A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will take almost four years to complete, with preparatory works and trials already underway and its conclusion scheduled for the second half of 2025. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics vol. 19 7511 (2022). [2] 7 (2021).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

On March 21, 2025 surveillance cameras caught the latest incident of conventional oil and gas wastewater being dumped on a section of a dirt road paved with tar and stone chips at about 9:25 p.m. Read more here. Read more here. These 4,359 owners own 34,455 wells-- 34% of the conventional wells required to file these reports.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

1 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Lottery For 2025 Festival & Glow & Know Campouts Will Start January 1 Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

. -- York Dispatch: Groups Take Proposed Susquehanna River Pump-Storage Hydroelectric Decision To Federal Court -- York Daily Record: Why The Drought In York County Could Get Worse In The Coming Months -- WillowGroveNow.com: DEP To Conduct Soil Testing At Site Of SPS Technologies Industrial Fire In Montgomery County -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Posted: March 16, 2025] PA Environment Digest Acre Wildfire Near Popular Trail At Codorus -- TribLive: Under Pressure: Water Flow Issues Can Cripple Firefighters Who Rely On Patchwork Of Unregulated Hydrants -- PA Dept. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Here are 141 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

billion tons of carbon, which will all stay in the atmosphere. If the House flips in November as expected, that means no new federal legislation until 2025, but there’s obviously a chance that at some point between 2025 and 2030, the Democrats might regain control and pass something. But it’s actually worse than that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A dangerous blueprint and an alternative vision Project 2025, the radical blueprint for a future administration from the Heritage Foundation and the 100+ organizations on the project advisory board, began garnering more public attention after Taraji P.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. Project 2025 takes aim at all those protections. Project 2025 takes aim at grants, as well. It does me.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 million deaths globally (Cohen et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee -- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

1 [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services Release New Guidebook For PA Municipalities On Development Of Large-Scale Solar Facilities; Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

Conventional well owners challenged the regulations in court and did not have to comply with the requirement to submit a compliance report until a settlement with DEP in April required them to submit their first report by June 1, 2025. Read more here. Only 27 conventional facility owners submitted reports in June 2024 as required.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2025

Agencies have until mid-April to draw up and submit their plans to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)meaning straight into the hands of OMB Administrator Russell Vought , chief architect of the most radical, unlawful, unconstitutional elements of Project 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 5, 2025

It felt normal to check the weather app on my phone, but something new for me was also checking the air quality. I was pregnant at the time, which meant I was more vulnerable to heat and air pollution. Taking care of your mental health is as important as your physical health.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 The science advisors recommended that the EPA revisit how they treat wildfire-related air pollution, given the increase in the number and severity of wildfires due to climate change. Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% increase to $9.56

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Project 2025 , the blueprint organized by the Heritage Foundation to guide this White House, calls for an update to the endangerment finding. Other recent EPA appointees who also contributed to Project 2025 (which President Trump disavowed during the presidential campaign ) are Scott Mason and Justin Schwab.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Project 2025 , the blueprint organized by the Heritage Foundation to guide this White House, calls for an update to the endangerment finding. Other recent EPA appointees who also contributed to Project 2025 (which President Trump disavowed during the presidential campaign ) are Scott Mason and Justin Schwab.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency that researches and reports on timely weather patterns, climate science, and oceanic activity, told its employees to review any existing grants that help fund external climate research for impermissible terms like climate science, environmental quality, and pollution.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all. 1816 & H.R. This definition prohibits the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2025

Heres what else is going on… Good news Defending science: More than 200 US-based scientists joined forces and participated in a powerful 100-hour-long Weather and Climate Livestream protesting cuts to funding for atmospheric science and calling out potential risks to weather forecasts. hotter than pre-industrial times.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The same young patients who worry about how border policy changes could affect their families are also the demographic research shows will be most vulnerable to climate change and, she said, statistically least able to manage difficult or unplanned pregnancies — which can be complicated by related hazards like air pollution and heat waves.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

(Certain electric vehicle and prevailing wage and apprenticeship rules, which were finalized in May and June, respectively, may be more vulnerable to rollback by the Congressional Review Act in January 2025, depending on the composition of the new House of Representatives and the date on which Congress ends its 2024 session.)

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