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Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Another Study Identifies Health Risks During Unconventional Oil & Gas Production Even For Those Living Within 1,000 Feet Or More Of Wells

PA Environment Daily

By Meagan Weisner, PhD , Senior Scientist, Healthy Communities and Paige Varner, PhD , Scientist, Healthy Communities A new study from Environmental Defense Fund finds that even oil and gas production that uses the most stringent emissions reductions technologies poses health risks to nearby residents.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

It presents air pollution data at the county-level for two pollutants, deadly fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and ground-level ozone. is emitted directly from the tailpipes of gasoline and diesel vehicles, while ozone and even more PM 2.5 and ozone pollution 1. Internal combustion vehicles are largely to blame, since PM 2.5

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Indirect Source Rules: An Emerging Route Toward Clean Freight

Union of Concerned Scientists

Although warehouses themselves are often not significant sources of air pollution, they attract high concentrations of heavy-duty trucks, which are the nations largest source of nitrogen oxides, a key contributor to ground-level ozone pollution.

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Grid Experts Weigh in on EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan for NOx

Legal Planet

EPA’s 2023 “Good Neighbor Plan” for nitrous oxides is currently the object of multiple lawsuits, some challenging the details of EPA’s federal implementation plans, other challenging EPA’s initial decision to reject state implementation plans.

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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb in 2023, with typical reductions of 0.1

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The Feds

PA Environment Daily

Articles and NewsClips about federal actions impacting Pennsylvania-- -- EPA Proposes To Add Area Surrounding Former Exide Technologies Laureldale Facility, Berks County To Superfund List; Sept. 24 Features Headliner Bands [Posted: September 10, 2023]

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Clean Energy Law

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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