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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 airpollution and water pollution. The current carbon-based energy system has serious downsides.
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Since its inception, the report has effectively heightened the awareness of some hazardous airpollutants, and engaged the public, media, advocates, and policymakers in the ongoing fight against airpollution. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022.
The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful airpollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogenoxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.
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6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogenoxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). That amount, however, is less than what Ohio households have already paid in coal subsidies since January 2020. Ohioans pay for OVEC losses.
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