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What is Ethylene Oxide? Answers to Your Questions about the Cancer-Causing Chemical

Union of Concerned Scientists

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). 2020 ), many others do not. 2021 ; Knutson et al.

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Senate Hearing Finds No Definition Or Standard For ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Natural Gas; PA Producers Already Below One RS Threshold

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of adopting rulemakings under the federal Clean Air Act that will require natural gas infrastructure operators to more carefully monitor methane emissions and develop plans to meet new emission limits. Applegate noted the U.S. Read more here - supplemental EPA rule.

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Late Night Road Dumping: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Be Dumped On Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads; DEP Expected To Provide Update At April 24 Meeting

PA Environment Daily

A 2020 Penn State study formally concluded there were not a lot of differences between conventional and unconventional shale gas wastewater, according to Dr. William Burgos. These 4,359 owners own 34,455 wells-- 34% of the conventional wells required to file these reports.

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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. Between 1990 and 2020, national concentrations of ozone were reduced by 25 percent, but this progress is eroding. From 2000 to 2020, national PM 2.5 Internal combustion vehicles are largely to blame, since PM 2.5

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit.

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Ripe for Disaster Declarations: Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2020, a study in the journal Environmental Epidemiology determined that 5,600 deaths a year were attributable to heat from 1997 to 2006, eight times higher than federal figures. Such smoke is not covered by the Clean Air Act , and there is growing evidence that it is eroding decades of gains in the nation’s air quality under the act.