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Federal Grants: Duct Tape or Catalyst for Environmental and Climate Justice? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6

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DEP Awards $2.9 Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15

PA Environment Daily

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Climate Commitment Act: A Promise to Washington's Communities

Washington Nature

Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) goes into effect on January 1, 2023. 1 allowance = 1 metric ton of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This marks an important moment, but the work isn’t over yet! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Nature Conservancy in WA (@conserve_wa). What are allowances + offsets?

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California Ready to Take Giant Leap Toward Zero-Emission Trucks

Union of Concerned Scientists

million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Clean Energy Law

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 The District is targeting formal adoption of Proposed Rule 2305 at its May 1, 2020, Governing Board meeting. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures. Endnotes. [1]

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U.S. Senate Hearing: Energy, Environmental Impacts Of Cryptocurrency Mining In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Click Here for a copy of Altenburg’s complete testimony with footnotes.