Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 2, 2022
Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 4, 2023
Trucks and buses on California’s roads and highways are responsible for the majority of lung-damaging fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions, and a sizable amount of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as well. Last November, the California Energy Commission approved $1.7
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 19, 2023
The current draft of the ACF rule was released in late March and made several changes to the version that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) heard back in October 2022. An electric commercial fleet vehicle spotted in San Francisco, 2022. What’s in the proposal? There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
million registered vehicles, they contribute 39 percent of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, 48 percent of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and 21 percent of climate-changing emissions from all on-road vehicles in the state. pic.twitter.com/qL1U03CIxz — Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 (@kevxshen) August 2, 2022 Can the grid handle it?
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. Emissions which create smog and impact human health can also be mitigated; sulfur oxides can be reduced by 89% and nitrogen oxides by 78%. Information for this figure was taken from Dunn et al.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 14, 2022
Switching to these zero- and low-emission fuels helps lower levels of many air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up our climate. Posted: April 14, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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