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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule

Acoel

The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025. These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant. The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5 micrometers or less.

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Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards

Law Columbia

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. In many of the states challenging EPA’s emissions regulations, local governments are leading the fight against climate change.

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Policy News: October 10, 2022

ESA

EPA determines that most Chesapeake Bay watershed states are not on track to meet 2025 pollution reduction commitments. White House : The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council on Environmental Quality are requesting input to inform the development of a U.S. International. Scientific Community. Executive Branch.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

BRUSSELS — The world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, but emissions need to peak by 2025, the U.N.’s Even 2 degrees becomes unlikely without a peak by 2025. White House: The Office of Science and Technology released a new report , Opportunities and Actions for Ocean Science and Technology.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

Along with this assessment, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Domestic Climate Policy lead a report to the National Climate Task Force on opportunities for greater deployment of nature-based solutions. ESC – FY 2023 Appropriations Statement (March 28, 2022).

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ESA Policy News: May 15, 2023

ESA

USGS : The agency, in collaboration with Canadian and Mexican agencies and the Udall Foundation, is preparing a two-year (2023–2025) regional assessment of biodiversity and climate change, culminating in the first-ever assessment report addressing these two challenges together for the United States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. territories.

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