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New Environmental Laws Focus on Public Health

Legal Planet

Despite the wide range of issues the legislature was contending with, many innovative environmental protection issues advanced, especially those aimed at tackling environmental health challenges in our most disadvantaged communities. Stove emissions, especially from gas stoves, are associated with increased respiratory disease.

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Sen. Culver Commends Progress Extinguishing Wilburton Coal Bank Fire In Columbia County

PA Environment Daily

Environmental Protection Agency install air quality monitors to detect levels of carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and particulates. Posted: February 24, 2025] PA Environment Digest Culver in response to resident concerns, including impacts on air quality. Click Here for Sen. Culvers announcement.

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DEP, Local Partners To Hold 5 Outreach Sessions For Input Into Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives Starting Dec. 4

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission and Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will host a series of five public outreach sessions inviting comments on Priority Climate Action Plan initiatives.

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House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill To Require DEP To Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Certain New Sources Of Pollution On Already Impacted Communities

PA Environment Daily

This legislation would give the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection the authority to designate environmental justice areas in communities with increased pollution burdens and vulnerable populations. However, that is not always the case in practice, especially in burdened communities, said Rep.

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Team PA & Clean Air Task Force Convene Leaders To Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Of Industrial Decarbonization; DOE Provides Update On Decarbonization Investments In PA

PA Environment Daily

The forum included keynotes by senior leaders from the US Department of Energy and the Department of Environmental Protection, who provided an update on Pennsylvania’s implementation of $400 million in federal investment to address pollution from small, medium, and large industrial facilities through the RISE PA grant program.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

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). These are the criteria air pollutants, namely PM 2.5 , ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and lead.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon. link] US Environmental Protection Agency. March 26, 2014.