Real Climate

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Where, at the beginning, there was really only one input parameter (the CO 2 concentration) that needed to be coordinated, the inputs have now broadened to include myriad forcings related to other greenhouse gases, air pollution, land surface change, ozone, the sun, volcanoes, irrigation, meltwater etc. 27791-27792, 2020.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 6, 2022

The 2020 fire season subjected half the western U.S. population to a stew of particulate matter and ozone. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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New Scientist

MAY 30, 2024

A 2020 rule that slashed air pollution from ships may have boosted global temperatures sooner than thought, helping to explain why 2023 was so hot

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. The dip in gasoline use in 2020 was due to the reduction in personal vehicle use during the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] In June 2020, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the findings and recommendations of Pennsylvanias 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury report on the unconventional oil and gas industry. penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it approved funding for two Oil City recreation projects from penalties collected for Air Pollution Act violations at the Webco Oil City Plant in Venango County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 3, 2023

Sales of zero-emission vehicles in California have grown considerably since 2020. It’s vital that this transition happens rapidly, both to reduce the amount of harmful air pollution and to limit damaging climate change. To date , more than 1.5 million ZEVs have been sold in California. Source: California Energy Commission.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

When a CO 2 pipeline ruptured in Mississippi in 2020 – releasing 41,000 barrels of CO₂ with enough force to create a 40-foot crater – 300 people were evacuated and 45 people had to be hospitalized. Carbon capture aggravates air pollution. Local responders were not prepared for a CO2 leak.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In 2020, the notoriously industry-friendly Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), along with the industry trade association American Chemistry Council and the firm Huntsman Petrochemical, submitted a petition to the EPA claiming that the work of EPA scientists is suspect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Retiring the Monroe coal plant: DTE’s coal plant in Monroe, Michigan, is one of the largest in the Midwest and the third-highest emitter of power sector carbon pollution in the entire country. In its previous energy plan , which the MPSC approved in 2020, DTE planned to operate Monroe until 2040.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthma attacks, also known as exacerbations, may be triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution, stress, and other physical and environmental factors.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 Whatever way you slice this it implies that CH 4 reductions have an outsize effect on climate, as well as an undeniably positive impact on air pollution, crop yields and public health.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this case, standing and the causal link seem to be an obstacle for the citizens as the judges did not recognize the plaintiffs standing in relation to climate change and carbon dioxide emissions while recognizing the standing for air pollution. Portugal and 32 Other States filed before the European Court of Human Rights in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

EPA has three previous settlements with PES from 2020, one regarding CAA Renewable Fuel Standards, one for compliance issues related to a prior CAA Consent Decree, and the other for recovery of EPA costs related to the refinery’s explosion and fire under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 27, 2020

An observer with access to my high frequency cell phone geotagged data would see the following patterns in my 2020 data; 1. The real action begins if one could access my Amazon Prime data in 2018, 2019 and 2020 as well as my geotagged data. I carry a cell phone with me 98% of the day when I am awake. This suggests that I am geotagged.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Cecil Township is considering an ordinance with a 2,500 foot setback from homes and a 5,000 foot setback from schools and hospitals as recommended in a 2020 Office of Attorney General Grand Jury Report. Read more here. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, Hurricane Laura (2020) resulted in a two-week disruption at the Sabine Pass LNG export facility but well over a month at Cameron LNG, the latter of which was sidelined by an accumulation of incidents, including to external supplies of electricity as well as required repairs and dredging to the associated shipping channel.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants. By Lydia Larsen In 2020, an international rule went into effect that sharply reduced the amount of sulfur allowed in ship fuel.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

That system includes Pennsylvanias 2025 Trail of the Year, the Path of the Flood Trail in Johnstown, as well as the 49 -mile Ghost Town Trail , designated Trail of the Year in 2020. The sector provides 11 percent of all jobs in Pennsylvania and contributes about 30 percent of the Commonwealths carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution. The current carbon-based energy system has serious downsides.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. Across the US data center energy use grew 66% from 2020 to 2023, from 90 billion kilowatthours to 150 billion kilowatthours. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Host a webinar series to STEM the Vote In order to bring scientific research and data into discussions on political concerns we organized a STEM the Vote series of webinars focused on the top voter concerns of the 2020 election. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

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Acoel

AUGUST 17, 2021

As I noted in my 2020 blog post, my father was a veterinarian, and as a kid I had the “opportunity” to visit large dairy and beef cattle farms and pig farms, as well as slaughterhouses, and thus I got to know the commercial agriculture industry pretty well. The post Agricultural Air Pollution: A Brief Reprise appeared first on ACOEL.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. blowdowns and blowouts), which we now know not only contains methane, but also Hazardous Air Pollutants and other chemicals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

EN: Ethylene oxide is just one of 188 hazardous air pollutants the EPA regulates, and the agency typically regulates them in isolation—despite the fact that people are exposed to multiple toxins. Like commercial sterilizers, they emit the gas into the air. Is there a fundamental problem with the way the EPA calculates risk?

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MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s latest rulemaking regulating Hazardous Air Pollutant (“HAP”) emissions from coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (“EGUs”) is unlikely to be an exception. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental and public health and safety threats such as gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination,” said Klapkowski.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. gigatons CO2e in 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. For the first time ever, annual sales surpassed one million vehicles , accounting for more than seven percent of new vehicles sold. In December alone, sales hit a new monthly high approaching 12 percent nationally (see figure). Tesla dominates the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. We can achieve a 60% reduction in 2040, and by 85% in 2050, relative to 2020 levels. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

The EPA funding will expand upon an ongoing community-science project launched in 2020 that uses low-cost monitors to provide data for a variety of pollutants associated with unconventional shale gas development and petrochemical-related industries that have rapidly proliferated in Western Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp., Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

In August of 2020 when the last permit fee increase was put in place, DEP estimated it would need the revenue from 2,000 unconventional shale gas permits a year to adequately support the regulatory program for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling. Beaver County. ( Washington County. ( Montour County. ( Fayette County. (

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