an example, according to a 2017 study , a Chevy Bolt has 35 moving and wearing parts, while a comparable car, the VW Golf, has 167. cars per household, many households have just one car.
Breezometer
JUNE 21, 2021
A 2017 study attributed an annual €20 billion spent on healthcare in France to six different types of indoor air pollutants like radon, CO, and secondhand smoke. Indoor air pollution is expensive in terms of associated healthcare costs. particles contributed to about 75% of these costs. This type of filter can remove particles of 0.3
Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
This means that greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s gas plants will increase by 375 per cent by 2030 and by more than 600 per cent by 2040, compared to the 2017 level! After greenhouse gas emissions from electricity dropped to a low of 4 Megatonnes, Ontario’s increasing use of fossil gas will lead emissions to rise to 18 Megatonnes.
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