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Changes to California’s Electric Truck Proposal Could Reap Huge Climate and Air Quality Gains

Union of Concerned Scientists

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets. and NOx emissions reductions from tractor trucks while still only regulating around 13 percent of California tractor fleets.

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DEP, DCNR, PennDOT Employees Recognized With Governor’s Award For Excellence For Environmental Projects

PA Environment Daily

Tom Wolf recognized employees from the departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Environmental Protection and Transportation with the Governor’s Award for Excellence for environment-related projects. Read more here. ] [Posted: May 20, 2022] PA Environment Digest On May 20, Gov.

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

Circle of Blue

September 20, 2022 . After the 2014 shutdown Toledo spent $53 million to install an ozone treatment system at the city’s drinking water plant to safeguard customers from algal toxins, said Andrew McClure, the plant’s administrator. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue. Keith Schneider.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 9.30.23

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy [PaEN] -- AP: Gov. 1-7; PA Climate Convergence Oct. 23-24 In State College [PaEN] -- PA Forestry Assn. Annual Symposium & Awards Program Set For Nov.

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PA Environmental Council: Clean Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Can Be Part Of A Comprehensive Decarbonization Strategy: Responsibly Deployed With Environmental Integrity, Accountability And Equity

PA Environment Daily

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. Comments submitted to the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee in August of this year by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recommend a life-cycle standard that is no less stringent than 2.5

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approves Water Resource Development Act of 2022. The White House has also published a blog and a fact sheet about the three initiatives and their importance to our efforts to better understand, account for, and find solutions in nature. Executive Branch. 7580 & S.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

ESA

This was the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event in-person since 2019 and the first GSPA Hill visits since Congress passed the Chips and Science Act with bipartisan support in fall 2022. Sound ecological science data clearly shows the vital role of wetlands for nature and to also protect human health and property.

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