A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Andrew Kamau, Kenya’s principal secretary for petroleum and mining, tells me the government aims to expand EV ownership to 5% of all registered vehicles in Kenya by 2025 and to ensure all new public buildings include EV charging stations. air pollution in Nairobi. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2018

Despite these drawbacks, more and more cities around the globe have started to unveil plans to ditch polluting models running on fossil fuels for cleaner full electric buses. In Europe , the public transportation companies serving Paris and its surrounding cities announced that they will make their fleet zero emission by 2025.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. By making historic investments in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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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. It contains three times as much as the 830 billion tonnes found in the atmosphere, and 240 times as much as the 10 billion tonnes emitted by fossil fuel burning every year.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2892 ) Air Quality Permits -- EQM Gathering OPCO LLC - Callisto Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Morris Twp., Greene County. ( Butler County. ( McKean County. ( Washington County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

-- PennLive: Here’s How PA Could Become A Huge Player In Lithium Mining [Oil & Gas Wastewater] -- Meadville Tribune Guest Essay: Abandoned Conventional Well Plugging Grant Program Is Opportunity To Work Collaboratively With Oil & Gas Industry To Benefit The Environment - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Don Ritter Want to have a positive impact on issues like this? Tell your Senate and House members they need to act to protect and restore Pennsylvania’s environment and support the tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians who do-- not slide backwards.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognizing the environmental and public health risks posed by methane, in January 2015, the Obama administration set a goal of reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. Thus, in EPA’s view, the methane NSPS cannot be applied to transmission and storage facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring. EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. It is made up of $4.75

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 These air pollutants are commonly associated with respiratory diseases such as asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and lung cancer.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. million electric cars in use by 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Report Harrisburg Area’s Air Quality Is Among Worst On East Coast -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Harrisburg, Lancaster Get F Grades For Air Pollution In American Lung Assn. Ranks Pittsburgh Area Among Nation’s Most Polluted -- American Lung Assn. Report -- TribLive: American Lung Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

To Host Electronics Waste Recycling Event April 27 In Schuylkill County -- Independence Conservancy Holds Community Tire Collections In Allegheny, Beaver Counties Starting April 27 [PaEN] -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Allegheny CleanWays April 27 Event Needs Help To Clear Debris From Stormwater Grates -- Asbury Woods Environmental Center In Erie (..)

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on February 5, 2020 in the appeals in California local governments’ climate change cases against fossil fuel companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs. How cool is that?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Chester County Commissioners Adopt New Climate Action Plan -- ReadingE: Muhlenberg Twp. Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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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.

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