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Project 2025’s Assault on EPA, Human Health and the Environment Must Never Be Put into Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Now Accepting Applications For EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grants In EPA Region 3

PA Environment Daily

The deadline for the 1-year award is April 20, 2025. Applications will be accepted on a rolling process. The submission deadline for the 2-year awards is November 30, 2024. Funding is provided through the federal Inflation Reduction Act.

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Federal Water Tap, April 24: Pennsylvania’s Pollution Failures Targeted in Proposed Chesapeake Bay Settlement

Circle of Blue

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We By the Numbers $27 Billion : Size of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a pot of money included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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DEP Set To Receive $2 Billion+ In Federal Funds Over Next Decade+ For Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Clean Energy, Climate Resiliency, Clean Water

PA Environment Daily

“So, under the IIJA, when it's all said and done, DEP will receive upwards and probably more than $400 million to plug orphan and abandoned wells that are currently leaking methane and hazardous air pollutants into the implement. billion to fund projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “So,

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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too

Union of Concerned Scientists

pollution from vehicles. As currently drafted, any fleet with more than 50 trucks and buses or $50 million in annual revenue would be required to begin transitioning its California fleet to zero-emissions trucks beginning as early as 2025. For example, 10 percent of vehicles added to fleets in “Group 1” in 2025 must be zero-emissions.

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Tightening the Net

Legal Planet

But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. Leaving large residuals would mean continued harms to health from air pollution and continued impacts from fossil fuel extraction and production. Removing 2-5Gt of CO 2 each year is still a big undertaking.

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DEP Blog: Ten Tools To Take On Climate Change In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.