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Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to its Portfolio

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,

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Public Comment Period Opens as Ohio EPA Issues Draft Revisions to Reasonably Available Control Technology (“RACT”) Requirements for Control of VOC and NOx Emissions

Vorys Law

Ohio EPA has proposed rules that will require additional Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emission controls for certain manufacturing and industrial operations located in the Cincinnati and Cleveland 2015 ozone nonattainment areas.

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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

ESA

ESA and other scientific organizations endorsed a similar resolution from Duckworth, Hirono and Vice President Kamala Harris introduced during the 116 th Congress in April 2020. The event, originally scheduled for June 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Grace Meng (D-NY) introduced a similar resolution ( H.Res.

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