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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

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Indirect Source Rules: An Emerging Route Toward Clean Freight

Union of Concerned Scientists

In our current fossil-fueled freight system, the cost for convenience spans far beyond membership fees for expedited deliveries. Between 2010 and 2021, not only did the frequency of new warehouse construction rise, but the size of these new warehouses increased by nearly 150 percent compared to the norm.

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Diesel is the Reason for the Sneezin’: Cleaner Holiday Deliveries are on the Horizon

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

They accounted for most of the failed generating capacity in a number of recent extreme weather events, including Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, according to Gas Malfunction , a new Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issue brief. First, there’s air pollution.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Clean Energy Law

One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045

Science & Climate

by UC Davis News and Media Relations | April 21, 2021. A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report today to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions.

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Fossil Fuels Must Go: Re-inventing US Transportation

Union of Concerned Scientists

To adjust the focus of this picture a little closer, just our passenger cars and light trucks contribute to a whopping 58 percent of total transportation emissions, placing our car-centric society in the fossil fuel spotlight. percent in 2021 to about 16 percent in 2050.