Brag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Comments are due February 21, 2023. The Need for Additional Guidance: FTC also seeks comment on the need for additional guidance regarding claims such as “compostable,” “degradable,” ozone-friendly,” “organic,” and “sustainable,” as well as those regarding energy use and energy efficiency.

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Real Climate

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For those simulations, the MSU/SSU data is archived and available and was discussed recently in Casas et al (2023). Density plots of the ensemble TMT trends for different versions of the GISS Model, compared to UAH and RSS products (Fig 3b from Casas et al, 2023).

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Real Climate

MARCH 16, 2023

This ensemble samples model structural variability (vertical resolution, model top, interactive composition) and some aspects of forcing uncertainty (notably for aerosols and ozone), as well as the initial-condition (‘weather’) variability we are used to seeing. As above, the GISS ensemble diverges slightly from the observations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Posted: November 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest The CCAP will build on the PCAP to include a broad list of GHG reduction strategies that could be used in Pennsylvania and include analyses that will help assess the benefits and impacts of these strategies. For more information, visit DEP’s Priority Climate Action Plan webpage.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

28 Public Info Sessions [PaEN] -- Reading Eagle: Contaminated Land Around Berks Battery Plant Site Proposed For Federal Superfund List -- AP: EPA Delays New Ozone Pollution Standards Until After 2024 Election -- PA Capital-Star: PA Cong. 24 Features Headliner Bands [Posted: September 10, 2023]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Of State Election Results Website -- DEP Invites Comments On Draft 2024 Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment Report -- DEP 2024 Water Quality Report Shows 28,820 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (34%) - An Increase From 27,886 In 2022 [PaEN-10.24.23] -- Center For American Progress: LNG Natural Gas Exports Raise Natural Gas Prices (..)

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

On December 7, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disapproved the state implementation plan (SIP) revisions for the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area that Louisiana set forth in response to EPA’s 2015 SIP Call rule. 85112 (December 7, 2023). 85112 (December 7, 2023). LAC 33:III.2201.K

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Acoel

JUNE 27, 2023

Posted on Jun 27, 2023 by Seth Jaffe Earlier this month, the EPA Clean Air Science Advisory Committee provided EPA its review of EPA’s Policy Assessment for the Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone. Instead, CASAC recommends a significantly lower ozone NAAQS of 55-60 ppb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the April 22 PA Bulletin -- -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 22 PA Bulletin (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25 The grant application period closed on October 12, 2023, and UCS is working with partners to consider how we can make sure the funding reaches the intended target communities.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The two in Pennsylvania are-- -- Drexel University, Philadelphia: The overarching objective of this research project is to identify community stressors and resilience-enhancing assets that shape relationships between climate change-related exposures [heat, ozone, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)] and children’s health.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the February 25 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Comments due March 8. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed 2024 Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emission Limits for Nonelectric Generating Units.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

During the conference, 2023 was declared the hottest year on record. Each pod replicated different pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide. Climate change intersects with physical health in myriad ways. I was wrong.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of the Land Application of Manure Supplement to the Manure Management for Environmental Protection Manual. [ Bucks County. ( Monroe County impacting Red Run (High Quality) and Exceptional Value wetlands. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

6. -- Governor’s Office published Catalog Of Nonregulatory [Technical Guidance] Documents for each agency in August 5 PA Bulletin. -- Fish and Boat Commission published notices in August 5 PA Bulletin-- -- Additions To List Of Class A Wild Trout Streams -- Additions To Classification of Wild Trout Streams Meetings August 15-- Agenda Posted.

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Brag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Hutton On August 3, 2023, the U.S. Comments are due October 2, 2023. Bergeson and Carla N. The proposed rule would define “sustainable products and services” as products and services that are subject to and meet statutory purchasing program requirements or other U.S.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Stephen Gidiere As far as I know, this headline is false. Or: “Write a history of EPA’s regulation of ozone.” But is it so hard to imagine? The resulting predictive analytics showed a 47% improvement of identifying violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

DEP responded immediately to the well control emergency, maintained a 24/7 onsite presence for 15 days, and continued to expend significant resources to investigate and oversee remedial activities at the site throughout 2023. VOCs are a precursor to ozone, which is known to cause adverse health effects.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

NOx is a contributor to the formation of summer ozone, and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 Posted: January 24, 2023] PA Environment Digest The locomotives at issue in this settlement burn diesel fuel which produces significant emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine particulate matter.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. Posted: February 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the November 6 PA Bulletin it is suspending the enforcement of the California Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions Control Program in Pennsylvania through July 31, 2023. The suspension means the federal standards for heavy-duty diesel vehicles and engines will apply in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gasoline and diesel vehicles generate 47 percent of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania, contributing to ground-level ozone. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) goes into effect on January 1, 2023. A key critique of California's Cap & Trade program has been that it hasn’t reduced health-harming criteria pollutants , including carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particulates.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

December 19, 2023. The previous post covered significant water quality legislation enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2023. This post briefly summarizes other 2023 environmental legislation. ’s current ozone SIP based on vehicle emission inspections in 19 N.C. AIR QUALITY. A new statute section, G.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

CARB’s most recent Environmental Analysis for the rule estimates that the ACF will reduce MHDV emissions of ozone-forming nitrogen oxides by more than 60 percent and lung-damaging fine particulates by around 35 percent in 2050. ACF delivers meaningful benefits The ACF will deliver significant health and economic benefits to the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. Then there is the 2023 ruling in Sackett v EPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These fleets, those with more than 10 tractor trucks, are responsible for the lion’s share of emissions: about 85 percent of fine particulate and ozone-forming nitrogen oxide emissions and just under 90 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from all California tractors (see the pie charts below).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses' [PaEN] [Posted: November 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Million For Environmental Justice Projects In PA Communities [PaEN] [Posted: October 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PennEnviroScreen DEP’s Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy uses the online PennEnviroScreen tool to define environmental justice areas using 32 indicators.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Guest Post by MJ Riches , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Wildfire smoke billowing from the Rocky Mountains or clouds at sunset? Photo credit Jienan Li, Colorado State University Do Orange Skies Spell Demise? But why is the sky orange?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

To be fair, the detailed attribution for the trends in SW and LW radiative fluxes over the last twenty years are still somewhat in flux (Schmidt et al, 2023) , but not by that much! Clauser however takes that number, removes 80 and 20 W/m 2 for atmospheric absorption by ozone (!!) Tallapragada, P.C. Taylor, and T.

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Real Climate

APRIL 23, 2023

2023) came out in March, and with it the availability of not only updated TMT and TLS records (which had existed in the version 4.1), but also a new TLT (Temperature of the Lower Troposphere) record (from 1981 to present). At the beginning of the year , we noted that the NOAA-STAR group had produced a new version (v5.0)

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed and introduced in the late 1980s to serve as replacements for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) primarily used in the air conditioning, refrigeration, aerosols, fire suppression, and foam blowing industries. But now, the EHS-Dashboard TM , developed by Capaccio.

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